Culture

We all know the japanese cherry trees (sakura), but we sometimes tend to forget their importance in japanese culture!
These trees, which are blooming no longer than 3 weeks per year, [...]

Mount Fuji (Fuji San, 富士山) is without doubt one of the symbols of Japan. 3776 meter high, this extinct volcano located at the border between Yamanashi and Shizuoka prefectures [...]

Bonsai (in Japanese: 盆栽): miniature tree grown in pot. This is real japanese art, and we need to admit that it is sometimes hard to understand its essence. [...]

Tea is a very popular drink in Japan. There actually exist so many kinds of tea that it is as tough to know them all as to know all [...]

As in many other cultures, the year in Japan is cadenced by festivals, called matsuri (祭). O-mikoshi is a kind of festival, usually taking place at the end of [...]