Snap!Japan - Japan in a Snap!

The creatures called "gyaru" (teenage girls who hang out in the youth spots in Tokyo) have their own slang language that morphs ra...

Manzai duo " Panku Bubu " won the M1 Grandprix this year, in a unanimous decision over Waraimeshi and Non Style. I was rooting fo...

One fun and unique feature of Japanese language is the ease with which you can create easy-to-remember phrases from numbers. I assembled a l...

Kanako Yanagihara is so popular these days, that shop assistants are starting to impersonate her right back! I heard a shop full of assist...

The elections are again upon us here in Japan, and the satirists are hard at work writing Senryuu (川柳) poems about the subject. Senryuu are ...

I noticed something interesting. The JR East Japan announcements about the next station are done in a female voice, and she used to say the ...

The third Monday in July is "Marine Day" here in Japan, called " Umi no Hi " (海の日) in Japanese. It was established in 19...

My wife and I did our yearly "kenkoshindan" health check via our insurance provider the other day. If you are on the national insu...

At least that is what they tell me! I like Japan and have had some interesting, enjoyable and indeed unique experiences here, otherwise I w...

Mezamashi TV had a segment on the lastest gyaru language. If you're not familiar, gyaru are the sort of schoolgirls who hang out in Sh...

Japan morning TV reported that "One Coin" (ワンコイン) services are all the rage these days in Japan, due to the down economy. What thi...

Artist Bunpei Yorifuji (寄藤文平) is creating a series of manner posters for the Tokyo metro, around the theme of " Do It At Home "....

I purchased Ray-Out 's reasonably-priced leather " Jacket " case, model RT-P1LC4/B , perhaps three months ago from Yodobashi C...

" Drop " is a horror story novella written by Koji Suzuki , the writer of best-selling horror stories such as "Ring" and...

I've seen this good, energetic " Street Jazz " trio at JR Shinjuku before, but today I waited for a good moment and got some m...

Every year, we have a family reunion during the New Year holiday " oshogatsu ". The photo in this post is of the 2009 edition. ...

The Pharmaceutical Affairs Law "PAL" was revised to allow convenience stores like 7-11, Lawson, Family Mart or others to sell mo...

Dai-ichi Life Insurance has announced their latest Sarariiman Senryuu (Salaried Worker Senryuu, サラリーマン川柳) competition winners . It's t...

Kazuo Zaitsu (kanji: 財津和夫) of the Japanese band Tulip, is the singer of a favorite song of mine, " Saboten no Hana " or The Cact...

Vollmer Design 's superior map of the Tokyo rail and subway system is a must for any visitor to or resident of Tokyo. The map is printe...