Articles

Welcome to Raumen Stadium in Canal City

At gourmet food court Raumen Stadium, eight of Japanes top ramen shops vie to dish up the tastiest noodles. What better way to savor ramens incredible regional differences, without...

Hakozaki Tororo

Japanese Power Food Those huge, off-white, giant carrot-like vegetables that you see on supermarket shelves across Japan are yamaimo (Japanese mountain potato). They can be peeled,...

Welcome to the Neo-Nipponesque New Year

Just a few more sleeps ’til New Year, that midwinter break that schoolkids, senators and salarymen are holding their breath for. Traditionally, New Year’s Eve was a sob...

Christmas in Japan

by Satoshi Kawase For all the talk about the commercialization of Christmas in our modern times the fact remains that it is, indelibly, a Christian holiday. It is the day we celebr...

Oita-Kuju-

Winter wonderland, just a slip-slide away Compared to Hokkaido, Kyushu seems perpetually warm just being further south is enough to suggest we have year-round summers. In reality o...

Mt. Unzen Where Frost Flowers Rule Supreme

You loved Japan’s endless displays of fireworks in summer; you thought winter’s Christmas lights were pretty snazzy (not to mention romantic). But you’ll admit fe...

Martial Arts

for Physical and Spritual Strength Martial arts. The Oxford English Reference Dictionary defines them simply as “fighting sports such as Karate and Judo.” The essence o...

Fuzz

Catch the Fuzz “Atomic design from the 60’s is how owners Juichiro and Mami describe the interior of their tiny but detail rich “”60’s music bar”...