Japanese people love green tea, and  in Japan you can find a variety of tea leaves and green tea bottled beverages. Green tea is very integral in our daily lives…

Morioka Sansa Odori (Dance) at Tohoku Rokkon Matsuri (Tohoku Six Major Festivals). Miki liked this performance the best in the 6 fests because it has good rhythms (^o^) Copyright(C) Miki…

  Young Japanese girls really love kawaii (cute) things, and often decorate their belongings such cell phones, fingernails and even handwritten letters in their own kawaii ways. One day a…

  For those who own iPhone/iPad and are planning to visit Japan, how they can use their iPhones might be a big question. Today, I give you some information on…

One of the exciting news every media talks about now is the Japan women’s national foot ball team’s victory in the World Cup 2011. Japan’s female foot ball team is…

  Have you ever heard of the term dried flower girl (“dry flower joshi”)? Probably you have not. It literally refers to a girl who has given up on being…

  Following to the Ghibli Art Videos Part 1, I want to share some Ghibli related videos. The part 2 is themed “DIY Totoro.” The videos below show handmade Totoros…

This is another post from my favorite Japanese website. It is about a temple in Kyoto.   Otagi Nenbutsu-ji, a temple that silently stands in Sagatoriimoto, Kyoto.   The site…

  If you are a fighting game fan, you may know or have heard of Daigo “the Beast” Umehara, who is a famous Japanese fighting-game player. He won many championships…

Today’s story-teller is a scholar of German literature, Osamu Ikeuchi. He wrote a column entitled: “24 Hours a Day” to talk about time. Ikeuchi says that the world is unfair…

  Studio Ghibli’s animation films are very celebrated here in Japan. I hear that Ghibli has many overseas fans too. The works that are famous in other countries might be…