Nowadays, marriage ring is one of things groom should never forget to prepare for his wedding ceremony in Japan, but as you can easily guess, wearing marriage ring is not…

This is carried out right next to a train track!Person in charge of train track management is standing behind the decorators.  They don’t just stop decorating ropes because it is…

The winter holidays are over and we have at last returned to the rhythms of normal daily life. This year, I didn’t return to my hometown (Sapporo, Japan) because it’s…

Torioi means driving off birds.  According to Miki, the photographer, it really looked like a bird being driven off in this event ^^This ritual started around 3 in the afternoon…

  LINE is a very popular instant messaging/free calling phone app which “began in 2011 as the brainchild of engineers at NHN Japan, the Japanese arm of Naver Corporation (formerly…

  2013 is drawing to a close, and soon we will be saying hello to 2014. Looking back from an international point of view, this past year’s biggest news is…

According to Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, over one million Japanese people currently reside abroad. The various cultures and the ways of living might be unfamiliar and hard to get…

  I assume readers of my blog are generally interested in Japanese tradition and culture, but do you know ‘sensu’ or Japanese ’hand-held fan’? I can almost hear you saying ‘what?  Of…

  A few months ago, I found a Japanese TV program that profiles Japanese women who are married to foreign men and live in their husbands’ countries. First, viewers see a featured…

  There are many examples of manners and etiquette particular to Japan. I would say gift giving is one of the most complicated and sensitive areas of Japanese etiquette. This is…

Here comes a flying red Chinese phoenix made by bamboo ～♪Taken at where believed to be the Asuka Itabukino-Miya Place. Copyright(C) Miki →Miki’s twitter← (English is OK)   This is JAPAN Style!