Archives for July 2021

JAPAN| In the Saitama Prefecture, a city named Gyoda has been turned into fantastic art to mark the beginning of the Tokyo Olympics. A more than a dozen officials from the Gyoda city office have planted different rice varieties to produce spectacular images that can be observed from a nearby observatory. The design is usually selected early in the year, and the actual … [Read more...] about Japan Begins The Tokyo Olympics Through Rice Field Art

Owing to the Covid-19 pandemic, one restriction that every journalist is coming to Japan to cover the Olympics was the 3-day short but challenging quarantine period on arrival. Members of the media undergo a quarantine paperwork check at Haneda Airport ahead in Tokyo at Olympic Games 2020. Well, but you could have your way around this so-called quarantine! People who … [Read more...] about Do you know what you will find missing when you arrive at Tokyo Olympics? It’s common sense!

A whale touring group from GojiraiwaKanko was presented with a pleasant surprise as they saw two white Orcas swimming together for the first time in many years! These two whales were spotted during a tour on July 24th in the Kunashirskiy Strait. Among the two, the older orca was seen for the first time a couple of years ago while the second was seen for the first time and … [Read more...] about Two rare white orcas are spotted off the coast of Japan

SINKANSEN| Riding the Shinkansen in Japan is always a fun experience. Not only does it go super-fast (you can totally feel those G-forces!), it’s also guaranteed to be quiet and incredibly clean. But with 323 Shinkansen trains departing from Tokyo every day, how do they find the time to clean all those trains? Well, it turns out that it takes a highly synchronised team of … [Read more...] about This is how Japan’s train-cleaning crews clean the Shinkansen in only seven minutes

The recent scientific report published in Nature has concluded that the Japanese are likely to have originated from the Minatogawa people that belonged to the Palaeolithic era. Well, they came to this consensus based on the study of a 20,000-year-old human named Minatogawa 1. This human was discovered in Okinawa in a limestone quarry in 1970. Replica of the Minatogawa … [Read more...] about Did Japanese Population Originate with this Paleolithic (Minatogawa) Man?

JAPAN| Imagine what would happen if the world around you suddenly shrank. What kind of life would it be like? It would be necessary to rebuild our homes from other things. Bugs would be a far more serious threat and travel would take longer. Tatsuya Tanaka in Japan creates miniature dioramas that show tiny people living in big worlds. Tatsuya creates fun and creative … [Read more...] about Japanese Artist Has Been Creating Miniature Dioramas Every Day For Seven Years (40+ Pics)

JAPAN| Highways are developed to make our travel to long distances and interchanges, or junctions, connect those highways to pass or change direction without much disturbance or interruption. In Japan, heavy mountainous terrain and dense cities create unique challenges; the truth is that interchanges are constructed as magnificent feats of structural engineering. … [Read more...] about Check out these Aerial photos showing the Sculptural beauty of Japanese Highway Interchanges.

Japan| Have you ever thought about what black and white photos do? They create a charm and nostalgia that leads to a certain disconnect between the past and present. When you look at them, you can easily forget that you are connected to that time by what is just a blink of an eye in history. It is then worth colorizing the old black and white photographs if only for … [Read more...] about Artificial Intelligence Colorization has brought the historic photos of Japan to life

Fashion is a big industry that flourishes all across the world! It comprises clothing and accessories that contribute to a considerable percentage of sales in many countries. To showcase them to the world to generate sales, what is required are models to wear and show them off to entice the public to purchase these things. You may feel that the job of a model is as easy as … [Read more...] about How to Become A Model As A Foreigner in Japan? Let’s explore

TOKYO| International travel may not be in the cards for the time being amid the COVID-19 pandemic, but Japan’s passport remains the most convenient, offering access to a record 193 countries without a visa, according to the 2021 Global Ranking in the Henley Passport Index. Singapore ranked second with 192 countries, followed by South Korea and Germany with 191 nations, … [Read more...] about Japanese Passport Is Now The Most Powerful In The World