Royal Hotel Co., Ltd. has announced plans to open Noir by RIHGA Kobe Arima, a new hot spring resort under the Noir by RIHGA ...

Online travel agency Booking.com has released its list of ten “Travel Predictions” for 2026. Based on a survey of around ...

For residents and visitors to Tokyo, the closest isle worthy of the Cat Island designation lies in Kanagawa Prefecture, the capital’s neighbor to the south. Enoshima, which can be accessed from a ...

As I walked toward the center of the cascading waterfalls, severe coldness gripped my feet, and the rhythmic chants of a Shinto priest disappeared under the sounds of torrents pounding the rocky ...

Yes, that’s right. Bear attacks and encounters were such a popular news item in the Land of the Rising Sun last year, it was almost comparable to COVID-19 and Trump updates. Bear encounters have been ...

For the next thousand years, Japanese paper folding was largely restricted to religious ceremonial use, as paper was expensive. However, paper-making was one of the many industries that flourished ...

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%BA%90%E6%B0%8F Japanese commoners had no official surnames all the way until the Meiji Restoration (1868), meaning the acquisition ...

Tales of the samurai are synonymous with swordsmen around the world, but in fact some of Japan’s most celebrated warriors were women. Technically, women couldn’t become samurai. But samurai was a ...

雖然台灣也有所謂的路隊，讓小學生自己上下學，但通常多集中在家裡離學校真的很近的學生，或是中高年級生，低年級生一般還是多由家長接送。這一點在日本則不太一樣，日本的家長從小孩 ...

Robin Lewis walking on the Fukushima Coastal Trail at Nakoso Beach. When Robin Takashi Lewis first heard about the historic earthquake and tsunami that devastated northern Japan in 2011, his first ...

良品計畫株式會社以零售製造業者之姿，從商品企劃、製造、流通至銷售，「無印良品」品牌成功推向大眾生活裡，不僅在日本國內擁有許多店鋪，更揚名海外。從衣著類至生活雜貨到食品，用 ...

Another precursor to Japan’s janken was mushiken where players would choose from three different hand signs—a snail (left), a frog (middle) or a snake (right ...