Cosplayers are easy to find during video games, films and comic books fairs. Cosplay has been invented by Star Trek and Star Wars fans in the United States. But it quickly came to Japan.

Mike Matas is an american interface designer and icon artist. He realised the following video with 4,000 of the pictures he took during this holidays in Japan with his girlfriend. They went through Kyoto, Nara, Hakone to get to Tokyo.

Today, Japanese people celebrate White Day! It is the answer to Valentine’s Day, the following month.

One year is already gone since that sad event happened. Destiny had no mercy for Japan. Earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster. Even if the suject is very present on news media, it is difficult for us not to say anything.

Japanese people don’t only pay attention to the visual aspect of their bento, they also care about how their pastries look like.

Here is an origami crane tutorial. Crane is a basic in origami making.

A few days ago, on february 3rd, Japanese people were celebrating Setsubun. This celebration signals the beginning of Spring. That may be quite hard to believe while we are living the cold wave in all Europe.

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During the last weeks this video circumnavigated the web. It is quite out of the ordinary.

In Japan, Kawaii means something in between adorable and cute. Japanese people prononce each syllable separate and insist on the letter i.

This word is very popular, it is used to qualify people (even adults), manga characters and even clothes.

Goro Miyazaki’s From Up on Poppy Hill release is an oportunity for looking back to his dad’s films. Food is everywhere in Hayao Miyazaki’s films. Spirited Away is the perfect exemple with the parents becoming pigs when they are eating huge amonts of food very quickly.