The other day, JAPAN Style announced the winners of the Manga Grand Prize 2010. Since I got interested in the grand winner manga, THERMAE ROMAE, I actually bought and…

  On March 22, the winners of the 2010 Space Shower Music Video Awards were announced. This award was held by Japanese music TV channel, Space Shower TV to decide…

On March 17, Manga Grand Prize 2010 (Manga Taisho in Japanese) was revealed. This award is held by Manga Taisho committee mostly consisting of the people who are take charge…

    In Japan, school starts in April and finishes in March. So many schools have graduation ceremony in these couple of weeks. It may be because students usually get…

I think there are some fashion leaders in your countries, especially for women. Of course, there are fashion leaders among Japanese women too.   Here is the “top 10 female…

    This Japanese cook book titled “Stories and Recipes of Local Cuisine in Japan” won the “Best Local Cookery Book in the World” at the GOURMAND Cookbook Awards in…

Have you seen the Hollywood version of DRAGON BALL?? The live action movie is called “Dragonball Evolution” and released about a year ago. By using the high computer technology, it…

Just in time for “Cat’s day” on February 22, a Japanese pet insurance company, Anicom Holdings, Inc. released “2010 Most Popular Cat’s Names Ranking”, which they conducted a surveyed of…

JAPAN Style previously posted an article about BENTO, Japanese lunch box. A home made bento usually has rice and various side dishes. Anything not so soupy or raw can be…

      This is the chart of “songs that cheers me up” surveyed by TSUTAYA online. In this chart, let me introduce a little bit of each song’s lyric…

    A board titled “The Movies to See Before You Die” seemed lively in Japan’s largest Internet forum “2channel”. Let me share some of the comments. It is not…