Category Archives: Others

The Nursing Bottle Evolves in Japan

The product in the photo above is the nursing bottle named Doctor Betta.  You may think “why a nursing bottle on the JAPAN Style Blog!?”. Because this is not the…

Cleaning Toilet Makes You Rich!?

  In Japan, some people believe that cleaning toilet is good luck especially with money. It is a famous story that a film director, Takeshi Kitano has cleaned toilet since…

Turquoise Blue Pond in Biei, Hokkaido

Image from YouTube video by jg8gwx   There is a beautiful turquoise blue pond that became gradually popular by word of mouth over the last couple of years. Simply called…

Being Nicknamed By Foreigners

  Her name is Kosakai, and she has more than ten nicknames. Wow, so many! The most popular (?) one is “Kazuki” just because there is a famous Japanese comedian…

Curse of the Colonel Sanders

    The other day I shared pictures of “KFC’s Colonel Sanders’ Statues in Costumes,” and there was a picture of him in Hanshin Tigers’ uniform. But why is he…

A Horror-Movie-Like Phone Booth

Let me introduce a blog post from a Japanese entertainment site that I introduce frequently on Japan Style. It is about a phone booth.   In Chino, Nagano, there are…

KFC’s Colonel Sanders’ Fashion in Japan

When you go to a Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) in Japan, you see the founder Colonel Sanders’ statue in front of the restaurant. He is called Colonel ojisan (uncle Colonel)…

Sendai Daikannon, a White Large Statue Standing in Sendai City

It is a view of Sendai city in Miyagi Prefecture. Although it is the largest city in the Tohoku region (northeast Japan), there are a lot of greens; therefore, it…

Fingers of a Classical Guitar Player

Let me introduce a blog post from my favorite entertainment site. The topic was about fingers of a classical guitar player.     This is a picture of a hand…

Japanese Samurai Armor Wedding

The recent samurai boom hatched a new style of marriage ceremony, Samurai Armor Wedding!!     In the samurai armor wedding, the groom wears samurai armor and helmet instead of…

Auto-Campers Increasing at Service Areas in Japan

The number of auto-campers has been increasing since the late 2000’s. Auto-camping is called “shachu-haku” in Japanese and it means staying overnight in a car parked at a roadside station…

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