Masahisa Takaki 4 days ago 1 min About 3 million sightseers from all over Japan annually visit Hirosaki Sakura Matsuri. Hirosaki City in Aomori Prefecture, a beautiful castle town located at the northernmost tip of Honshu main island of Japan, is well known...
Masahisa Takaki May 6 1 min "Tokyo-daijingu" Shinto shrine is said to answer prayers for matchmaking. "Hibiya-daijingu" Shinto shrine, built near Yurakucho in the heart of Tokyo in 1880, is the origin of this shrine. As the capital of...
Masahisa Takaki May 1 1 min The mansion of the Tayasu family and the Shimizu family stood in present Kitano-maru Park in Tokyo. The Tokugawa family, who ruled Japan for some 250 years until the mid-19th century, established the so-called "the Gosanke" three branch...
Masahisa Takaki Apr 24 1 min The British Embassy in Tokyo is one of the oldest embassies in Japan. The Tokugawa feudal government enforced the national seclusion policy from the 17th century, with the exception of China, Korea and the...
Masahisa Takaki Apr 17 1 min "Gohyaku-rakan" means a set of five hundred sincere disciples who accompanied Buddha all the time. According to a classic Buddhist scripture of India, Shakyamuni, the so-called Buddha, was always accompanied by the five hundred...
Masahisa Takaki Apr 7 1 min "Mameda-machi", Hita City, Oita Prefecture, still retains what it used to be. Present Hita City in Oita Prefecture had prospered as a castle town till the 17th century, thereafter it became a "tenryo" , which means...
Masahisa Takaki Mar 30 1 min "Tanada", meaning a terraced paddy field, is commonly found in the mountainous region of Japan. While traveling around Japan by car or train, you would find an extensive paddy field here and there in the countryside. It would be...
Masahisa Takaki Mar 24 2 min "Kitazato Shibasaburo" is well known as a world-class bacteriologist. Kitazato Shibasaburo was born into a wealthy village headman family in present Oguni Town, Kumamoto Prefecture, in1853. During the...
Masahisa Takaki Mar 18 1 min "Jozan-kei" hot spring resort is known as a place of retreat for the citizens of Sapporo. Jozan-kei, boasting of a leading hot spring resort in Hokkaido, lies in a mountainous region about 30 kilometers to the southwest of the...
Masahisa Takaki Mar 11 1 min Sapporo Beer Garden features the so-called "Genghis Khan Cuisine", Mongolian mutton barbecue. Sapporo Breweries Co., Ltd. is Japan's oldest brewing company still in existence. The then Government established "Hokkaido Kaitakushi"...
