FEATURED
Melonpan: The Japan Sweet Bread’s Armenian History
Melonpan, the sweet baked good that delights people across East Asia, was the creation of one Armenian man living in the diaspora…
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FEATURED
Melonpan, the sweet baked good that delights people across East Asia, was the creation of one Armenian man living in the diaspora…
BOOK REVIEWS
Winifred Bird's Eating Wild Japan is an in-depth, humanistic, and fascinating journey across the wilds of the country in search of foraging.
HISTORY
Too often, history leaves out the Japanese women who left their mark on the world around them. Meet Lady Onami, who led…
FOOD
Hundreds of years before Red Bull, the samurai of the house of Date were drinking a powdered concoction said to replenish a…
HISTORY
To this day, a rivalry exists between the northern Japanese prefectures of Aomori and Iwate. And its source? A bunch of trees.
JAPANESE LANGUAGE
Why a wide range of local dialects in Japan's north are intrinsically - and unfairly - associated with rural backwardness.
TRAVEL
The Local Acts initiative is helping promote prefectures through pokemon, including many that were affected by the Tohoku Earthquake.
SOCIAL MEDIA
From the humorous to the reflective, people in Japan took to Twitter to share their experiences of this weekend's strong earthquake.