Have you heard of the YouTuber who shows how to clean and fillet fish the traditional Japanese way, and gets more than 600,000 followers for...
American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan will headline the this year’s Fuji Rock Festival, the largest outdoor music event in Japan, the show’s official website announced. It...
Above: woodblock print (ukiyo-e) of a yokai called Gashadokuro (餓者髑髏) or starving skeleton by Utagawa Kuniyoshi. If you are living in Japan or just...
Spring has officially begun, despite a rare snowfall in Tokyo in late January, as the Meteorological Society declared the start of cherry blossom season on...
In days past, Japanese people enjoyed different types of cherry blossoms native to different regions throughout the country. The beautiful blossoms of the indigenous variety...
The traditional dance performance of Iwami Kagura tells the story of the discovery of steelmaking in Izumo, Japan, through the metaphor of the deity...
JAPAN Forward Announces 2018 Cherry Blossom Photo Contest The season for Hanami, or cherry blossom viewing, is fast approaching in Tokyo and the Kanto...
The brand new musical KAWAII Kabuki-Momotarō by the Hello Kitty Troupe (screenplay, direction, and lyrics by Kensuke Yokouchi) premiered on March 10 at the Märchen...
At the Gion District in Kyoto, geisha performers and apprentice geisha called maiko behave in an elegant manner and move in a rather languid...
Ask any Japanese which is the most expensive and sleek neighborhood in Japan, and the answer will most likely be Ginza, in Tokyo. This is...
“Dolphins!” Out went the cry, and the coiffed men lined up on the beach perked up and peered eagerly out into the Pacific, their tailored...
The generation who joined the ranks of the so-called elderly this year, like myself, lived through the era that saw both a period of high economic...