Culture Fireworks
I guess everyone knows fireworks were invented in China and are said to have been meant to ward off evil spirits. They a...
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Culture No Ninjas Needed
Like countries everywhere, there has long been a migration of people in Japan from the rural areas to the big cities. Es...
Culture Things You Can Do In Japan
... that you wouldn't do in North America.
There are things you can do in Japan that you can't do in North America. It n...
Culture Fortune
It’s always hard to separate suspicion from religion and ritual and to know how seriously people take them. In Japan, it...
Culture Why Japan
Why did you come to Japan ?I’ve always blamed Pam Horino and her sisters, Nikki Saito and JoAnne Otsuki. I admit that th...
Culture Japan : The Big Picture part 2
The Land of the Rising Sun
The word "Japan," for you crossword puzzle and Scrabble fans, is an exonym for the land of ...
Culture Japan: The Big Picture
Japan: The Big Picture
The White House couldn’t receive a tsunami of mail, a big storm in the Pacific wouldn’t be a typh...