The strongest earthquake ever recorded in Japan triggered an even more devastating tsunami. The death toll is going to increase every day, for several days ahead. The final account of this horrific event will be appalling: thousands of people dead, hundreds of thousand crippled or injured or hurt or ruined or somehow screwed up. Nuclear facilities…
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Very slowly the alert level is lowering and it was officially downgraded the alert level for tsunamis and fingers crossed, but for now it is too early to say, it would seem that the problem at Fukushima reactor has stabilized . The question is : Now what happens. The real tsunami in Japan will hit now the economy….
Read More →February 23 has been designated Mt Fuji Day in Japan. The almost perfectly shaped volcano is a national icon, attracting hordes of tourists to Shizuoka Prefecture every year. Mount Fuji is the highest mountain in Japan with a height of 3776 meters, on the border between Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures, with an almost perfectly conical volcano…
Read More →On February 3 is the famous festival of Setsubun. One of the many traditions that japanese people follow during this holiday is to eat a Eho-maki. : in this tradition, you need to eat this kind of food all in a row looking towards successful year, that for this year 2011 is south-southeast. Setsubun (Bean-Throwing Festival…
Read More →The origin of the Yakuza is a pretty controversial topic : some believe that members of the Japanese mafia derived from kabuki-mono, the seventeenth-century samurai serving the Shogun that during the Tokugawa era (one of the most peaceful periods in the history of Japan), became ronin, coalescing in communities devoted to management of gambling and other…
Read More →This is the last invention from the famous Toto, for travelers who now can not do without their bathrooms with a jet of water to clean after their intimate bisognini. At the price of 7,980 yen and weighing less than 250g ( that’s almost like the weight of a typical Japanese mobile phone ) the new Toto…
Read More →Pachinko is a gambling game, a kind of pinball, but requires no skill : just hold your hand and watch the winnings or losses. Pachinko machines can be found in pachinko parlors which are spread over Tokyo, but also in the whole Japan. You can recognize parlors easily because they are bright and colorful. Inside a…
Read More →Christmas was introduced in Japan by the Christian missionaries and for many years the only people who celebrated it were those who had turned to the Christian faith. But now the Christmas season in Japan is full of meaning and is almost universally observed. The idea of exchanging gifts seems to appeal strongly to the…
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