The ema depicted an armor-tugging scene by Torii Kiyonaga. (Part 4 of a Series on the Art of Kuniyoshi) There are still many artists and...
Galileo Ferrari - Tokyo “Shoryuken!” “Hadoken!” In the early ’90s, middle school and high school students could be found flooding arcade centers—also known as...
Photo by @julenphoto from OOR’s official Facebook page I have been a fan of One OK Rock (OOR) long before they sang the theme songs...
A famous cherry blossom at Yoshino-yama in 2017 Despite a rare snowfall in Tokyo in late January, weather forecasts have begun for Japan’s cherry blossom...
America is often thought of as a new country, a place where countless people traveled from distant lands in search of a new life. As...
The dolphin hunts are no secret in Taiji, and if you know a fisherman he will give you some meat while it is still warm, and,...
The raw material used to make Japanese swords is called tamahagane. On January 24, production of the annual batch of tamahagane for Japan’s swordsmiths began...
Galileo Ferrari - Tokyo The 10-day Furusato Matsuri event held in Tokyo Dome every year is an amalgamation of Japan’s best regional festivals,...
Late last year, according to multiple sources, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs invited the ambassadors of at least 16 countries to a December 13th...
The cremated remains of 10 bodies from North Korea, which washed ashore along the coastline of Akita Prefecture,- between November and December 2017, are being...
Aerial view of Hashima (or Gunkanjima), the UNESCO's cultural heritage of the world The KAKEN database is a record of research carried out with the...
On November 30, 2017, Hong Kong-born Jenny Kwan, a member of the Canadian House of Commons from the western province of British Columbia, took to...