Japan 101

Culture

What does a Japan postbox look like? /日本の郵便ポストはどんな風。

Left: postbox at Ueno Park, middle: anywhere, right: the one in Shinagawa station 日本語は英語の下にあります。 What color of y...
What makes Japanese?

How to cook Sukiyaki ?/すき焼きの作り方

SUKIYAKI's ingredients: sliced beef, grilled tofu, leek, Shitake and Enoki mushroom, bamboo sprout, Shirataki arum root...
Culture

How do you spend New Year?/新年の過ごし方

The New Year Greeting held on January 2ndof 2018. 日本語は英語の下にあります。 One of the most anticipated activities to welcom...
2022.06.07
Culture

How do Japanese spend New Year’s Eve?/日本人は大晦日はどう過ごす?

Shot at Chion-in temple in 2017 日本語は英語の後にあります。 Japanese New Year’s Eve is very quiet. It means fireworks displays...
Culture

What’s Sanbon-jime?/三本締めってなあに。

日本語は英語の下にあります。 Do you have any practice to do at the end of the party in your country? Here in Japan, Sanbon-...
Culture

What if your friend invites you to attend the tea ceremony?/もし友達が茶道に誘ってくれたら…

Japanese sweets that you eat before you drink the tea. What if your friend invites you to attend the tea ceremony?Ar...
Heroes

Prince Shotoku and Article seventeen of the Constitution /聖徳太子と十七条の憲法 No.5

Five storied Pagoda in Horyuji Temple In this article, we will see Prince Shotoku’s ardent desire and the article 12...
2022.01.24
What makes Japanese?

The best hospitality at GINZA KYUBEY-Sushi Restaurant/銀座久兵衛のおもてなし

For some Japanese people, GINZA KYUBEY is a well-known sushi restaurant which offers the best hospitality. KYUBE...
What's TODAY?

It’s better to eat newly harvested rice right after Labor Thanksgiving Day./新米は勤労感謝の日の後に

The offerings sent from all over Japan were displayed in the premises of Meiji Jingu, a Shinto Shrine.  Labor Thanks...
Culture

Was Japan’s National Anthem a love song?/「君が代」は愛の歌?

The boulders made of pebbles in Ohmi Shrine/大御神社のさざれ石の巌 日本語は英語の下にあります。Do you know the oldest national anthem in the ...