Editorials

TANABATA: THE JAPANESE STAR FESTIVAL

Better known as the Festival of the Stars or the Festival of the Stars in Love , the Tanabata Matsuri continues to be one of the most loved and celebrated Japanese celebrations for centuries throug...

SUSHI AND JAPAN: 20 CURIOSITIES TO DISCOVER

Sushi is one of the most famous and typical dishes of Japanese cuisine , loved and appreciated today all over the world: a set of preparations based on rice, raw, cooked or marinated fish, meat, ve...

JAPANESE WRITING: FASHION, ART, DESIGN

How many times have you happened to be captivated by those fascinating Japanese characters and tried to guess what their meaning could be? We are talking about kanji (漢字): even if they may seem li...

SHINKANSEN: THE ICONIC AND FAST JAPANESE RAILWAY LINE

If you want to travel to Japan , observing its wonderful mountains or ocean beaches, you cannot ignore the very fast and punctual Japanese trains. We are talking about Shinkansen (新幹線), a name tha...

OPEN-AIR MUSEUMS: THE ARCHIPELAGO OF ART

In Japan there is a place where works of art are perfectly integrated with nature and the local landscape: it is Benesse Art Site , an experimental artistic project born around the mid-80s thanks ...

20 THINGS TO DO IN TOKYO DURING THE GOLDEN WEEK

Golden Week is a special week in the Japanese calendar , a "golden week", where four important holidays take place, which make it a central event of the year also for all Japanese workers. A T...

JAPANESE CARTOON FOOD: 50 UNFORGETTABLE RECIPES

As well as being a land characterized by an immense food culture , with its gastronomic tradition and many unique specialities, Japan is also certainly the home of manga and cartoons, anime and vi...

10 BOOKS SET IN JAPAN: NOVELS TO UNDERSTAND AND LOVE IT

Contemporary Japanese literature has grown widely throughout the world in recent years and certainly represents a fantastic way to immerse yourself in Japanese culture and travel with your mind to...

POST-COVID COWORKING BETWEEN ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN

With new technologies , remote working has become very simple and within everyone's reach. Thanks to the many programs, tools and software that are now extremely widespread and used for workflow ma...

THE JAPANESE MANIA FOR GACHA-GACHA SURPRISES

It is absolutely impossible for anyone visiting Japan to resist the temptation to insert a few coins into one of the many Gashapon (ガシャポン) , the typical gadget distributors located in every corner...