Japanese Healthy Spaghetti Sauce Part 1 — “ume-shiso” flavored

  Just like the Japanese pizza I introduced before, there are unique spaghetti sauce in Japan!!   The one shown in the picture is “ume-shiso” flavored spaghetti (the right one)….

Japanese Popular JOYU (Actress) Mirror — perfect for makeup!

  Japanese women love mirrors. They always carry mirror in their bags. The most popular mirror in Japan now is Joyu mirror, wchich has LED lights around it just like…

Japanese Children are Busy Taking Lessons!!! – abacus, syodo, baseball, soccer

  Many Japanese children take lessons outside of school or kindergarten. The popular lessons are, piano, swimming, violin, [W:abacus] (soroban), Japanese calligraphy (syodo), painting, baseball, and soccer. Some parents have…

Japanese Traditional Style Makeup Mini Mirror with KIMONO fabric

  This is a Japanese traditional style makeup mirror table. Very KAWAII !!!!   This is JAPAN Style!   You should follow me on Twitter HERE.   If the eBay…

Japanese PIZZA Part 2

  Last time, I introduced Teriyaki and Shrimp mayonnaise pizza. Today, I am going to introduce Japanese unique pizza again. The pizza shown in the pictures is half & half…

Japanese SHIGARAKI Ware Vase, pottery

  This is a Japanese SHIGARAKI-yaki (Shigaraki ware) Vase. Shigaraki ware is pottery and stoneware. It’s made in Kouka area in [W:Shiga Prefecture]. Shigaraki ware is famous for raccoon statue….

Blog Action Day 2009: The influence of Decreased Snowfall upon Japan

  For the Blog Action Day 2009, I wrote about the delay of leaves’ color change in autumn yesterday. Another noticeable climate change in Japan is the less of snowfall….

Blog Action Day 2009: Water Crisis and Flush Toilets [Japan]

  “What do you think about climate change?” I asked my ten years old daughter. Since the theme for Blog Action Day 2009 is climate change, I was thinking about…

Blog Action Day 2009: Climate Change Influences on Colored Leaves in Autumn [Japan]

  Colored leaves bring Japanese people real feeling of autumn. Traditionally, there is a custom called “momiji-gari” that people go to out to see beautiful colored mountains. Momiji-gari is enjoyed…

Blog Action Day 2009: Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emissions — A Musician Ryuichi Sakamoto’s Approach [Japan]

    Japanese political change took place in the end of August. The Democratic Party in the office proclaims “cut 25% of carbon dioxide emissions”, which is widely sympathized in…

Blog Action Day 2009: Cool Biz and Warm Biz [Japan]

    It is worldly believed that reducing green gas emissions leads to prevent rapidly progressing global warming. In summer of 2005, the Japanese Ministry of the Environment started the…

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