Japan's love affair with jazz is an old one. A unique one. It is home to hundreds of jazz-listening bars and cafés, places where chatting is at best frowned upon, and even forbidden between certain ...
This month Eric Pye toured 6 Jazz Kissas across Tokyo, Japan. Find out what they’re all about. When I visit Japan I have two main goals, besides visiting with friends and family. I lived here for over ...
“Japanese-influenced listening bars” may be the latest, greatest trend in US bar culture, but their high-end sound systems and even more highfalutin aesthetic draw from a much more humble practice: ...
Tokyo Beat Offers a Venue for Show Tunes and Whiskey in Little TokyoThe Opening of Tokyo Beat Means no More Buffets at Oiwake Before Singing “We Are The World”.