Category Archives: Others

The Popular Japanese Souvenirs Top 10

A Japanese TV show did a survey of foreign tourists in [W:Asakusa], Tokyo, and this is the result of the popular souvenirs top 10. #1: Jika-tabiJapanese traditional footwear known as…

Japan Loves Lottery!! — Year-End Lottery

    Do you like lotteries? Japanese people love takarakuji (lotteries)! Because salaries have decreased due to the recent recession, people might get more interest in lotteries today.  

Japanese Marriage Register Pressing Set — for Woman Who Has Indecisive Boyfriend

  Previously, JAPAN Style introduced the “Marriage Proposal Pressing Set”, which a woman gives her lover who wouldn’t propose her. The same company produced “Marriage Register Pressing Set” as a…

Japan’s Best Hotels — Female’s Choice Top 3

    Trip Advisor, a travel site, has announced their list of Japan’s Best Hotels, which was collected November 2008 to October 2009.   The Female’s Choice Top 3 are,…

Japanese Team Challenges GUINNESS for Huge Mosaic Art !!!

    The other day, I happened to find a unique event that will be going on in Japan in the end of the year. It’s a big project called…

Japan’s Best Hotels — Male’s Choice Top 3

Trip Advisor, a travel site, has announced their list of Japan’s Best Hotels, which was collected November 2008 to October 2009. The Male’s Choice Top 3 are….

What’s this!? Japanese Marriage Proposal Pressing Set

  It might sound weird to you but the new coinage “soshoku-kei danshi (herbivorous boy)” is a vogue-word now in Japan. It refers a man who is passive towards women.

Lang-8 — Multi-Lingual Language Exchange SNS

    The readers of this Blog (JAPAN Style) must be interested in Japanese culture, and those of you may be learning or want to learn Japanese. Learning another language…

A Sri Lankan Who Activates a Small Island’s (Ama) Tourism in Japan

For a busy city-dweller, this would be a possible vacation destination. Ama-cho, a small town in [W:Shimane Prefecture], is a quiet island with beautiful ocean and greens. In this island,…

Anjin: English Samurai, Tatsuya Fujiwara

  The story of William Adams who was Japan’s first English visitor is now played at Japanese theaters by Japanese and English theatergoers…  

Disposable and Reusable Japanese Pocket Warmers, KAIRO

    There are varieties of pocket warmers, called ”KAIRO” in Japanese sold in Japan, and you can get one at any convenience stores, supermarkets and drug stores. The major…

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