— ABOUT  Wasabi Stories… —   “Pure Heart and Soul Moves You More Than Anything” Today’s story-teller is poet and musician Kimihito Sasa.  The story is from one of…

  Imoni is a certain kind of potato and meat soup mostly eaten in Honshu’s Tohoku region. People usually have imoni parties with their families or friends, outside, like barbecue…

    Gotouchi, “local specialty” is one of the active products in the Japanese market. In this blog, I have posted some local specialty related stories such as “Snoopy napping…

In an upscale area of Tokyo, Ginza, there is a unique building standing out conspicuously.     Can you tell what store is in it? Well, it is not cheese…

  Tokyo Girls Collection (TGC) 2010 A/W, one of the biggest girl’s clothing fashion shows in Japan, was held yesterday at Saitama Super Arena, and attracted 30,000 audiences. The show…

  Asakusa, in Tokyo, is a very popular neighborhood for sightseers from other countries because it retains the flavor of good old Japan. There is a famous temple in [W:Asakusa]…

Last weekend, Japan’s biggest characters and hobby event, “Chara-Hobby C3xHOBBY” was held at Makuhari Messe in [W:Chiba]. The venue had a lot of booths that exhibit and sell figures, toys,…

A creepy monster train, called “yokai densha,” has been running in Kyoto since last week. “Densha” means train, and “yokai” are monsters in Japanese folk tales. In the black lighted…

  The other day I wrote an article about taiyaki, a Japanese fish shaped sweet. This time, I’d like to tell you about  a unique taiyaki shop called Nazeya in…

  In a past article, I introduced a hot springs amusement park, “Ooedo onsen monogatari” in Odaiba, Tokyo. Today I want to introduce another hot spring spa, LaQua which is…

  I know this is sudden, but what I eat very often is cup noodles. Cup noodles save my life a lot LoL When I get a bit hungry or…