The photos are from my favorite Japanese entertainment website.    It is an escalator in Edo Tokyo Museum (http://www.edo-tokyo-museum.or.jp/english/). When seen from the front, it looks an ordinary escalator…  …

  This is a Japanese “my neighbor TOTORO” bath towel set. As you know, my Neighbor Totoro (Tonari no Totoro, in Japanese) is a 1988 Japanese anime movie written by…

Apple’s Steve Jobs passed away the other day. A unique discovery relating to Mac was posted on a Japanese blog as the blogger pays a tribute to the memory of…

4 more weeks to Halloween. Are you planning to wear a costume this year? You can always find nice Halloween costumes at stores, but they are so classic and the…

  On September 3rd, the Doraemon museum (Fujiko F. Fujio Museum) opened in Kawasaki city. Today, we will have a virtual museum tour. Let’s go!!     From the nearby train…

It is a photo tour of major and minor statues found in Japan. Here we go!     Mizukake Fudo at Hozen-ji Temple in Osaka. The stone statues are covered…

Do you know the popular Japanese manga and anime series “Case Closed” (known as Meitantei Conan in Japan)? It is a detective fiction focusing on a teenage detective Jimmy Kudo…

  Recently in Japan, using “moe” mascot characters for community revitalization is becoming a trend. Aichi prefecture created some PR videos for Chita peninsula. A group of twelve moe characters called “Chita Musume”…

  “My life is full of joy!” I would rather say this in a loud voice, but nothing is quite that easy. Of course, tons of happy events occur to…

  Early this month, the 29th Haji-sai festival was held at Washimiya Shrine in Kuki, Saitama Prefecture. The festival used to be a typical Japanese summer festival where local people…

The three videos below show “funny foods” that are on COOKPAD, the largest recipe sharing site in Japan having 10.7million monthly active members. They can share their recipes and also…