— ABOUT  Wasabi Stories… —   “Just living hard makes you beautiful” Today’s story teller is a member of the House of Representatives, [W:Junji Higashi]. He is also vice…

Can you tell what office this is?   The answer is a dental office!   Look at the logo closer…     It looks cherry flower but actually each petal…

    Kumon is an after-school math and reading program developed by Toru Kumon and founded in 1958 in Osaka, Japan. In 1974, Kumon first advanced into overseas markets in…

  — ABOUT  Wasabi Stories… —   “Result Doesn’t Always Count All” Today’s story teller is a manga writer [W:Tetsuya Chiba]. He spoke his thoughts on the issue that “Today’s…

  BANDAI is going to release the first “Mousou Controller (Imaginary Playable Game Controller)”series. It’s a small game controller designed just like original Nintendo system. With this controller, you can…

Numerous plant pots in the world but these pots must be strange to you. These plant pots found in front of a shop in Japan are RAIN BOOTS! Because the…

  — About Wasabi Stories… —   “Life is a continuous effort to reduce the complaints” Today’s article is an interview of a famous author [W:Nobuko Takagi]. Interviewer: “How do…

  In Japan, most people use bath salt or tablet when they take bath. So, there are all kinds of bath salt/tablets found at stores. Today, let me introduce some…

One of my favorite SFX movie genres, henshin (transformation) hero. For example, in American movies there are Batman, Spiderman, and Superman. Hero movies are very popular here in Japan too….

  –Introduction– “Wasabi Stories” is a quotation and summary of a column which touches ones heart or not found on the internet. It is a Japanese famous person’s story extracted…

    In these past few years, “rekijo” are increasing in Japan. Rekijo describes women who are crazy about history, especially the Sengoku era (the Warring State Period) and Sangokushi…