There was no tip jar or prompt to tip on the credit card screen, as tipping isn’t part of the culture in Japan. I thought ...

Pounding and eating mochi offers good luck, health, prosperity and happiness.

Traveling to Park County from the suburbs of Tokyo for a two-year stint at the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center, Haruka Takaku has a list of goals to accomplish.

For many non-Japanese, especially newcomers to Japan, many of the customs and traditions of New Year may seem hard to understand. New Year or oshogatsu is the most important holiday period in Japan ...

Fall in love with the food, culture, nature, and people while exploring cities such as Tokyo, Nikko, and Okinawa.

More than 130 years after its inventor tried to introduce it in the U.S., whiskey made with a mold called koji is catching on ...

Japanese policymakers are increasingly anxious that the country's birth rate is nearing the point of no return.

Oosouji is a deep-cleaning practice rooted in Japanese culture that prepares homes, workplaces, and even temples for the New ...

Many of these practices are rooted in culinary traditions that have become deeply ... those hankering after their favourite oily balls. In Japan, come New Year’s Eve, families typically gather ...

For its 20th anniversary, Japan Habba celebrates "Everything Japan"! Japan Habba is home to 6 stages, 40+ events and experiences produced in-house, and 100+ stalls and experience zones that bring the ...