Tomoko Matsuoka

Managing Editor & Writer

Tomoko Matsuoka is a managing editor and writer for MailMate, Shoeboxed, and a number of online resource libraries. She writes guides on life in Japan and covers Japanese business news, digitalization, and productivity tools and software.

Life in Japan October 6th, 2022

Plastic-Free Tea Bags: Are You Drinking Plastics in Your Japanese Tea?

Learn how to avoid Japan's plastic tea bags. (You should—they have billions of plastic particles in them.)

Tomoko Matsuoka Managing Editor & Writer

Life in Japan January 12th, 2022

Japan’s Top 10 Bestselling Books in 2021 by Nippan

Get a snapshot of what readers in Japan were buying during Japan’s second pandemic year.

Tomoko Matsuoka Managing Editor & Writer

Business in Japan, Entrepreneurship in Japan, Life in Japan December 27th, 2021

Discover Our Must-Reads of 2021

These are the articles we shortlisted out of the 137 features we published in 2021.

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