An award winner YouTube channel “How to Japan” offers short anime videos introducing Japanese culture, etiquette and lifestyle. It was nominated for “YouTube Video Award 2010” and won “Good…

Today’s story-teller is writer Minato Shukawa. The story is about people he thought, “I am grateful to the person for being in this world.” One of the people Shukawa feels…

This weeping willow at Himuro Shrine is the first cherry to bloom in Nara city. Copyright(C) Miki   →Miki’s twitter← (English is OK)   This is JAPAN Style!

  Cherry blossom are in full bloom this weekend in Tokyo, and groups of cherry-blossom viewers are seen at parks. They spread picnic sheets and enjoy food and sake under…

  Today, I would like to introduce an interesting advertisement video for a Buddhist temple named “Honko-ji”. Honko-ji is a regular Buddhist temple located in Ichikawa city, Chiba prefecture. However,…

The ceremony was held on the 7th day of Yakushiji Temple Hanaeshiki Festival. Copyright(C) Miki   →Miki’s twitter← (English is OK) This is JAPAN Style!

  A retired Japanese martial artist Genki Sudo cheers Japan up with his artistic music and dance performance. Being a versatile, he is also an essayist and actor. What he…

Last time, I made a post titled “Remnant Cooking: Bread”. In response to panic buying after the disaster, one blogger made bread out of bread crumbs. Today, I will introduce…

Miki took this picture with the Ice Lantern festival which started at 6:00 pm at Himuro Shrine. Copyright(C) Miki   →Miki’s twitter← (English is OK)   This is JAPAN Style!

Harinacs is a stapler that can bind papers without staples. It has been well received since the first model was released by a Japanese office products manufacture Kokuyo in December…

Let me introduce a blog post from my favorite Japanese entertainment blog as usual.   It is Saitama city, Saitama Prefecture near Tokyo. The blogger saw a cylindrical object made…