Karuta is a Japanese card game developed about 400 years ago to amuse noble ladies of the court who were…
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The Lunar new year, or Chinese new year was celebrated with a spectacular parade in and around Sydney this evening…
The 66th annual Sapporo snow festival is in full swing at the moment in Japan, and the Japanese military has…
Why are some languages written from right to left and others from left to right? Let’s start at the beginning…
Setsubun is the day before the beginning of Spring in Japan, traditionally the 3rd of February. The name literally means “seasonal division”,…
With the coming of the 2015 new year, which happens to be the year of the sheep/goat, many Japanese classes…
The first three days of the new year are very special for the Japanese. The First 3 days of a…