Osaka (Page 18)
One shinto shrine is making news around Japan for dressing their miko in a garment many had never seen before.
Dear Daniel joins Hello Kitty to bring cuteness and love to a collection of themed meals and drinks.
After living in Tokyo for ten years, our Osaka-born writer Seiji Nakazawa shares some experiences from his hometown he thought were normal but actually weren’t.
“Big” is looking to be the operative word for next year’s Japanese pop culture themed attractions.
From the shoes to the laces, along with shoehorns and bottles of polish, everything in this range is made from sweet chocolate.
Suspect denies touching victim for sexual reasons because he was “actually” trying to rob someone else.
And that’s even before the sticky liquid starts oozing out of it.
Famed Japanese politeness wraps so far back around that it ends up being pretty rude on Osaka train.
Foreigners complained that chefs at a restaurant in Osaka added up to two times more wasabi in their sushi when serving non-Japanese customers.
Survey suggests that east Japan and west Japan interpret the common invitation response in almost entirely opposite ways.
Because geisha and warriors are passé, we went to a photo shoot to look like figures of Hollywood’s golden age.
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