The Kansai Tourism Bureau released a fun video series on January 21, explaining the basics of Japanese culture to meet the ever increasing flow of...
Lesson 1: Etiquette in Shrines Lesson 2: Taking Pictures Lesson 3: No Littering Lesson 4: Hospitality Lesson 5: Smoking Areas Lesson 6: Going for Sushi Lesson...
Photo: The Ama-no-Saka-hoko standing at the peak of Mount Takachiho in Miyazaki prefecture, Kyushu These are an excerpts from the forthcoming book National Treasure Swords of Japan...
TOTO has been instrumental in bringing Japanese toilet culture to the world, but its corporate culture of kindness has delivered a whole lot more.
NHK's new asadora features jazz singer/actress Shizuko Kasagi (Shuri Mizutani) and songwriter Ryōichi Hattori (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi). Now here's the backstory.
Despite the prevalence of baths in modern homes, there has been a resurgence of interest in traditional bathhouses, known as "sento" in Japanese.
A gamer's-world throwback to some key moments of 2022, a year Japanese pop culture shone through with smash-hit video games and anime.
"Vertical-scroll and full color manga are becoming the global standard,” according to Tokyo a publishing executive, while the merits of the different style of Japanese manga...
This was the case when someone asked me innocently “how do the Japanese approach religion and spirituality?”
Bookmark is a JAPAN Forward feature that gives you long reads for the weekend. Each edition introduces one overarching thought that branches off to a...
In my youth, my introduction to Japanese swords (as with many other people) was via martial arts, Akira Kurosawa movies, and my discovery...
The 2020 Eshi-100 exhibition highlighting the works of more than 100 manga artists and illustrators is officially set to start August 8 at Akiba Square...