Japanese Culture

The Japanese are getting prettier and prettier, more and more focused upon prettiness ( this man is 31 ),and eating together (Japanese TV al...

Professors Kuroishi and Sano are the doyens of normality research (Kuroishi & Sano, 2009; Sano & Kuroishi, 2009; Kuroishi and Sano,...

    toonme.com   I look nothing like this of course. The selfie photograph was processed with some smoothing algorithm, even before the cart...

There are have been large waves created by earthquakes for as long as there have been seas and earthquakes but the first time that the word...

I am not sure I have got these all right.　Most of them are from this article in Japanese , but I hope and believe that they are in the publi...

  This is our (Nishioka & Takemoto, 2021) survey that attempts to prove that while Western Heroes go from a "mild mannered" se...

  Today is International Women's day but I think it should be men's day in Japan due to the gender reversal pertaining in Japanese c...

 Fusion! The white vanilla "Snow-Watching Very Happy" (Yukimi Daifuku) rice cake ice creams have been around since my wife was a c...

For about thirty years of living in Japan I thought that the Japanese were dirty because they did not have nail brushes (pictured above), be...

A poster in a convenience store promoting the store-brewed coffee over the wide variety of canned an bottled prepared coffee in the refriger...

  The Japanese are said to be hygienic because they care about how they look to others but many Japanese hygiene and prettifying behaviors s...

Japan is called groupist or collectivist partly because one name given to the the country is "wa," which is used in various expre...

Thanks to Professor Angela Duckworth's work on Grit and Professor Carol Dweck's work on mindset, malleability and grit are now con...

Here are some of things that may have helped the Japanese to have suffered fewer deaths in the coronavirus pandemic so far include perhaps (...

There is a tendency for Japanese hospitality providers to provide the type and frequency of hospitality that they consider appropriate to t...

It is rare to see a Japanese woman in anything but tip-top preened perfection in the (non adult) media anyway. But Ms. Miyuki Emond appears...

Shazaikaiken are press conferences held for the purpose of making a public apology and they can look pretty strange to Westerners such as ...

Professor Yotaro Takano is in my opinion an extremely intelligent, intuitive, independent researcher at the University of Tokyo. He has th...

You practice the forms. Eventually they come naturally. Miyanaga claims that there is an intermediate or parallel ability to visualise the...

Japanese children are encouraged to hang "sunshine monk" dolls from the eaves for their houses before sports events or other day...