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Rice in Japan
Rice is a crop that is essential to the Japanese people. Rice-growing began in Japan about 2500 years ago. Japan is located in a temperate zone, blessed with quality water more »
Is a girl or boyfriend worth it?
Photo: Isaku Kawazoe This year’s Christmas date night might have plenty of vacant slots if a recent survey on Japanese relationships is correct. Fewer young people than ever before say more »
Japan’s amazing lunchboxes
Making a packed lunch for your children to take to school is a chore performed by parents around the world. But in Japan, it is not just the taste and more »
Japanese men in the kitchen: part 1of 2
Demographics Between the 28th and 30th of October 2011 516 male members of the Macromill monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 25% of the sample were in their twenties, more »
Umeshu – Japanese Plum Wine
Japanese restaurants serve many different varieties of umeshu and also make cocktails. Umeshu on the Rocks (pronounced umeshu rokku), Umeshu Sour (pronounced umeshu sawa), Umeshu Tonic (with 2/3 tonic water), more »
Koukyo (The Imperial Palace)
The Koukyo, also called the ‘Gosho’, is the Emperor’s place of residence. Until the Meiji period the Imperial Palace had long been more »
‘Genji Monogatari: Sennen no Nazo (Tale of Genji — A Thousand Year Enigma)’
Romance writ large as the classic “Genji” tale goes big-budget By MARK SCHILLING Filming “Genji Monogatari (The Tale of Genji),” Murasaki Shikibu’s epic 1,000-year-old tale of love and intrigue among more »
Kanji for Tattoos 75
The History of Kanji By relache Kanji translates literally to “Han’s characters” and are the name given to one form of writing of the Japanese language. The characters themselves more »
Hello Kitty Christmas Ornaments
I knew that once the Hello Kitty Christmas tree showed up in my email before December even began that things weren’t going to go well this holiday season. This feeling more »
How we learned to love the atom bomb
An allied correspondent standing in rubble before the shell of a building that once was a movie theatre in Hiroshima, Japan in September 1945. PAUL Ham is ready for a more »
