Category Archives: Sports

Cup Noodles’ Cool New TV Commercial: SAMURAI in Brazil!

  A Nissin Cup Noodles’ TV spot titled “Samurai in Brazil” is rapidly gaining popularity since its June 8 debut. This is a World Cup year,  the creative minds at…

Good-Looking Boy Pro Wrestling

  Is pro wrestling popular in your country? Actually, I don’t know much about pro wrestling, but I did find an article about an interesting (and somewhat strange) pro wrestling…

New Sport? All Japan Pillow-throwing Game Event

  Makura-nage or pillow throwing may not be very good mannered thing, but it is what Japanese kids enjoy in the evening with their school friends behind their teachers’ back when…

Daisuke Ikenaga & Savigny Lions [Feature Story from My Eyes Tokyo]

  In a Japanstyle article from a couple of months ago, I announced our new collaboration project with “My Eyes Tokyo”, run by my friend, Tokuhashi-san. Today we are proud to…

Return of Sweets Marathon Event to Osaka!

As the fact that Japan is well-known for its longevity record proves, people are generally very conscious about their health and exercising as important as healthy eating.  As a part…

Lovable Japanese Major Leaguer, Munenori Kawasaki

Before introducing today’s article, I would like to let you know a great news. We have welcomed another staff to Japan Style, and she will write our articles with us….

Baseball Umpire School Established in Japan!

Summer is the season for Japan High School Baseball Championship, and this year’s final game just ended yesterday!  With much enthusiasm for baseball remaining after the end of the last…

Top 5 Courses Japanese Parents Want Their Children to Take

Kids taking courses after school hours has been very popular in Japan like other Asian countries, and I assume children nowadays are probably having more courses than our generations.  I…

Wasabi Stories vol.267: Bring up the children and they will bring out their best

“Bring up the children and they will bring out their best” Ms. Yuko Arimori (Olympic medalist in marathon, the Silver medal in Barcelona 1992 and the Bronze in Atlanta 1996)…

Wasabi Stories vol.266: You can only live out your dream if you have one

“You can only live out your dream if you have one” (Mr. Toyohisa Fujimoto, Ski Team Head Coach for Torino Olympic 2006)   It was in the 4th grade in…

Wasabi Stories vol.264: Overcome Irrational Aspects of Life with Split-second Decisions

Today I would like to introduce a part of an interview I found with Mr. Seiji Hirao who talks about his idea of leadership and importance to make a series…

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