Learning Japanese can be an exciting but challenging journey. With three writing systems (hiragana, katakana, and kanji) and ...

The Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, will present “Kimono: The Triumph of Japanese Dress,” an extraordinary exploration ...

The instrument manufacturing company Marusan Hashimoto in the city of Nagahama, Shiga Prefecture, is very busy making strings ...

Wear the yukata to the bath area, undress in the changing room, leave your yukata and belt in the baskets provided. While a ...

One can see many colorful sea slugs at Tatsunokuchi, a popular diving spot in the city of Nagasaki. I dove about 10 meters ...

The katana blade is forged by master swordsmith Teruhira Kamiyama, while the aogai (mother-of-pearl inlay technique using abalone, turban, pearl oyster and other shells) blue shell lacquer scabbard is ...

The sanshin can be heard in traditional Ryukyuan folk music or at graduations and other special ceremonies in Okinawa. Interestingly, sanshin scores use Kanji characters as notes. One of the most ...

Kanji is a traditional, fermented Indian drink made from black carrots, mustard seeds, and spices. It offers health benefits like improved digestion, boosted immunity, reduced inflammation, and weight ...

On his elbow and shin guards from adidas and there along the thumb of his new, green Mizuno glove is the Cardinals' outfielders middle name, in the Japanese writing style.

Fuzoku is a complex term to explain, and the two kanji characters that it’s written with aren’t very helpful. The first, 風, ...