The imagery that comes to mind when thinking of Japan tends to fall in between two extremes: the sensationalist sights and sounds of a neon…

“Everyone must have had similar thoughts at least once,” writes Tatsuya Tanaka on his website. “Broccoli and parsley might sometimes looks like a forest, or…

Appointed as a World Heritage Site, The Kasuga Grand Shrine in Nara is a beautiful shrine in its own right, its famous lantern festival provides…

If you have been browsing Facebook in the past couple of hours, you would have seen many posts about the new button being introduced on…

Junya Kono is somewhat of a renaissance man when it comes to yokai(demons and ghouls of Japanese folklore). He’s an event and art producer, lecturer,…

Many will recall the cute Shiba dog that got stuck in a bush and kept a no-worries smile on his face, but this Akita puppy…

The recent typhoon that has caused massive flooding in Ibaraki prefecture has been devastating, resulting in damage to residential areas and requiring emergency services to…

If you’re taking a stroll in Niigata and ran into these giant straw dinosaurs, you might think local farmers are being a bit overzealous with…

It’d be pretty strange to take a stroll on a Japanese beach and find yourself staring at the footprints of a monkey or T-Rex, but…

If Totoro isn’t Studio Ghibli’s most popular character, the big and cuddly keeper of the forest is sure in contention for the top spot. Totoro…

Ramen is a popular noodle-soup that comes as close to satisfying as many people as a dish can. It has a wide range of tasty…

In a series of interactive YouTube commercials, Suntory has been trying to test the concentration ability of viewers in order to promote their energy drink—“Shuchu…

Japan has a vast array of beautiful shrines, but even its water temple won’t get you this soaked. The Hazama Underwater Park is a praised…

Source: YouTube Isao Machii, who has five Guinness World Records for iaijutsu notched in his belt, his a modern-day sword master who can slice just…

The idea of a children’s song about the ins and outs of pooping may strike you as strange, but there’s a Japanese YouTube channel that…