Recently in Japan, using “moe” mascot characters for community revitalization is becoming a trend. Aichi prefecture created some PR videos for Chita peninsula. A group of twelve moe characters called “Chita Musume”…

  Today, I would like to share  the report of a blogger, Mr. T, about “daimyo procession” held in a swimming pool. Daimyo is “a generic term referring to the…

  Early this month, the 29th Haji-sai festival was held at Washimiya Shrine in Kuki, Saitama Prefecture. The festival used to be a typical Japanese summer festival where local people…

Have you ever heard of the word Comiket? Recently a big 3-day Comiket was held in Tokyo, and over 500,000 people enjoyed it. Comiket is the shortened form of “comic…

  Here is information about cosplay events held in September and October.  I’m afraid that we can’t cover all events (there are just too many), but rather just the major ones….

This month, Japanese photographer Nobutsugu Sugiyama released an interesting iPad app (iPhone version will be on sale soon) called ”COSPLAY SHOWCASE”. This is a photo book style app based on the…

From this time on, we would like to periodically share information about upcoming cosplay events in Japan. I’m afraid that we will not be able to cover all events (there…

“Pray for Japan” has become a huge movement in the world. And now other movements are succeeding one after another. One of them is “Prayers from Cosplayers”. Sounds interesting, doesn’t…

Alcatraz E.R. is the craziest izakaya (Japanese style bar/pub) restaurant in Shibuya. It is themed prison-hospital, and filled with “psychopathic” atmosphere. Images are from machilog videos in YouTube   In…

The word “otaku” is now quite common, even outside of Japan. (Just in case you don’t know, here is the link to Wiki) There are many otaku people in the…

When you go to a Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) in Japan, you see the founder Colonel Sanders’ statue in front of the restaurant. He is called Colonel ojisan (uncle Colonel)…