Japanese sweet culture One of the most distinctive parts of Japanese culture is the art of Japanese Wagashi sweet making. The sweets are often eaten together with Japanese macha green tea. The range of styles and tastes is incredible and many of the sweet-makers belong to families with long traditions of sweet-making, with recipes and techniques past down from generation to generation. Mitsumoc...
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Japanese sweet culture One of the most distinctive parts of Japanese culture is the art of Japanese Wagashi sweet making. The sweets are often eaten together with Japanese macha green tea. The range of styles and tastes is incredible and many of the sweet-makers belong to families with long traditions of sweet-making, with recipes and techniques past down from generation to generation. Mitsumoc...
Regional festivals and dances in Japan There are many dances and festivals all over Japan, especially during the summer season. Each local area has famous dances, for example, there is the famous Awa Odori in Tokushima prefecture in Shikoku among many others. Kitano sensei, one of the professional Japanese teachers at JOI, lives in Sweden, but she was raised in Hokkaido in Japan. In her hometown...
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Okinawan cuisine and culture There are differences between the cultures and food eaten around different parts of Japan. Okinawa, the southernmost island chain of Japan, has a distinct tropical climate and as result different cuisine. One of these is the Hechima sponge cucumber, and Inamoto sensei, who has experience in traveling to various countries, and a lot of experience in teaching Japanese...
How to improve your lifestyle Human biorhythms can be adapted to suit your lifestyle. And following the natural flow of the day and sunlight is a great way to improve mental and sometimes physical health too. This means, going to bed early and getting up early too. The Japanese latest fad of “Asa Katsu” is based on this idea. And goes one further; try to make the most of those first few hours of...
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Japanese Campus festivals Japanese schools and universities have many cultural and intramural events during the school calendar. And in Autumn the campus festival season starts. Japanese Manga and Anime often feature these events in their story lines, and there are similar events in different countries too, but there is also a uniqueness to some of these festivals that make them “very Japanese”. ...
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