Nature & Culture of Japan

To make your trip to Japan more interesting

Is Osaka the most noisy city of cicadas in the world?

In 2003, I had a survey of cicadas in big cities in Japan and South Korea. The scenery of the city is rather similar, but the cicadas that scream there are surprisingly different. Sendai and Seoul had many green cicadas…

Raw horse meat

Previously, when I went out for dinner with visitors from North America, one of the most rejected was horse meat. In particular, a friend from Canada who lived in Japan for about two years and worked with me together said,…