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Japantown, San Francisco rocks the cherry blossoms in April

April means spring, spring means blossoms, and cherry blossoms means the 45th annual Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival is coming soon....

PART I:Liza Dalby, a Berkeley writer, is known as the first and only geisha of the western world. Sensational as that sounds, when you meet Liza,...

I awakened this morning to find a thoughtful article from the New York Times Opinion Pages among my email. As someone who grew up in Japan, I'm...

April 8, 2012 marks the flower festival in Japan, known as hanamatsuri. This celebration coincides with the blooming of sakura or cherry blossom...

For six minutes on March 11, 2011, a massive earthquake shook Japan. The earthquake began off the northeast coast of Japan. The most destructive...

Japanese Christmas Cake is most often recognized as a white or vanilla sponge cake with shipped cream icing. Strawberries are a popular addition,...

Traditionally, the Japanese did not celebrate Christmas. Shinto, the indigenous religious system of Japan, presents a number of challenges for...

From the time of the attack on December 7, 1941 until recent years, many misconceptions and myths have clouded the general population’s view...

It is uncertain how these little wooden dolls came to be, but the kokeshi dolls of Japan have a warm association to the Japanese spirit...

September 19, 2011 is the third Monday in September and marks this year’s Respect for the Aged Day in Japan. The holiday was established in...