December 8, 2021
Small truck camper enthusiasts from Hokkaido to Osaka gathered to show off their mini-DIY campers, at Geto Kogen Resort in Kitakami, Iwate Prefecture, in mid-October. Twenty-eight light trucks and on...
The city of Honjo in Saitama Prefecture sits in an important area in terms of ancient history, with more than 600 confirmed ancient tombs, 30% of which have been found with haniwa clay figures in them...
A book written by the then teenage author Naoki Higashida 15 years ago has appeared in a new form in Japan this spring, as a film adaptation by a British director. Now that it has been read in many pa...
In the early Edo period, Hasekura Rokuemon Tsunenaga, a samurai and retainer of Sendai daimyo Date Masamune, traveled to Spain and Rome at the behest of Masamune, who wanted trade with Mexico, which w...
Noh and kyogen are sometimes likened to twins among traditional Japanese performing arts. Roughly speaking, noh plays are tragedies, and kyogen plays are comedies. Currently, kyogen has two major scho...
