You may have visited ice cream parlors and even some restaurants where the menu section for parfaits is incredibly long, even several pages long… But…

The first large-scale retrospective of works by the artist Yoshio Yoshimura (1950-2013), who is known for his extraordinarily detailed pencil drawings, has opened at the…

Japan has a variety of themed-restaurants, and you can find anything you want. As it is almost Halloween in Japan, I thought that some horror-themed…

When you think of home, what comes to mind? An apartment in the city? A sofa and a TV? Children playing in the garden or…

Over the past few years, the Pokemon Company has been working with different prefectures to install a series of “Poke lids”. Poke lids are manhole…

At the family-run Japanese sweets shop Mutsumian 菓子処六味庵 in the city of Nanyō, Yamagata Prefecture, the pastry chef recently faced somewhat of a dilemma. Just…

At the start of 2019, glib businessmen’s lives were changed when the Pokemon Company and Silicon Valley based dress shirt maker, Original Stitch, began collaborating…

The next time you visit Shibuya’s famous Scramble Crossing, look at the QFRONT building. In particular, you’ll want to look 131 feet above ground level……

Have you heard of danshaku potatoes? Following the Meiji Restoration and until it was abolished in 1947, Japan had a peerage system called the kazoku…

The traditional Japanese theater performance of Noh is symbolized by the cypress wood masks worn by its practitioners. Although nearly 60 different Noh mask types…

Starting on October 1st and running until December 25th, an exhibition of ‘Sustainable Materials for a Circular Economy’ is being held at the Tokyo Axis…

A survey of leisure time activities has found that 65% of Japanese people don’t go anywhere at the weekend. The survey, which was conducted by…

Of the three execution grounds of Edo-era Tokyo, the busiest was Koppakatsu. It is said that 100-200,000 criminals were beheaded at Koppakatsu during the Tokugara…

Japan has no shortage of superstitious symbols. Like in other cultures, residents have traditionally attributed mythical qualities to various animals and their representations. Maneki neko,…

If you’ve been following Japanese manga, anime, or games, you probably already know that characters sporting kemonomimi 獣耳, or animal ears (and by extension, tails…