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Sanja Matsuri (Sanja Festival) brings back excitement for 1st time in 4 years

Sanja Matsuri (Sanja Festival) brings back excitement for 1st time in 4 years

General view, Asakusa Sanja Matsuri is an annual festival which takes place every year on the third weekend of May in the Asakusa district of Tokyo, Japan. This years Sanja […]

Features, Japan Daily Life, Pictures of the Week

Looking back on 2023 Golden Week in Japan

Looking back on 2023 Golden Week in Japan

A foreign tourist takes picture at Nakamise shopping street, an approach to the Sensoji temple in Asakusa entertainment district, Tokyo in Japan on May 1, 2023. (Yohei Osada/AFLO)   Golden […]

Features, Traditional Japan

Kamakura Festival 2023

Kamakura Festival 2023

Yabusame (Japanese horseback archery) archer aims on target. 65th Kamakura Festival on April 16, 2023 in Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine in Kamakura, Japan. (Photo by Stanislav Kogiku/AFLO)   Shinto priest leaves […]

Features, Seasons

Shibazakura (moss phlox) in full bloom in Chichibu, Saitama

Shibazakura (moss phlox) in full bloom in Chichibu, Saitama

April 23, 2023, Chichibu, Japan – People enjoy to see fully bloomed moss phlox flowers at the Hitsujiyama park in Chichibu, western Tokyo on Sunday, April 23, 2023. Some 40,000 […]

Features, News, Society

Haruki Murakami’s new novel hits the shelves in Japan, first in 6 years

Haruki Murakami’s new novel hits the shelves in Japan, first in 6 years

General view, April 14, 2023 – Haruki Murakami’s new novel, “The City and Its Uncertain Walls” (“Machi to Sono Futashikana Kabe”) hits the shelves in Japan on April 13, 2023. […]