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Sakura and jellyfish: an unusual, but beautiful, combination. We’re still a few days away from the blossoming of the sakura in Tokyo, but there’s already a place in the city where you can see be…
From paintings, printmaking and muralism, there is an intensive influence Yayanagi has had over the last 50 years of Japanese art. From Whitestone Gallery, who has shown Yayanagi in the past:…
Comiket: a haven for otaku, cosplayers, self-published manga authors, and other doujin, or fans who unite to create things and enjoy shared interests. ▼ “[Announcement] The fourth day of Ai…
Customers must also undergo four-stage disinfecting process before being seated. Though many restaurants in Japan have transitioned to take-out service these days, eat-in dining i…
Approached Japanese man she met at cosplay event and offered to pay him to be her husband for visa purposes. In 2012, Canadian citizen Shannon Wong came to Japan on a four-year student visa…
You can find many of the fundamentals for sale at 100 yen shops, where, as you’d guess from the name, almost all items cost just 100 yen (US$0.92) plus tax. Our Japanese-language reporter G…
Visiting a cat cafe in Japan is a bucket list item for many tourists, but the animal cruelty that goes on behind closed doors should give you pause. By Aaron Baggett May 6, 2020 5 min readIt’s h…
Hidden within the mountaintop Saisho-ji Temple in Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture sits the mummified corpse of Kochi Hoin. Further inside is what looks like a mummified cat, but the temple insi…
Then again maybe it’s just my line of work, where miner mannequin idol groups and people licking cops are everyday occurrences, that has made me jaded. Given the nature of the story, however, it…
The object, they say, is to prevent a surge in the numbers of ‘Corona rikon’ (Corona divorce) the new trending phenomenon here in Japan. The concept of a woman’s realm is still very much alive i…
