We will hold our first city night walk this year in Tokyo with small group. Theme: Light in Old Port Towns and Waterfront AreasThere are many cities and towns in Japan that have developed with ports.  Nagasaki, Kobe, Yokohama, and many othe…

Don’t forget to be online and join us tonight Apr. 21st from 8:00 pm (GMT+8) as we walk through Kampong Glam tonight with Kaoru Mende in Singapore!The season of festivities are here for our Muslim friends and we will join them at Sult…

Architekturwoche Basel (AWB) which contains more than 100 events related architecture will be held from 9-15 May 2022 in Basel, Switzerland.  Lighting Detectives helps night walk program.  Please check AWB official website for more details….

Instagram Live streaming From the lounge of the LPA, the chief, Mr. Mende, and I will talk about our activity plans for 2022 on Instagram Live. Please follow the Tanteidan’s Instagram and stand by.We are welcome to have any questions …

Originally published in 2006 by Kajima Publishing, a revised, digital version was released. This has English text along wiht Japanese text. If you have not read, please visit Amazon web site, and check it out！ Transnational Lighting Detecti…

The salon that reviews the city night walk having been carried out this month will be held online.Please feel free to join us even if you miss the city walk. If you would like to participate, please apply by November 25 (Thu) via Google For…

The annual gathering will be held online. We are planning to make it fun and rich content even online.If you would like to attend, please send us an email by Monday, November 22 to register. The event will be held in Japanese. Sorry… Date a…

Hope the COVID-19 situation in your area has been better.In Japan, the number of PCR-positive people is decreasing day by day, and the cities seem to be getting much more lively again. So we would like to have a small group nightwalk in the…

We had the Lighting Detective’s first live broadcast of a city night walk. The members of the detective who broadcasted from the sight may not have been able to see the other broadcasts. So, We would like to hold another ZOOM salon to revie…

Hope the COVID-19 situation is getting better in your area.Japan chapter is now planning to have small group night walk surveys and broadcast them during this night walk.If you are interested, please check the details below and RSVP from th…

Last year, we asked members to take photos with the theme of “sunrise” and received many submissions.They are all shared on Facebook and Instagram with short write-ups from the photographers. This year, we are looking for the th…

I have already received a number of photos of “Urgent Investigation” that I requested by e-mail last week. Thank you to everyone who sent them. There is still time until the deadline, so please send yours with comments. We fixed…

As for the activity in Japan, we decided to ask members to have a survey under the theme of “recording the situation of the city at night under the state of emergency”. Since it is an activity while being requested to refrain fr…

Now we are posting sunrise photos taken at variety of locations all around the world in our SNS.Pleases send us your sunrise photos!! Instagram Facebook page

The Lighting Detectives in Japan decided to try a city walk in a small group of up to 5 people in different areas in Japan instead of a large number of people in one area.Please apply for one area where you would like to join in the followi…

 We will have the first global remote Lighting Detectives event on 19th June. The event details are below.   Theme: Lighting at home / neighborhood～Share the problems you are facing in quarantine / or working from home.～ -Date: June 19…

Members Only We have been facing very hard time and don’t know when it ends. We planned to walk around the Tsukishima area on May 15, but postponed the event, and decided to have a round table discussion at ZOOM. It will be the first …

Now you can check the video of Transnational Lighting Detectives Forum we did last May in Shenzhen, China. This 10-minute summary video has a lot of contents, from a pre-survey of night walk areas final presentation to the panel discussion….

We will have a children workshop at Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum on March 20th. The main purpose of this workshop is to provide children a chance to appreciate dark at night and traditional Japanese fire place “Irori”. If you are…

Now we are open for committee members to plan night walks in Tokyo this year. If you wish to be a part of the team, please fill out the followings and send E-mail to office@shomei-tanteidan.org by 30 Jan. ●name ●name of company/school ●mail…