This above image is copied straight from a website. Can you guess what  kind of website it is? Maybe a girls’ fashion web magazine or a website sharing information…

If you’re a uncle, auntie, father, mother, grandpa or grandma and do have younger people in your family, there is something you have to prepare for Japanese new year, which…

  A few months ago on this JAPAN Style blog, I wrote about “Kobito Zukan” (The Dwarf Encyclopedia).  It was originally a picture book for children. However, the dwarfs’ “kimo-kawa”…

   As you know, India is one of the most populous countries on earth. And because of this, maybe they are short on the number of trains needed to support…

  Toilets become entertainment spots!? This month at forty izakaya restaurants, Japanese game Corporation SEGA began trials of their unique new game called “Toylets”. Toylets is an electronic game device…

Today’s topic is about an offering box, which I found on one of my favorite Japanese websites for entertainment.   This is famous tourist site of Kanagawa prefecture, Enoshima Shrine…

  The other day, I wrote an article featuring some funny challenge videos (http://www.japanstyle.info/10/entry22534.html). This time around, let me share some more interesting videos (^o^)! The challenger has his own…

  “Otamatone” is a tadpole shaped digital musical instrument invented by a Japanese art unit Maywa Denki. (To read our past post about otamatone, click HERE) It’s been two years…

I think that many of you have studied the periodic table of the chemical elements when you were students. Remembering the elements is hard, but with the new playing cards…

A retro game arcade in Skyland Ikoma (Ikoma Sanjo Yuenchi), an amusement park that opened in 1929. While other amusement parks were closed, it is one of the rare parks…

  Durians are smelly. Very smelly. A blogger, Ms. K, wonders if she can play the “hidden object (durian) game” using only her sense of smell.  She heads immediately to…