If you are looking for some adrenaline-pumping fun, then you need to head to Fuji-Q Highland in Fujiyoshida, Japan. Fuji-Q sits at the base of Fuji-San (Mount Fuji), which makes an amazing backdrop for a theme park like no other. But what makes Fuji-Q such a thrill-seeking paradise? Well, we traveled to Fuji-Q to find…

Fans of Hayao Miyazaki’s “Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind” are getting a treat in December. The Oscar-winning anime has been adapted into a Kabuki work that is currently being performed at the Shinbashi Enbujo Theatre in Higashiginza in Tokyo, Japan. The play includes Kabuki superstars Onoe Kikunosuke and Nakamura Shichinosuke. Kikunosuke plays Nausicaa,…

The University of Tokyo, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), and three companies in Fukui prefecture including toy makers from Tokyo, teamed-up to build a miniature satellite named the G-Satellite. The G-Satellite will be placed into orbit during the entire Tokyo 2020 Olympics. But the coolest part is that it will carry two very important…

It looks like at least one man in Osaka isn’t going to be celebrating at KFC Japan this holiday season. A 51-year old salary man in Osaka, Japan was using the train to get to from his house to his work, which seems like a pretty normal thing. The only problem was that he just…

For those that don’t know, Japan has a pretty big obsession with the Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant chain. In fact, many Japanese actually celebrate Christmas in Japan. This tradition began in December 1974, when KFC Japan began to promote fried chicken as a Christmas meal, and the rest is Kentucky Fried history. But starting on…

The 2020 Tokyo Olympics Committee unveiled the design of the medals that will be awarded to the winners next year. And the design is beautiful. Here is a more cinematic view of the medals: But as with most things from Japan, there is an added level of utility to each of these medals, as they…