11 Culture Kosenji Temple Aline Laborde Kosenji temple is a Buddhist temple that celebrates the glory of Kusatsu Onsen. It is located up the hill from Yubatake (湯畑...
8 Culture Arisugawa Park Hannah Warren In Tokyo's ultra-chic neighborhood of Hiroo sits a small park, an escape from the madness and a place to sit and reflect. It...
9 Culture Nagai Botanical Gardens John Carter When visiting the Osaka Natural History Museum I was pleasantly surprised to discover a botanical garden encompasses the buil...
6 Culture Cosmos in the Kumamoto countryside Mandy Bartok The arrival of autumn signals the blooming of cosmos on the slopes of Mt Aso and the surrounding hills. These pink and fuschi...
Culture Holocaust Education in Fukuyama Mary Kawai It may be a surprise that Japan, estimated to have fewer than 1,000 residents following the Jewish faith, has a museum dedica...
12 Culture Senso-ji Temple at Asakusa Yoshiko Toyama Senso-ji is one of the oldest temples in Tokyo. Since the beginning of the Edo era, many people come here. The New Year's hol...
10 Culture Tokyo no Kage: Shadows in the City Allan Murphy "Drinking from an empty cup" is a Zen koan, a phrase to meditate on, along the lines of having something that isn't there. To...
9 Culture Fukusenji Temple Chris Barnes Fukusenji Temple is located on a hillside about five kilometers from Tono City and features a five story pagoda, many smaller...
18 Culture Tokyo Game Show: 2013 Report Hannah Warren Tokyo Game Show is the largest annual gaming convention in Asia. In 2013 it attracted a record number of exhibitions by 352 o...
9 Culture Itabashi festival Shehzad Lokhandwalla Japan has many street festivals in which a particular area of the city is set up with several attractions like stalls that se...
