Forest

Japanese City Is Planning To Buy The Forest That Inspired Totoro To Preserve It

June 29, 2022 by Japan Informer

A Japanese city has launched an online campaign to save a particular area of forest that was the inspiration for the animator in the cult film "My Neighbor Totoro." Tokorozawa, a town outside of Tokyo, has decided to purchase the "Totoro Forest" for a massive sum of 2.6 Billion yen or (19 million yen). What's more impressive is that some amount was also chipped in through … [Read more...] about Japanese City Is Planning To Buy The Forest That Inspired Totoro To Preserve It

15 Facts You Didn’t Know About Aokigahara, The Japanese Suicide Forest

June 22, 2022 by Japan Informer

Aokigahara is 13.5 miles northwest of Mount Fuji. It's a forest so dense with leaves that it's called the "sea of trees." Many people walk into the sea of trees without any intention of returning and mark the place as their resting site. The forest is infamously also known as the "Japanese Suicide Forest".For some, the forest acts as a rich hiking spot, with its unrivaled … [Read more...] about 15 Facts You Didn’t Know About Aokigahara, The Japanese Suicide Forest

10 Reasons Why The Japanese Live Longer Than Any Other People On Earth

It’s no secret that the people of the land of the rising sun tend to outlive pretty much everyone else. For years, people in the West have been looking at the Japanese and scratching their heads, witnessing as Japan rose from having one of the lowest life expectancies post-WWII to topping the charts globally. What […]

Tokyo ramen restaurant bans customers from using their phones

Customers at DEBU-CHAN, a ramen restaurant located in Tokyo’s fiercely competitive “ramen battlefield,” are no longer allowed to watch videos on their phones while dining. The restaurant’s owner, Kota Kai, introduced this new rule last month after he observed that customers who watched videos took longer to start eating. While he understands that some customers […]

Somebody In Osama Bin Laden’s Compound Loved Anime And Pirated Sexy Games, Released Files Show

Today, the CIA released nearly 470,000 files recovered from the Pakistan compound where terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden was killed in a raid conducted by U.S. forces in 2011. The data released contains Al-Qaeda correspondence, videos, audio files, and operating systems from devices seized in the Abbottabad compound. CIA Director Mike Pompeo, who authorized the released, says […]

The Cutest 4-Year-Old In Japan And Her Adorable Adventures

Being an adult is tough and there’s no unsubscribe link. Luckily, you can go back in time with these adorable photos by Japanese photographer Kotori Kawashima. He followed his friend’s 4-year-old daughter from a rural Japanese village to Paris, while she was discovering the world. Kawashima released a whole book called “Mirai Chan” featuring the […]

Japanese Confectioners Ginza Cozy Corner Celebrattion of Easter with Adorable Mini Disney Desert Set

While celebrating Easter isn’t common in Japan, something about the spring iconography captures the imagination of Japanese confectioners every year, resulting in a whole lineup of bunny and egg inspired seasonal treats. This year we are especially spoiled for choice as Ginza Cozy Corner, a Japanese chain confectionery store, are releasing not just one but […]

A Japanese Schindler:Chiune Sugihara helped 6000 Jews escape during World War II

In 1939, Chiune Sugihara went to Lithuania to open the first Japanese consulate. His job consisted of and gathering information and keep an eye out for to the German allies. Meantime, in Poland, Nazi tanks had started marching, causing terror among Jewish refugees so they fled to Lithuania. After the Soviet invaded Lithuania in June […]

The people of Japan, defined in one photograph

There’s an old joke about a group of men from different nations deciding whether or not to abandon a sinking ship in the middle of arctic waters. The Englishman, upon being reminded that the women and children were now safe and that a proper gentlemen would obey the captain’s order, takes a deep breath and […]

Japan population drops at record pace in 2019

Japan’s population shrank at its fastest pace ever in 2019, with the number of people of working age dropping to a new low, government data showed Tuesday, reflecting the rapid aging of society and low birth rate. The population fell 276,000 to 126.17 million as of Oct. 1, declining for the ninth straight year and […]

Japanese Government Is Selling Houses for $500 to Populate The Rural Area

Did you know that there are more than 8 million empty homes in rural Japan that are being sold at very low costs? Here is an empty property located in Tochigi, a prefecture North of Tokyo. This house is a vacant one and is one of the 8 million houses that need occupants. Here are […]

16 Facts About Japan That Will Amaze Inexperienced Travelers.

Living in the United States is great. We have beautiful national parks, plenty of beaches, and we’re given a lot of freedoms that many other countries don’t have. Living in America has great advantages, but it’s as if every other country is alien to us. Take Japan, for example. It’s on the opposite side of […]