Japan and South Korea tops Twitter’s New Year list
New Year’s Day has always been a time of sending greetings and good wishes to family and friends and anyone and everyone. Glad tidings have been easier to broadcast to the far reaches of earth and even...
View ArticleSDF troops, US marines celebrate new year with Japanese customs
It’s always nice to hear some news about the U.S. marines in Japan, or the country’s Self Defense Forces (SDF) that doesn’t involve criminal activity or aggressions from China. None of that played a...
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Nagoya celebrates Chinese New Year Festival without territorial dispute or...
Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, in central Japan, is holding a large Chinese festival this weekend in celebration of the New Year’s arrival. As one of the biggest Chinese New Year events in Japan, there are...
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Coming of Age Day now celebrated in Disneyland with mobile phones
Showing that we really live in a different age and that Japan is a culture of contrasts, some young women celebrated Seijin no Hi, or “Coming of Age Day”, at Disneyland Tokyo on Monday, wearing the...
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Hundreds in Tokyo celebrate ‘bean throwing’ holiday Setsubun
Yahoo! Japan Capital hosted its own event on the day of the Setsubun, a bean-throwing festival held annually on February 3rd. While the festival itself is celebrated in many different ways depending on...
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China cracks down on sales of rudely named ‘Tokyo Big Bang’ fireworks
Chinese authorities have reportedly ordered fireworks retailers to stop selling a product named “Tokyo Big Bang” out of concern that it could damage the country’s relations with Japan. As if the...
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3D-printed chocolate face: a new Valentine’s sweet treat
Nothing says “I love you” like your likeness in chocolate form. At least that’s what 3D-printing firm KS Design Lab and FabCafe are hoping for as they host a workshop for women who want to create...
View ArticleUnlike men, Japanese women flock to stores to buy Valentine’s chocolates
While in western cultures, men are expected to lavish their women with gifts and chocolates during Valentine’s Day, Japan has it slightly different. Today, women flocked department stores to buy all...
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Japanese men get 3D gummy replicas for White Day gifts
At first it was 3D chocolate replicas of the women to give their men on Valentine’s Day. Now Fab Cafe in Shibuya, Tokyo is offering up gummy love. Yep, you guessed it; men can now give their special...
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You big baby: Japan holds annual crying baby sumo contest
We’re pretty sure this is illegal in some parts of the world, but in Hiroshima, making babies cry is an annual event at the Nakizumo festival. Literally translated to “crying baby sumo”, the event...
View ArticleTaiwanese tourists expected to flock to Japan in 2013
Taiwanese airlines are expecting a surge in tourists flying to Japan in spite of the slow domestic economy. The new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s policy of depreciating the value of the yen will greatly...
View Article‘Zombies’ invade Tokyo Tower for Halloween
If you were somewhere in downtown Tokyo on Thursday, you would not have missed the “zombie attack” mounted by around 1,000 beauty school students dressed in their best undead attire. This was part of...
View ArticleSanta brings a different kind of gourmet Christmas to Fukushima nuclear evacuees
The “Caravan Bon Appetite” surprised some child evacuees of the Fukushima disaster being hosted at a local school when they arrived with Santa, Christmas carolers, a clown, presents and a gourmet...
View ArticleJapanese netizens invent app to capture women’s ‘kiss face’, Yahoo Japan...
The Internet forum dwellers of 2chan – Japan’s most famous (infamous?) message board – have come up with an idea for an app that would capture a person’s “kiss face”. We would bet a lot that it was men...
View ArticleMerry Christmas & Happy Holidays from Japan!
Hello readers! We know Japan doesn’t officially recognize Christmas as a national holiday (but it is fairly prominent culturally — lots of ‘date nights’ among the younger generations earlier this...
View ArticleJapan’s Apple fans eagerly await another ‘Lucky Bag’ day on January 2
Christmas may be over, but for Apple fans in Japan, their long-awaited day is still yet to come. The Fukubukuro, or “lucky bags”, will go on sale this coming January 2, with Apple stores opening two...
View ArticleJapan’s Apple customers get thousands of dollars’ worth of products in their...
In Japan, January 2 is Fukubukuro day – literally “lucky bags” – where stores get look to clear out their old stocks by bundling items together and selling off the whole bag at a massively discounted...
View ArticleComing of Age Day celebrated in numerous ceremonies all over Japan
Japan celebrated Seijin no Hi, or “Coming of Age Day”, in different ceremonies held all over the country on Monday. Originally a religious rite for samurai member families in Shintoism, it celebrates...
View ArticleJapan’s Lower House approves bill creating ‘Mountain Day’ holiday
Mount Fuji is a known symbol of Japan, oftentimes depicted in art and featured in photographs. It was also included in the UNESCO World Heritage Site list last year. While the famous mountain, sacred...
View ArticleJapan sets new holiday, ‘Mountain Day’ to be celebrated starting in 2016
The Japanese Parliament enacted a law last week for the creation of a new public holiday – Mountain Day – adding to the 15 Public holidays Japan already has at the moment. The law was passed after the...
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