Baseball, once America’s favorite sport and pastime, is an unlikely hit in Japan. As with yoshoku cuisine, a mix of Japanese flavors married with Western recipes, Japanese baseball emerged during...
Calling all Demon Slayer fans! Combine your love of snacks with your love of anime. Ever wondered which of your favorite snacks would represent the cast of colorful characters in...
Wading into the calm waters of a simple Japanese pottery inquiry—what are the most popular styles of Japanese pottery?—we were nearly caught in the riptide of over ten thousand years...
Anime-lovers will know the colorful cast of characters of the popular anime show adapted from the shonen manga series. For those who aren’t in the know, we’ll introduce you to...
Tsukimi, or Otsukimi, means moon viewing in Japanese, and is a traditional celebration observed in Japan on the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar. This typically...
If you aren’t a train enthusiast you might not have heard of the shinkansen. If you want to get almost anywhere in Japan in the least amount of time without...
Origami is the Japanese art of paper folding, a craft that dates back to the late 1400s but really took off during the late 1700s. After the Chinese invention of...
If you search for an ikebana definition the most basic answer you’ll get is that it is the centuries-old traditional Japanese art of flower arranging. The name ikebana is made...
Say goodbye to spending countless hours trying to think of the perfect gift, we’ve got some great Studio Ghibli merch for any My Neighbor Totoro fan. Your search for unique...
Coffee isn’t just an energizing drink, but a unique aspect of many different cultures. You may not have considered how coffee differs in Japan, but there are a lot of...
For centuries, Japanese botanists have cultivated momiji—the Japanese Maple tree—so prolifically that today, some estimate that it now has about 1000 varietals! Though this brief glance won’t allow a study...
While many of us tend to grow out of our childhood fear of bees, we never seem to grow out of our fear of hornets. And for good reason! Hornets...
