Tag: history

Osaka is Japan's second largest city, with 17 million people living in the greater metropolitan Osaka-Kyoto-Kobe area. The city is ...

The most successful motor vehicle in history isn't the Toyota Corolla, and it's isn't the Ford F-Series pickup, or even ...

It's still drizzling in Japan, as rainy season continues dumping an extra helping of precipitation on the Japanese islands. This ...

Doujinshi are the fan-created comic-books which have become a huge sub-culture here in Japan. The word literally means "same-person-magazine" and ...

Japan is a country that likes to think of itself as coming from more or less the same genetic stock, ...

There are some big differences between how elections work in Japan compared to the U.S. Because Japan uses a British-style ...

History has been made in the Sumo Wrestling world with the victory of Bulgarian wrestler Kotooshu (koh-toh-OH-shu), the first time ...

I saw a report that said Americans throw away an average of 27% of available food, an unfortunate reality in ...

World War II officially ended 63 years ago with the surrender of Japan, but the legacy of the war isn't ...

There are many strange and new tastes that await a foreigner who comes to live in Japan. Some, like pickled ...

The name of Japan in its own language is nihon or nippon, alternate readings of kanji characters that mean "origin ...

Japan is in the middle of Golden Week, a semi-accidental grouping of holidays which gives everyone a break from normal ...

Bento are the amazing boxed lunches from Japan that are both delicious to eat and pleasing to look at, and ...

Japan's defeat in World War II was a huge emotional blow to the country which is still felt today. Although ...

I happened to see that this month marks the 30th anniversary of the venerable "Invader Game," what Space Invaders is ...

The word otaku is a formal term meaning "you" or "your family" which acquired its alternate meaning of "obsessed fanboy" ...

I've written before about how the question of "patriotism" in modern Japan is a tricky one. In the U.S. we ...

It's a day for congratulations in Japan. The mega department store chains Mitsukoshi and Isetan are getting married, formally tying ...

The Season of the Sakura has come to Japan, and all throughout the country cherry trees are exploding like beautiful ...

The history of Buddhism in Japan is long, going back to the very beginning of the country's historical age, since ...

Although it'd be a stretch to call a homogeneous country like Japan a "melting pot," modern Japanese society does represent ...

Hayao Miyazaki is the animator and director that's brought so many wonderful films to the world, from Totoro to Kiki's ...

Akihabara is the area of Tokyo famous for its Electric Town shopping district and for being the international "Mecca" of ...

The Japanese have a long history with robots, going all the way back to karakuri ningyo, mechanical dolls that mimic ...