During this time of year in Japan, there are many summer festivals. From the north to the south, each area has its own summer festival that it celebrates with splendor. However this year, there is a special summer festival called “Tohoku Rokkon Festival”. The summer festival of the six souls of the Tohoku(northeast region of [...]

After July 10, a wide variety of summer festivals will be taken place in any town or village in Japan. Some of them are very old history and have an honorable origin, and some of them are small and local summer festivals. So each area has its own summer festival. Speaking of summer festival in [...]

JR Kyushu Shinkansen (bullet train) opened memorial CM won the gold award for outdoor and the silver award for media at Cannes International Advertising Festival also known as Cannes Lions. The Kyushu Shinkansen opened all lines on March 12, 2011 and the CM is to celebrate the opening of the Kyushu Shinkansen. However and unfortunately [...]

20th Yosakoi Soan Festival is held on June 8 to 12 in Sapporo. People from all around Hokkaido and also from across Japan dance with local folk music called Soran-bushi Yosakoi Soran Festival is a combination of Yosakoi Festival from Kouchi prefecture and Soran-bushi(Hokkaido’s local folk music). Since the first Yosakoi Soran Festival in 1992, [...]

About three months have passed since the nuclear accident at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, and what is the latest state of the Fukushima Daiichi plant? NHK has just released the newest video footage of the Fukushima Daiichi plant. The video footage shows the workers working in the accident site and the damaged reactor buildings. [...]