Japan

Population: 127.9 million (UN, 2005)
Capital: Tokyo
Area: 377,864 sq km (145,894 sq miles)
Major language: Japanese
Major religions: Shintoism, Buddhism
Life expectancy: 78 years (men), 85 years (women) (UN)
Monetary unit: yen
The Japan Times – English-language

God bless the Japanese. With cartoon porn, capsule hotels and electronic pets, they continue to raise the question: what is it to be human?

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Japan Travel Guide Online

Japan still bears the legacy of its historical isolation form the rest of the world. Between 1633 and 1868 strict regulations were put into place that denied travel to the ...

Japan Photo Guide - Dragons

Japan Photo Guide - Street scenes and icky food

Ken Tanaka, American Youtube Comedian in Japan

Ken Tanaka is rising to fame on Youtube with his videos about Japanese life and culture. With deadpan irony he speaks English with the accent and idiosyncrasies of a Japanese ...

Memoirs of a Gaijin - Teaching in Japan

There are some places in this world where one can go and feel completely at home. Where the locals’ arms are open and hearts are warm, welcoming new visitors as ...

The Panamanian Ambassador Complains and I Get Sacked from the Tokyo Notice Board

Some years ago after a stint of selling fake Rolex watches in Tokyo, I got a job wring a column for a little free listings magazine called the

Japanese Culture - Love Hotels

The Japanese are almost a species apart. A reserved, formal culture laden with hierarchy and rigid social expectations, when it comes to dating and sex they are in a world ...

Lost in Translation, Tokyo

I recently re-watched “Lost in Translation” (2003) on DVD thus marking the year anniversary of its release in Japan
. Watching the movie again, it reminded me of ...

Kyoto Zen - Japan Travel Story

Time flies like and arrow, so do not waste energy on trivial matters. Be attentive. Be attentive! — Zen Master Daito, 1337

I am from Canada but I now live ...

Ronin & Samurai in Japan

Every country has at least one story that strikes a deep chord within the heart and soul of a culture resonating through out the entire being of its society. It’s ...

Japan Kinky Sex Culture

It has been noted before that the Japanese culture is unique in many ways, often not short of bizarre. When it comes to sex though they blow the rest of ...

Dating Japanese Girls & Guys

Japanese Lifestyle

Japanese society is quite openly erotic in some ways with massage parlours broadly advertising their soapy service. Yet on a personal level the Japanese are painfully shy and ...