This is a Japanese traditional HAGI ware sake bottle and cups set. Hagi ware is pottery made in Hagi area in [W:Yamaguchi Prefecture]. In 1604, Mori Terumoto, a…

  Next month, a new comedy film called “Shodo Girls” will be released in Japan. Shodo means Japanese calligraphy, and literally, the film is about high school girls enliven their…

  — ABOUT  Wasabi Stories… —   “A Bother Modern Convenience and a Syndrome” Today’s story teller is a writer, Megumi Fukumitsu. The article was about “phantom vibration syndrome”.  …

  Early this year, I introduced “Todpole Shaped Digital Musical Instrument, Otamatone” by Maywa Denki I just found that the tadpole has cousins, “Knock-Man family” !!! They are wind-up type…

The other day, I introduced Japanese candles. I don’t usually use candles, and I can’t even remember when I used a candle last time. But when I interviewed with the…

  Since April 5, Japanese McDonald’s started “Taste of Japan” campaign. What they are featuring now is the new style buns called “mochi mochi buns”, which are added mochi powder…

    This is a Japanese Shimizu-yaki (Kyo-yaki) coffee cup & saucer. Kyo ware is made in Higashiyama area in Kyoto. It started about 1590’s, developed with the popularity of…

  JAPAN Style has posted several articles about vending machines in Japan. There are more weird vending machines. Today, I want to share this amazing one I found in a…

  — ABOUT  Wasabi Stories… —   “In any fields, people attack others from outside” Today’s story teller is a professor of political science at Tokyo University, [W:Shinichi Kitaoka]. Through…

    This is a Japanese Shimizu yaki (Kyo ware) mug cup. Kyo ware is made in Higashiyama area in Kyoto. It started about 1590’s, developed with the popularity of…

  If you like pop dance music, you should try Perfume, a Japanese girl technopop group. The members are three girls from Hiroshima Prefecture; Ayano Omoto nicknamed “Nocchi”, Yuka Kashino…