Oomisoka is how to call the New Year´s Eve in Japanese and is one of the very important event of a year for Japanese. What they do and how they spend the night?

You see even more drunk salary men in the train. Why? Because it´s Bounenkai season in December. So what is Bounenkai?

Today on the 12th of December, the Japan Association of Kanji announce the word of the year 2011. It´s Kizuna, means bond in Japanese.

In the night sky of Japan, there was the moon disappearing. It was a lunar eclipse, gesshoku in Japanese. How beautiful feeling the entire universe.

Tea ceremony is one of the Japanese traditional arts. It has many manners and cortecy to follow. Last Saturday, we had a ochakai in the suburb of Madrid.

Have you ever hard Japanese people shouting BANZAI with their hand rising in the air? And wondered what does it mean? Here is a little story about Banzai.

Today is the 22nd of November. What is special about today in Japan?

This is Sakura-Kan, my local sento bath in Oota-ku. It even has an open-air bath.

How many kanji do you need to read Japanese newspaper? And how can you memorize so many kanji? See how Japanese people see kanji.

Japan is apparently the country where has the most family names in the world. Where they come from? This is the first part about Japanese family names.