What makes Japanese?Umebosi (Japanese salted plums)/梅干し
日本語は英語の下にあります。Japanese people love plum blossoms because of its aromatic fragrance and first blossoms after the lon...
Japan 101
What makes Japanese?
Cities & TownA boy waiting for…/焼き場に立つ少年
日本語は英語の下にあります。Have you ever seen this photo? It was taken in Nagasaki during the Greater East Asia War (the World W...
CultureObon/お盆
shouryou-uma 日本語は英語の下にあります。What’s Obon? InJapan, people believe that thespritsofthedead returntotheirhomesandfami...
CultureDo we need to ask Kami’s permission to enter mountains and beaches-called “Yama-biraki and Umi-biraki”?/山開きと海開き
日本語は英語の下にあります。 When do you ask permission from the god, deities or Kami? Japanese people ask for permission...
HeroesPrince Shotoku and Article seventeen of the Constitution /聖徳太子と十七条の憲法
Image of Prince Shotoku 日本語は英語の下にあります。Many Japanese think highly ofPrinceShotoku.It’s because he estab...
FoodTuna Roll
Red ones are Tuna roll. 日本語は英語の下にあります。Let’s see how to make Tekka-maki, or Tuna roll. Spread the rice...
CultureASIMO-Humanoid Robot/アシモ
日本語は英語の下にあります。Have you heard of the name of a humanoid robot, ASIMO?ASIMO is the abbreviation of Advanced Step in I...
CultureRokuyo- the 6-day calendar/六曜
Rokuyo Calendar 日本語は英語の下にあります。"Rokuyo" is a sequence of six days consisting of Sensho, Tomobiki, Senpu, Butsumetsu, ...
CultureJune bride/水無月の花嫁
Shiromuku with Wata-boushi Here is the video that the article is read aloud. We’d like to know your preference, ...
CultureHara-kiri/切腹
* Trigger warning: suicide 日本語は英語の下にあります。Harakiri literally means cut the belly.It is also translated as ritual ...