24 Hours in Nara: A Self-Guided Tour to Explore the City in One Day Plenty of people have heard of the city of Nara, but what they may not…
Osaka Shopping: How One Visionary Revolutionized Japanese Department Stores Hankyu department stores are one of the leading shopping destinations in all of Japan. Although…
Live Longer with the Black Eggs of Hakone’s Hell Valley Do you like eggs? Do you want to live a long time? According to certain…
Discover Eternal Happiness Among the 1,001 Statues of Kyoto’s Sanjusangen-do Kannon is the Japanese name for one of the most important deities in the Buddhist…
How Japanese TV Portrays Gay Men In September 2017, Fuji TV revived an old comedy character originally created in the 1980s…
Japan’s Fetish Festival: Four Unexpected Lessons We Learned At FetiFes As the old saying goes, there are different strokes for different folks, and all of them…
Knights in White Lycra: Staying Fit While Helping Children in Need Some years back, a group of British friends were sitting in a pub in Japan,…
What It’s Like to Be a Japanese Food Fighter Japanese people sure do seem to love food. They certainly consume enough of it, what…
M’s Pop Life: A Visit to Japan’s Biggest Sex Shop With the advent of the internet, brick-and-mortar sex shops have started to become less and less…
“What I Learned From Being a Japanese Porn Translator” “Ben” has been studying Japanese for more than 10 years now, both privately and academically.…
The Samurai Who Met the Pope History is weird and full of unexpected encounters your teachers probably never told you about.…
The Japanese Porn Industry: 5 Things We Learned at Japan Adult Expo The Japanese porn industry is estimated to be worth more than $20 billion, which shouldn’t…
The Grim Mystery of North Korean Ghost Ships Back in 2017, North Korea shocked the entire world by firing a missile over Japan’s…
Clearing the Air About Smoking in Japan Japan tends to top the lists of countries ranked by average life expectancy. This is…
Understanding Japanese Underwear Dirty Business Strolling through some of the backstreets of the Tokyo district of Ryogoku, the…
