The 2026 Japanese Language Teacher Exam is next month on Sunday, November 8th!It is getting closer, so how is the preparation ...

The traditional Japanese diet is a whole-foods-based diet rich in fish, seafood, and plant-based foods with minimal amounts of animal protein, added sugars, and fat. It’s based on traditional Japanese ...

Post World War II, architects like Kenzo Tange pioneered a new blend of tradition with modernism, sparking the influential Metabolist movement of the 1960s that imagined cities as organic, adaptable ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Akiko Katayama covers Japanese food and culture. Sushi has become a part of the American diet and people seem ready to discover ...

Heavy rain can damage roofs, so outside the entrance, amadoi gutters carry rainfall off the eaves and down the decorative kusaridoi, or “rain chain.” Shōji are lighter than fusuma, with paper affixed ...

With the translation of Japanese literature into English, new meaning is given to the texts which illuminates our understanding of Japanese culture Understanding Japanese culture has fascinated the ...

A young evacuee arrives in Lone Pine, California prior to being transferred by bus to Manzanar concentration camp, April 1, 1942. Photo by Clem Albers / National Archives and Records Administration ...

Among OECD countries, Japanese women have the lowest obesity rate of all, sitting at around 3%, while many Western nations report figures ten times higher. That kind of difference doesn't come from a ...

Takashi Wakasugi's offbeat sense of humour helps him pay the bills. After moving from Japan to Australia, Mr Wakasugi decided he'd combine his passion for comedy with the need to improve his English. ...

“Everybody loves Black celebrities, and they tell me how they want hafu children or how they want to be hafu. That fetishization is dangerous.”Credit... Supported by Photographs by Shina Peng Text by ...