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Each year on the second Monday of October, the Japanese celebrate Health & Sports day, Taiiku no hi in Japanese, with a national holiday. Established in 1966, this holiday celebrates the anniversary of the 1964 Tokyo Olympic opening ceremony and encourages residents to enjoy sports and cultivate a healthy mind and body.
Schools and communities […]
Mitsuo Aida (1924-1991) was a traditional Japanese brush-and-ink calligrapher and poet who became well know for the simple and insightful way that he wrote about the challenges, pitfalls and joys that are part of daily life. His artful presentation of his writings utilizing the calligraphy skills that he learned as a young man are on […]
The Tokyo Metropolitan Photography Museum specializes in still and moving images and is the first of its kind in Japan with a focus on collecting, displaying and restoring images of cultural importance to Japan and around the word. The main gallery is used to exhibit works from the museum’s own collection as well as an […]
The Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is located in Tokyo Dome City and is a great place to visit for baseball fans and historians alike. The museum documents the history of the game in Japan from the late 1800’s, when Horace Wilson, an American Teacher at Ichiban Chugaku (now Tokyo University) first introduced […]
Are you fascinated with how people live? Do you want to get a better understanding of how the village of Edo started out and grew to become the sprawling, multi-faceted metropolis that is Tokyo today? Then you should visit the Fukugawa Edo Museum. The Fukagawa Edo Museum presents a fascinating reproduction of downtown […]
You don’t need to go to Beijing to get in the Olympics spirit. Japan recently gave it’s athletes a royal send off to Beijing and the country is feverishly promoting its bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics to be held in Tokyo. The city hosted the Olympic Games in 1964 and is home […]
Visitors to Tokyo tend to do a lot of walking while touring the city. The routine goes something like this, walk to the nearest Tokyo Metro Station, navigate your way to your destination, possibly transiting one or more stations on foot in the process, walk to and around your desired destination and finally,when you have […]
The origins of Yebisu Beer date back to 1887, when Nippon Beer Brewery started producing beer in the area then called Mita Village. The name “Yebisu” was adopted later and is a variation of the name of Ebisu, the surrounding town and the station closest to the Beer Museum. Nippon Breweries, Ltd. […]
Do you love money? At the Banknote and Postage Stamp Museum in Shinjuku you can see a lot of money, and it’s old money!
The National Printing Bureau was founded in 1871 as the Paper Money Office (Shiheishi) under the Ministry of Finance and they have engaged in the manufacture of banknotes and postage stamps […]
Artists are often compared to one another and more often inspire and compete with one another to create great works. Throughout the history of Japanese art, each generation of painters, Buddhist sculptors, potters and other artists studied the works of the masters, their contemporaries and their predecessors. The visual arts of each generation flourished and […]
Whether you live in Tokyo, or are just planning a trip, you will find out what to do and see right here!
Written by Shane Sakata [email] for b5media.
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