Category: Culture

Exploring the Simplistic Beauty of Wabi Sabi (侘寂)

Eat Like a Viking

The Tokyo Motor Show: An Open-Ended Future

How an Englishman saved Japan’s Cherry-Blossoms

What is the meaning of Hadouken

Visiting Japan’s oldest Whisky Distillery

This Lego Cherry Blossom Tree in Japan Just Broke The World Record

Junko Iwao at Anime North 2018

The Battle of Sekigahara

Iaido–The Ancient Art of Swordsmanship Entering a New Age

What you did not know about Geisha (芸者)

Should Tattoos Continue to be Banned From Onsen in Japan?

Why are there no Empresses in Japan?

Job Hunting Season in Japan – Shuukatsu

7 Things you didn’t know about Ninja

The Will to Secede: Japan’s Micro-nation Boom

6 Things Everybody Gets Wrong About Samurai

The Town That Banned Cucumbers

Rice Riots

Beer, Happoshu and “The Third Beer”

How to refer to your spouse in Japanese

Jesus: The Japanese Rice Farmer

The Fox’s Wedding

What’s so “nama” about Nama Beer?