Summer is over, but I had to show this to you… Kentucky Fried Chicken is all over Japan and has become a common part of Japan’s fast food network of restaurants for years. It is the same as spotting a McDonald’s in a foreign country (just not as many). So what’s the big deal about KFC [...]
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Fuji Television Station, located in Odaiba, Tokyo is celebrating their 50th anniversary. And this summer as part of the celebration they have their summer vacation event called the “United States of Odaiba” running from July 18th to August 31st. Fuji Television Basically, the Odaiba area has been broken into four event areas or states. In each [...]
At the rate that Stitch products are produced in this country, I could probably run a blog just on this topic. Anyway, I just wanted cover three recent products that I found to be quite interesting. All three follow a basic summer theme. The other day I popped into the Disney Store for just a few [...]
One of the top three biggest festivals in Japan includes Aomori Prefecture’s Nebuta Festival held in August. The festival is famous for its massive lantern floats. The festival events lasts for seven days with these huge man-powered floats making their rounds on the streets at night almost scraping buildings as they move along. It takes [...]
In the past few years, Inakadate Village in Aomori Prefecture has been getting a lot of publicity during the summer. Why? It is because of their unique way of planting rice. They use three or four different kinds of rice plants, basically different colors, to create a MASSIVE picture display on several rice paddies. It [...]
July 7th in Japan is known as “Tanabata” or ‘Star Festival’. Tanabata is explained through a Japanese legend, with its origins from China. Two stars Hikoboshi (Altair / the cow herder star) and Orihime (Vega / the weaving princess) fall deeply in love, but are separated by “Amanogawa” (Milky Way / Heaven’s River). They [...]
