trash Trash Cans Are Hard to Find in Tokyo. Here's Why If you spend any time in Tokyo, you are likely to find yourself hunting for something that’s easily found on almost every street corner in a U.S. city — a trash can. As NBCLX storyteller Fernando Hurtado discovered, there are several very good reasons why garbage cans remain scarce in Japan — from terrorism threats to recycling challenges.
Tokyo Olympics We Don't Need Simone Biles to Play Through Pain — Physical or Mental After U.S. gymnast Simone Biles withdrew from a team competition, fans are expressing thanks for the spectacular performances they got to witness over the years. And it started a larger conversation about what we expect of athletes.
1964 olympics 2020 Tokyo Olympics Shares Some Dark Parallels With the 1964 Games Tokyo first hosted the Olympics in 1964, still in the shadow of World World II and the fallout from the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Today, as Tokyo hosts its second Games, there are echoes of those global tragedies — both in the coronavirus pandemic and the 2011 nuclear disaster at Fukushima. NBCLX storyteller Chase Cain reports from Tokyo...
food We Ate Ramen, KFC and Japanese McDonald's While Stuck in Quarantine There’s a shrimp filet sandwich, the Ebi Filet-O, only available at Japanese McDonald’s restaurants. Another chain, KFC, has a big presence in the country too…but Japanese dishes like ramen and sushi have been a big draw for journalists covering the Tokyo Olympics. NBCLX Storyteller Fernando Hurtado shows you the food of Japan that was available in quarantine, and his first...
asmr Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir Made the Olympics More Chill with ASMR We love Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir for being big and bold. But the NBC Sports commentators and former Olympians agreed to get really, really quiet for their first ASMR interview with NBCLX storyteller Fernando Hurtado. (And Johnny called it the strangest moment of their lives.)
skateboarding 4 Things I Was Doing at Age 13 That Weren't Winning a Gold Medal in Skateboarding Three teenagers winning an Olympic skateboarding event inspire some self-reflection from a twentysomething.
Olympic fans The Only Fan: Watching the Olympics From a Nearly Empty Stadium Holding the Olympics during a pandemic means lots of empty seats that were supposed to be filled with cheering fans. NBCLX storyteller Chase Cain takes you to Ariake Urban Sports Park in Tokyo, where the first-ever Olympic skateboarding competition was held, to learn what it’s like to be one of the only fans in the Olympic stands — and how...
vending machines Japan's Vending Machine Culture Meets the Reality of Climate Change Dispensing everything from fish to suits, Japan’s 5 million vending machines have made the country the convenience capital of the world. But in recent years, vending machine culture has clashed with the need to reduce plastic waste. NBCLX storyteller Fernando Hurtado reports from Tokyo on the country’s efforts to battle climate change.
tokyo olympic stadium A Behind the Scenes Tour of the Tokyo Olympic Stadium The Tokyo Olympic Stadium’s 68,000 seats won’t be filled during the events this year, so its incredible views will only be appreciated by a limited group. That includes NBCLX storyteller Chase Cain, who got access to take you on a behind the scenes tour — from the floor where the athletes will compete to the nosebleed seats to even its...
Tokyo How Tokyo Became One of the Cleanest Cities in the World Tokyo is one of the busiest and biggest cities in the world. It’s also one of the cleanest. NBCLX storyteller Fernando Hurtado reports from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics about how cleanliness became etched into Japan’s national identity — and how hosting the Olympics in 1964 was a turning point in that evolution.
