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Japan Photography Alert – Adult’s Day AKA Coming of Age Day

Monday, January 10th will be Coming of Age Day, also known as Adult’s Day in Japan. It is the day that young people celebrate officially becoming adults. Traditionally they gather at their hometown City Hall wearing very fine kimonos, suits, or other fashionable clothing. In larger cities, they gather at local ward offices. Since new…

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TV Asahi New Year’s Show Forgets the Countdown

This is the extreme of teachers teaching through the end of class bell. On the Terebi Asahi (TV Asahi) tv show, Akira Ikegami, a journalist was speaking during the Manaberu News Show, or the Learning News Show. (For the record, he’s explaining the difference between stocks and corporate bonds.) Please watch for yourself… the explanation…

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Recommended Japanese Films on Netflix

Netflix is the leading DVD rental by mail and movie streaming service in the United States. They offer popular movies, tv shows, foreign films, documentaries, and a wide selection of pretty much everything video. You can watch Netflix on most home video game systems, on your computer, and many internet enabled TVs. Japanese movies number…

Daimonji or Gozan no Okuribi Kyoto Obon Festival Google Logo

One of Google’s special logos or doodles recently paid tribute to the Daimonji Festival in Kyoto. It is held just at the end of the Obon festival. During Obon (one of Japan’s biggest travel seasons), people often return to their hometowns, hold family reunions, and await the return of the spirits of their ancestors. Special…

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Top 10 Reasons It’s Great to be Japanese (According to Japanese Women in Their 20s)

This is a translation of a poll done in which women in their 20s were asked about the moments they felt glad to have been born Japanese. Here’s the list: Being moved by the deliciousness of rice and miso soup. / Eating Japanese food. Regularly bathing in hot water. / Taking hot baths and entering…