Shimotsuki Festival in Gose city, Nara. Even the dog is watchin the parade of Yamabushi with much interest. Copyright(C) Miki   →Miki’s twitter← (English is OK)   This is JAPAN…

  After the “chunky Chinese red chile oil (taberu raayu)” boom, various kinds of chunky seasonings got popular including “chunky soy sauce” called “shoyu no mi,” which translates “soy sauce…

Last year, JAPAN Style made a post about an online digital clock service called “Bijin Tokei” and “Binan Tokei”.  In Japanese, bijin is “beautiful woman”,  binan is “handsome man”, and tokei…

It is fun to go for a walk after the rain. Miki took this picture at Muroji Temple. Copyright(C) Miki   →Miki’s twitter← (English is OK)   This is JAPAN…

Yoro Park (Site of Reversible Destiny Yoro Park) in Gifu Prefecture is a vast, 18,000 square-meter modern art piece created by contemporary artist Shusaku Arakawa and poet Madeline Gins. This…

What is this little girl talking about? Miki took this picture at Taima Temple. Copyright(C) Miki   →Miki’s twitter← (English is OK)   This is JAPAN Style!

  Titled “Way Too Cool Bento,” a Niconicodouga user made some slideshow videos of charaben, which refers bento, boxed food, decorated to look like characters from anime, manga, and so…

Let me introduce an interesting blog post that I read lately. It is about a bird’s feathers.   This is a bird called yellow golden pheasant. The stripes on the…

‘Hana’, the cat, welcomes visitors at the front. Hana hang out with Miki while she was shooting at the temple. ^_^ Copyright(C) Miki   →Miki’s twitter← (English is OK)  …

The Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel is the world largest flood alleviation establishment in Kasukabe, Saitama. Completed building in June 2006, it discharges water into the Edo River during…

In the Early 1980’s there were very popular cats called “Name-Neko”. These were real kittens in Japanese motorbike gang costumes photographed with kitten-sized miniature sets, and over 500 kinds of…