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Today in Kawasaki city near Tokyo, Kanamara festival is held. This is the event you see men´s genitals every corner. Is that a pure sex p...

Japan is a country of rain and there are several different onomatopoeias to describe the type of rain. Today here, it´s raining shito shi...

There are many Portuguese origin words in Japanese since the first European arrived at Japan was a Portuguese man. Then you think, eh tha...

There are things that we use everyday and don´t even think there are people who design those stuff, like sugar packets or matchboxes. Tak...

23rd of May is Kiss Day in Japan. Why kiss day? It started just after the WII because of a film of the Japanese director Yasushi Sasaki.

Guess what day is the 4th of April in Japan? First let´s think how do you say 4 in Japanese. It came out that this day is the day of many...

Do you know what day is the 22nd of February in Japan? It´s Neko no Hi (Cats´ Day). Why?

During shougatsu period, Japanese people decorate their house with good luck ornaments. What are they?

Oomisoka is how to call the New Year´s Eve in Japanese and is one of the very important event of a year for Japanese. What they do and ho...

Do you know how to say "my wife" in Japanese? Actually there are many ways of saying it and why?

Have you ever hard Japanese people shouting BANZAI with their hand rising in the air? And wondered what does it mean? Here is a little st...

Tonight is the harvest moon night and it´s called chuushuu no meigetsu in Japan. What Japanese people eat? How they celebrate?

Wow, you poor thing, William... ¨Poor thing¨ I thought. But why? He´s just losing his hair in his late 20´s and from the look at it,...

One of those things that I notice in overseas is the sound of people. Not only they speak louder than Japanese but also I notice how...

Today, the 5th of May is Kodomo no Hi (Children's Day) in Japan. It says Children's Day but this is actually Boys' Day. What Japanese peo...

Meyami Jizo (めやみ地蔵) is a Budhisattvas for eyes and people who have problems with their eyes come here to pray. Me-yami means sicken eyes ...

Momo no Sekku is the Girls' Day in Japan on the 3rd of March and is one of the Japanese traditional events which wishes the healthy growt...