Martin St-Pierre
Most people in Japan will admit that Wakayama is not really on the radar screen when it comes to nihonshu, better known as sake in English. In fact, people from Wakayama will often say that nihonshu from Wakayama tends to be rather futsu, or average. (more)
August 2005
Julian Richards
In the future, when the world is run by thinking machines, May 11th may well be a public holiday. It was on that day in 1997 that IBM computer Deep Blue beat chess champion Garry Kasparov and machines overtook humans as the preeminent chess playing entities on the planet. (more)
WIN Staff--Translated by Julian Richards
The hardest thing about speaking Japanese is the use of keigo (honorific Japanese). You have to choose your words based on an instantaneous judgment of both your position and that of the person you are talking to. (more)
WIN Staff--Translated by Julian Richards
If a Buddhist statue exceeds the height of“joroku" (4.85 meters),
which is said to be the height of the Buddha, it is called
a“Daibutsu” (literally, Big Buddha). (more)
Colin Mateme
When I arrived in Japan seven months ago I did not know what to expect. I read as much as I could about the country and the people before I left South Africa so that I would be somewhat mentally prepared for what I was about to experience. (more)
Editor’s Note: The following is an abridged letter from MBA students at the Postgraduate Institute of Management in Sri Lanka. (more)
Tsutomu Matsushita
Obon
August 13, 14 and 15 are called Obon, the festival for the dead. In Buddhism, the spirits of the dead are believed to come home to their families during Obon. (more)
Bunraku: Japanese Puppet Theater
September 3 6:00 p.m. ～ Info:073 - 822 - 2041
In commemoration of the merging of Kawanabe-town, Nakatsu-village, and Miyama-village into Hidakagawa-city, this bunraku public performance will be performed at Dojoji. (more)
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