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Pictures: The Nagasaki Lantern Festival
It may be another few months before summer arrives and Tokyo’s biggest festivals, such as the Koenji Awa Odori, swing our way but in the historical port city of Nagasaki one of the best events has...
View ArticleVideo: A Week in the Life of a Tokyo Salaryman
The weeks, and even months, leading up to March 31st constitute the end of the financial year in Japan, and therefore the busy season for most companies. It’s normal for many office workers to work...
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Pictures: Original Godzilla Posters are Much Cooler Than Modern Hollywood...
Modern movie posters may as well just be shots of actors copied and pasted into layouts used a dozen times before (in fact, they basically are). But it wasn’t always like this…The following pictures...
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Official Caught Killing Off 12 Imaginary Relatives to Miss Work For Funerals
(Pic: Shutterstock) Japanese workers may be the least likely to take time off work, but that doesn’t mean everyone in Japan gives up their allocated vacation days. One government official in Sendai has...
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Pictures: 11 Crazy Things You Can Buy From Japanese Vending Machines
In Past “Crazy Things You Can Buy From…” we’ve also covered Japanese convenience stores and the king of craziness Don Quijote (click to see).One of the best things about living in Tokyo is the fact...
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Temple to Cosplay: 33 Different Photoshoot Sets Available at Haco Stadium
One look at the incredible outfits on display at Tokyo’s bi-annual Comiket (gallery here) makes it clear that cosplay is taken pretty seriously by many people in Japan. But even the most intricately...
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Video: Unfortunate American Kids Try Natto On Camera
Every culture has some kind of disgusting, weird food item that nobody introduced to it as an adult would even consider putting near their mouth, but since they’ve been force-fed it as children they’ve...
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Rui-Katsu: Japanese Parties Where People Go to Cry in Public
“I’ll make you cry for ￥1000” might not sound like the best sales pitch, but right now it’s working in Japan. Regular public crying events – known as rui-katsu, or tear-seeking – are being held around...
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Stay at Mario World on Your Next Trip to Tokyo
Japan caught on to AirBnB a little late, but in the past year it’s really started to take off in big cities such as Tokyo, where there are over a thousand apartments to rent at prices as low as ￥1200...
View ArticleVideo: Japanese People Try Marmite for the First Time
We recently posted a video of American kids trying natto for the first time, but now it’s the turn of Japanese people to try a ‘controversial’ food from another country. The food of choice: Marmite, a...
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