Have you heard of “melody road” in Japan? It is a strange asphalt road that makes a musical tunes when a car runs on it. It is expected to…

  In Japan, temaki sushi is a popular family dinner or home party. Temaki literally means hand-roll, and we usually call the sushi style in one word “temaki-zushi,” and refer…

  Are you familiar with the dish called “hamburg steak”? It sounds like a traditional German dish, but this is a good example of a Japan-style western dish^^. I guess…

  Pekoppa are toy plants that nod when you talk to. They sense the intervals of conversations and nod at the right timing. Pekoppa are so smart that they change…

  Since the quake, there has been a tendency to restrain regular TV commercials. Stations replaced regular TV commercials with ones by a nonprofit organization called AC Japan. Just some…

  NINJA AKASAKA is one of the popular attraction restaurants in Tokyo. In the “17th-century Edo town” themed restaurant, Ninjas serve, cook and perform tricks! They serve Japanese based international…

  The video below is a slideshow of Japanese confectionery art. Japanese confectionery is called wagashi in Japanese. This video especially introduces “kogei-gashi” meaning “confectionery craft” unlike everyday wagashi such…

Recently, “Pray for Japan” has become a huge movement in the world. Thank you very much, everyone!  We still keep praying for Japan. And also, now is the time to…

On the third day since the earthquake and tsunami, TV news broadcasts a scene of three elderly people being rescued from an isolated and damaged house in Iwate prefecture. One…

  Japanese student team Skeletonics Production Committee made “action-extend” suit, named Skeletonics, which a combined word of skeleton and mechanics. End of the last month, they announced the completion of…

Japanese were not the only ones who experienced the disaster. There are more than 2 million foreigners live in Japan, and many of them experienced the tremor when it hit…