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Akihabara = Anime!

What comes to your mind when you hear Akihabara? Electronic appliances? Akihabara is not just a place wher…
I buy a souvenir for 100 yen!? A cheap, convenient “100-yen shop.”

Does everybody know a certain new Japanese popular spotted shop in these past several years? It is "a 100-yen…
Tea ceremony / Sadou is the beautiful world of Japan.

sadou is traditional culture in Japan. It is "tea ceremony" when I say in English. I sit straight in a Japan…
Japan’s oldest mall! The appeal of Asakusa’s Nakamise Street

The Asakusa "Nakamise street" is a mall of 250m following Senso-ji Temple from Kaminari-mon Gate. It is an ol…
The gay talent gay bar is rapidly gaining in popularity recently in Japan?

"A gay talent" plays a lot of role in Japan. Is there the person of a homosexual and the bisexual abroad? In…
Sumo is a traditional sport loved by Japanese citizens

Sumo is a beloved sport of Japanese citizens. For those unfamiliar, it is a martial art where sumo wrestlers …
Seiza| Lots of pins and needles from this way of sitting!

Seiza is a traditional, proper way of sitting that has been past down in Japan. You go from a kneeling positio…