Showing posts with the label Japan

The Japanese Fishing Boat Whose Lethal Encounter With An Atomic Bomb Inspired Godzilla

Jul 24, 2019

Tucked away in a corner of Yumenoshima Park in Tokyo, a ten-minute-walk away from Shin Kiba Station, is a tall A-frame building. Sitting in...

How Japanese Bamboo Helped Edison Make The Light Bulb

May 17, 2019

Thomas Alva Edison's invention, or shall we say “perfection”, of the light bulb helped brighten up homes of people all across the world,...

Human Decomposition in Japanese Artwork

Apr 29, 2019

In traditional Buddhist teachings, contemplating about death is an integral part of meditation. Buddha himself said that death is “the gre...

Mimizuka: The Burial Site of Thousands of Noses

Mar 28, 2019

In the middle of a quiet residential neighborhood in the suburb of Kyoto, Japan, is a 30-foot-high, grass-covered hillock within which are b...

Yasukuni Shrine, Where War Criminals Are Revered

Feb 15, 2019

The Imperial Shrine of Yasukuni, in Chiyoda, Tokyo, is a beautiful spiritual place for remembering those who died in service for Japan. As m...

Shin's Tricycle

Feb 13, 2019

Behind a glass case at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum is a battered and rusted tricycle. The seat is missing, and so are the pedals an...

Juhyo, The Snow Monsters of Mount Zao

Feb 1, 2019

High against the slopes of Mount Zaō, in central Japan, the cold, moisture-laden winds from Siberia slams into creating a natural wonder tha...

Chindōgu: The Japanese Art of Unuseless Inventions

Oct 18, 2018

You have definitely seen a chindōgu. They are those ridiculous Japanese inventions designed to solve a particular problem but are, in fact, ...

The Mountain That Japan Hid From The World

Oct 5, 2018

Photo credit: 663highland/Wikimedia Inside the Shikotsu-Toya National Park, in the island of Hokkaidō, not far from the active stratovolca...

The Glass Fishing Floats of Japan And Norway

Sep 10, 2018

Every year, Oregon’s Lincoln City, on the west coast of the United States, organizes a treasure hunt where more than 3,000 handcrafted glass...