A year ago, on February 27, 2020, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe requested that all schools in Japan shut down until...
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There are vending machines for books, jeans, salmon, pecan pies, a vending machine to support mourners during funerals, so it's...
Exactly ten years ago, on a Friday afternoon, March 11, the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan struck off...
Japanese designer Yasuhiro Suzuki has created a unique boat shaped like a giant zipper puller that looks like it’s opening...
We all love coupons and vouchers, but can you imagine living almost exclusively on them for almost four decades? Well...a...
Toshikoshi soba (年越し蕎麦), delicious buckwheat noodles, is one of Japan’s unique New Year’s customs. The history of this curious tradition...
In warm weather, the beautiful rolling hills of Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido burst with flowers while, in cold weather,...
In America, people associate Halloween with pumpkins, costumes, candy, and spooky stories or ghosts but, around the world, it could...
The Japanese castle town of Himeji is home to the only known black cat café in the world, Nekobiyaka, where...
In the Nezu district of Tokyo there is a stone staircase know for a really strange feature. Known as Obake...
Apparently, a number of people are apprehensive about using public toilet as it is, so making them completely transparent would...
Living in an airport isn’t easy. Try to imagine the sound of planes taking off and landing both early morning...
We are in Ōsaki, in Japan's remote Tohoku region, where an abandoned amusement park rests upon the banks of the...
A haunted house tour operator in Japan has announced the world’s first horror drive-through experienced as a responsible way of...
If you’re bored in this difficult period, this specially-printed toilet paper that lets you use poop as paint to make...
Numazu Port, in central Japan’s Shizuoka Prefecture, was more famous for its seafood dishes and arresting views of Suruga Bay,...
Kamakura was the capital and religious center of Japan from the 12th-14th centuries. The city is scattered with medieval Shinto...
Can some verses hurt someone? A popular Japanese story is about a poem called "Tomino's Hell" (トミノの地獄). They say that...
Nearly 30 years after the end of the Second World War Japanese soldier Hiroo Onoda finally surrendered on this day,...
In the Makomanai Takino cemetery, in the northern Japanese city of Sapporo, the famous Pritzker Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando, designed...
Hinnagami are powerful spirits from Toyama Prefecture, Japan, that live inside in dolls. In Japan dolls take on an important...
In 2004, a retired forester reached out to Capilano University archaeology professor Bob Muckle about investigating what looked like the...
Japan is a great country for cat lovers: there are, for example, islands with more cats that inhabitants, and the...
Although the Japanese climate is not exactly conducive to mummification, somehow a group of Buddhist monks from the Shingon sect...
Tsuneko Sasamoto was born in Tokyo on September 1st 1914. Although photography had been invented the previous century, it was...
A super creative mysterious illustrator from Japan, imagines the world like no other. On social media, the artist is known...
Demons, monsters and ghosts. Anyone who has even a minimum of familiarity with Japanese folklore knows that there are so...
The bright blue stripes that color the rocks just off the coast of Okayama beach, Japan, are not strange special...
Visitors would be forgiven for thinking they've entered in a set of a horror movie: hundred of statues stare straight...
Its name is Mizu Shingen Mochi and it's one of the most curious Japanese specialities. This unusual rice cake looks...
