Not only women but young men take time to set their hair in Japan. The recent trend hairstyle is short to medium short length “volume on top.” Adding volume…

  Here is a cool video of high school students who perform trash throwing tricks at school. They are in [W:Okinawa], and call themselves K.G.S.   [Part1]  

    Can you believe that you can paint the cherry blossoms above in only 5 minutes? There is this video on YouTube instructing how to paint Japanese style cherry…

  The fall has come and the weather has finally cooled down in Japan. The temperature had been over 35 degrees (95 F) and it was extremely hot this summer….

  Toilet tissues are sometimes folded into triangles, like in this photo below. Supposedly this fold signifies that “the cleaning is done”.     One day, a blogger thought that…

  The other day I wrote an article about the many unique flavors of Pepsi. This year’s flavor is baobab, a tree often associated with South Africa. It sounds very…

  Among Japanese gals, it is agreed that the bigger eyes you have, the more lovely you are. In every issue, gals’ magazines show how to make your eyes appear…

  Have you heard of small folded packets of fragrant incense called fumikou?  They are usually enclosed with letter paper in an envelope. The person who receives the letter enjoys the…

  In the past couple of years, young women wearing bows on their hair are often seen in Japan. Especially huge bows are popular because they make girls’ faces look…

  — ABOUT  Wasabi Stories… —   “Make Sure You Show Your Gratitude in Words” Today’s story-teller is Japanese famous actor Eiichiro Funakoshi. The story is about ‘food’. Firstly, it…

      Can you believe the brown ball on the book cover is a mud ball? It is only made of earth. In Japan, it is called “dorodango (mud…