Blog

Summer Festivals in Japan

By |July 8th, 2016|Categories: Area, Japanese Culture|

Summer festivals are an important summer event in Japan. There are hundreds of small festivals for the local community, and many famous festivals that invite people from [...]

Shoe Culture in Japan

By |July 1st, 2016|Categories: Japanese Culture, Traditional Japanese house|

Japanese people do not wear shoes inside their homes. This unique shoe culture has been a part of Japanese culture for many centuries, and Japanese homes, both traditional [...]

Mount Fuji

By |June 24th, 2016|Categories: Area, Japanese Culture|

Mount Fuji, the most famous volcanic mountain in Japan, has been a national symbol for hundreds of years. It has been often depicted in various types of artwork. [...]

Living in Japan’s Countryside

By |June 17th, 2016|Categories: Area, Japanese Culture, Traditional Japanese house|

Japan is a narrow island country with diverse geographic features. Its land is surrounded by the ocean, with plains, mountains, and volcanoes all down the middle. However, big cities [...]

Tsuyu, The Rainy Season

By |June 10th, 2016|Categories: Japanese Culture, Traditional Japanese house|

Japan has four very distinct seasons, but there is another season that Japan experiences between spring and summer. Tsuyu, is the name of the rainy season that [...]

My Hometown, Osaka

By |June 3rd, 2016|Categories: Area, Japanese Culture|

The samuri culture was not so promminent in Osaka, my hometown, as it was in Tokyo (Edo region) and other significant cities. Rather than fighting and protecting [...]