The Japanese cuisine has traditionally always spend a lot of time on the preparation of their food. When they pack lunch or get take-away, it often comes in the form of a a bento: a …

Tsukiji is the largest fish market in the world
If you would like to have a sneak peak at the way Tokyo trades its fish, you had better hurry up! The highly popular Tsukiji fish market …

“Fortune-telling is the practice of predicting the future, usually of an individual, through mystical or supernatural means and often for commercial gain.”
That is the straight-forward, uncompromising description that wikipedia offers anyone interested in this activity. …

Once upon a time there was a very strange looking, very scary looking, eel-like shark that lived in the depths of the ocean. Many people have never heard of this creature, let alone seen one.
Until …

Anyone that ever watched a Japanese movie or cartoon has seen images of those beautiful trees filled with little white flowers. They are cherry blossoms, or in Japanese sakura, and they are an integral part …

Halloween in Tokyo
Some said it was “just not Japanese” to trick-or-treat and since Japan already had its own festival to remember the dead: O-Bon, Halloween would never take off. But just like a lot of …