Today, the 8th of December is the day of Harikuyo. It is the day to thank all the needles you use during the year.

Kazuhiko Okushita is another single stroke drawing artist. His works extend to animation. Akai Ito, which made him popular became a favourite image of Bill Gates and James Cameron.

Japanese people are known as workaholic. But one of the large enterprises, Kagome has decided no Zangyo after 8. Will this stop Japan´s overtime work era?

I went to a screening called HAFU. Japan is a developed modern country but it seems like they are struggling to identify the identity as Japanese. Is it so important to look the same to be Japanese? It made me think to be Japanese and what is to be Japanese.

People are talking about Japanese girls look all the same and call them Ryosangata Joshidaisei (mass production female university students). They even call these girls creepy. But does this happen only to Japanese girls or in Japan?

Shuji Nakayma was one of the three Japanese physics who recently won the Nobel Prize in 2014. But now Japan is unsure if they should celebrate for him because of his nationality status.

Japanese in the world No.2 is a Japanese teacher / translator, Makiko Sese. She told iromegane how beautiful Japanese language is with lots of interesting and funny stories.

Being a women in Japanese business scene is harder than any other countries? Why? A Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly showed a few days ago showed us a little bit of reality.

A new project from iromegane, Japanese in the World. The first episode is two Japanese illustrators who recently start their new life in Berlin, Germany.

Apparently Japanese lie a lot, the fourth in the world. Why they lie? What is the concept of lying for Japanese? What does Uso mo Houben mean?