Have you made your new year’s resolution for 2014?  Be healthier?  Spend more time with you family or quit smoking?  Mine is to do more exercise on a daily basis…

Taken around Tea Room Mizutani at Nara Park. Copyright(C) Miki →Miki’s twitter← (English is OK)   This is JAPAN Style!

  LINE is a very popular instant messaging/free calling phone app which “began in 2011 as the brainchild of engineers at NHN Japan, the Japanese arm of Naver Corporation (formerly…

Have you heard of Ise Grand Shrine of Mie Prefecture or visited before?  It is one of the most well-known, powerful grand shrines in Japan, and more importantly, it just finished a…

  According to a recent survey, 26% of Japanese married couples sleep in separate bedrooms. For couples over sixty years of age, that percentage goes up to 40%. What’s more,…

  Godzilla’s official teaser website has been released, celebrating his 60th anniversary coming up in 2014. The website is interactive and has several secret surprises that can be activated with your keyboard. Godzilla appears in…

Christmas is now over, and some of you may feel as if festive season in winter came to an end, but our festive season is still on; remaining year end…

  It doesn’t feel to me like it’s new year’s eve already, but still I would like to have a quick look back over my experiences in 2013. My main…

  2013 is drawing to a close, and soon we will be saying hello to 2014. Looking back from an international point of view, this past year’s biggest news is…

This rain making ritual has been handed down from Edo period. It seems this ritual was dropped for a while, but ladies restarted with red streamers after 1955. Children also join this…

Do you like fizzy drink?  I personally prefer hot drink such as tea and coffee (oh, yes, I sound old :-P), but I assume younger generation may appreciate cold drink…