— ABOUT  Wasabi Stories… —   “FRISK Commercial” Today’s story teller is a novelist Kikuko Tsumura. The topic was a TV commercial for FRISK (a brand of mints), which…

    Extremely sour, salty and fruity Japan’s favorite pickles, umeboshi, which are salted dried ume (called plum or apricot), sometimes seasoned with shiso leaf, kombu (kelp) or honey.  

When you hear a word “samurai helmet”, you will imagine stern looking strong helmet, and that’s how a samurai helmet should to be. But I found a helmet that makes…

Let me share some pictures of a unique great statue of Buddha in Japan I found lately. This was reported by a Japanese blogger.   Huge Buddha’s face. Just let…

  — ABOUT  Wasabi Stories… —   “Think what you can do for others first” Today’s story teller is a calligrapher, Souun Takeda. By his definition, a success is to…

As an iPhone user, there is a series of iPhone cases that drew my attention. It is JAPAN TEXTURE Special Editions for iPhone 3GS/3G designed by Zohiko.    

Do you know Japanese foot ware, geta? If you don’t, please read the past post on geta. I found a pair of funky geta designed by a foreign designer!  …

In past posts, I wrote about “Fun Note Pad Found at 100 yen Shop.” This time it is about a greeting card. This is an ordinary greeting card.    

  — ABOUT  Wasabi Stories… —   “An independent adult bears responsibility for everything” Today’s story teller is a soccer player, Kazuyoshi Miura, who has played in the Japanese national…

I saw a picture of this odd food in another blog. The blogger ordered the food at a izakaya (Japanese style bar) in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Let’s take a look at…

  There is a totally new style of rice ball (“mokamusu”) in [W:Hyogo prefecture] and ever since it was introduced on TV shows, it became really popular in west Japan….