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It's one of those small details that are rarely mentioned in tourist guides and that people only notice when they stop at some café to...
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The first time I came to Japan, in the summer of 2009, all public spots were filled with advertisements promoting Tokyo's bid for the 2016...
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Almost exactly three years ago, I had made from this very pages a prediction: I wrote “ as has been the case with all imported...
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Υesterday, I read a blog post by a Briton living in Japan for the last ten years; in it, the author was having a go...
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Living in the area that could arguably be called Tokyo's top tourist destination, this is something I see almost on a daily basis: visitors who...
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After a quarrel with her brother, the god of sea and thunder Susanoo no Mikoto (建速須佐之男命), Amaterasu Omikami (天照大神) the goddess of the sun hid...
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Like the manga, about which I wrote last year, another big pop export commodity of Japan, cosplay (コスプレ) is also among of the aspects of...
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In a little over a year from today, a big change is going to happen in the urban landscape of one of the most popular...
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Yes the cliché is true: the martial arts are indeed omnipresent in Japan. Especially the nine that Japanese authorities have agreed to call “Nihon Budo”...
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After earthquakes, the natural phenomenon that brings more concern to friends and relatives of expatriates living in Japan are typhoons; especially those living in Europe...
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I'm absolutely certain that no one among those who dream of Japan's houses with the tatami flooring, the sliding doors and the windows with the...
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Like last year and the one before it, this summer the magazines reporting on (and guiding) the new trends in Tokyo, devoted pages upon pages...
