The inclusion of rice water in skin and hair care products has risen from the dead like anything in the past years. This ...

Wood ear mushrooms may not be a common ingredient in everyday Japanese home cooking, but they are believed to have been ...

O ne of the easiest ways to get a true sampling of the whole country is by booking a two-week cruise, which means you unpack ...

Before we’re old enough to even see over the dashboard, we learn that green means go and red means stop. This internationally recognized traffic light color system is standard in most of the world.

In a bid to attract visitors frustrated by Japan’s crowds, one coastal corner of Fukui prefecture offers genuine connection with locals over Japan's usual tourist tropes.

Muzan Kibutsuji, Demon Slayer's formidable antagonist, wasn't always a demon. Born in Japan's Heian Period, he battled a fatal illness. A doctor's experimental medicine, derived from the rare blue ...

The samurai, Japan’s celebrated lineage of warriors, emerged in the Heian period (794-1185), when the rise of their status enabled them to mingle with the refined nobility living in the then ...

Masaya Tanaka IN ENGLISH, THE word “kimono” means simply “the thing to wear,” and beginning in Japan’s Heian period (794-1185) and throughout the Edo period (1603-1868), during which the ...

However, the garment’s roots go back much further, during the Heian period, roughly between ... and imbue it with Japanese flair through cultural motifs. The style was popular among American ...

the book is seen as a window into Japanese nobility during the Heian Period (AD794-1185), Sei's idea of what is utsukushi still resonates with people today and is seen as one of the earliest ...

Vajrayana or Esoteric Buddhist and its attendant pantheon of deities and secret, mystical rituals, was introduced to Japan in the early Heian period (after 794) by a number of Japanese priests. They ...

Having been regarded as inferior in the Heian period, it had now achieved its status ... books sold well was due to the rise in literacy in Japan. Terakoya schools made a major contribution.