The Imperial Palace: Edo Castle - Tokyo, Kanto, Japan
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
Japanese Castle Tour
Edo Period
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Gaijin Bochi: Foreigners’ Graveyard
Japundit (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
When is a graveyard likely to be filled with tourists snapping pictures? When it’s a gaijin bochi, or “foreigners’ graveyard,” which you can see in several old Japanese cities that have had Westerners living there for a long time, like Yokohama, Kobe and Hakodate. Japanese burial rites involve cremation and placing the bones and ashes [...]
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Yubikiri Genman, the Pinky Promise
Japundit (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
Do you know the Japanese Pinky Promise? It’s a similar to the “Make a promise/Hope to die/Stick a needle in your eye” song I learned while growing up. Hook your pinky with someone else’s and chant the song, which goes, “Pinky Promise, if you lie, I will make you swallow 1000 needles.” (If you want [...]
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Kyoto Furoshiki Store Karakusaya
Kyoto Foodie (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
Kyoto Furoshiki Store Karakusaya (唐草屋) The furoshiki wrapping cloth is both utilitarian and beautiful. In daily life it is used to wrap and carry lunch boxes to work or picnics and on special occasions for wrapping gifts of food and drink. We want to do some articles that examine the other, non-edible things that are a distinct [...]
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Doyo Ushinohi: Unagi Eel Day, July 24th
Kyoto Foodie (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Doyo Ushinohi: Unagi Eel Day, July 24th うなぎ土用丑の日 Unagi, or freshwater eel, is a very popular food in contemporary Japan and there is a dedicated ‘Eel Day’ in mid-summer (this year July 24th) on which most Japanese eat unagi. This article tells about the development of unagi cuisine and history of the Ushinohi ‘Eel Day’ custom. This [...]
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No smoking. . . If you can
Japundit (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
The other day I ate soba noodles for lunch, and I was amused at a sign I saw above my head, which said narubeku kin’en, translatable as “No Smoking As Possible, Please.” I found it quite amusing for the restaurant owners to ask customers not to smoke “if they can possibly avoid it.” Although smoking [...]
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Yakuza 3 Returns Series to Modern Tokyo
Game|Life (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008 | Video Games
Yakuza 2 isn't even out in the U.S. yet, but series creator Toshihiro Nagoshi is already hard at work on Yakuza 3, which promises to bring the crime series back to modern times. Details have emerged regarding the true follow-up...
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JAPANESE MATHEMATICIAN: SEKI KOWA
Cambridge Forecast Group Blog (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
Seki Kōwa or Seki Takakazu (born 1637/1642? – October 24, 1708) Seki Kōwa or Seki Takakazu (born 1637/1642? – October 24, 1708) was a Japanese mathematician who created a new mathematical notation system and used it to discover many of the theorems and theories that [...]
