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All About Japan and Japanese stuff! Find anime, music, castles, food, restaurants, videos, shopping, travel tips and more. New mega-feature every Monday!
Explore Japan's enduring spiritual history. All About Japan and Japanese stuff! Find anime, music, castles, food, restaurants, videos, shopping, travel tips and more. New mega-feature every Monday!
All About Japan and Japanese stuff! Find anime, music, castles, food, restaurants, videos, shopping, travel tips and more. New mega-feature every Monday!
All About Japan’s Top Five Tea-Producing Regions. Food & Drink Tea. Japanese tea, well-known worldwide for its delicate taste and health benefits, hails primarily from five Japanese prefectures. Get to know their different characteristics.
All About Japan and Japanese stuff! Find anime, music, castles, food, restaurants, videos, shopping, travel tips and more. New mega-feature every Monday!
Food & Drink Life in Japan. The first of a two-part series on where to buy ingredients for those dishes you miss the most. From tiny shops to on-line retailers and supermarket chains, Japan offers a wealth of sources from which to stock your pantry with foods from home.
Beyond its 20 spectacular World Cultural Heritage Sites, Japan has 21 traditions recognized by UNESCO as elements of Intangible Cultural Heritage.
In 1274 and 1281, Kublai Khan sent two massive navies to conquer Japan after the Kamakura shogunate (1185-1333) refused to submit to his rule. An estimated 30,000 to 40,000 men were sent in autumn 1274, harrying the islands and northern coast of Kyushu.
Japan has some amazing annual events and festivals you might want to see. The big ones are cherry blossoms in spring (late March to early April from Tokyo down; mid April to early May further north); fireworks displays and summer festivals in August; and changing leaves in late October to late November.
Some examples include: • Katsudon —a bowl of rice topped with a fried cutlet, egg and vegetables. The name is a combination of katsu, a breaded and fried cutlet, and donburi. • Oyakodon —this delicious dish's name is a bit macabre, since it literally means "parent and child rice bowl."