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Entertainment, International Celebrities, Movie Premieres

Eddie Redmayne and Tom Hooper Appear at Japan Premiere for “The Danish Girl”

Eddie Redmayne and Tom Hooper Appear at Japan Premiere for “The Danish Girl”

Actor Eddie Redmayne and director Tom Hooper wow Japanese fans at a premiere for “The Danish Girl” in Tokyo. (All photos by Rodrigo Reyes Marin/Nippon News)   Eddie dapper in […]

Features, Traditional Japan

Oni Matsuri

Oni Matsuri

Boys are dressed in traditional Shinto clothing during Oni Matsuri, a demon festival at Akumi Kanbe Shinmeisha Shrine in Toyohashi, Japan. The festival celebrates the coming of Spring, and people […]

Bizarre, Fushigi

Zebra Zoo escape drill

Zebra Zoo escape drill

An escaped zebra at Ueno Zoo during an annual Escaped Animal Drill on February 2, 2016, Tokyo, Japan. Every year zookeepers at one of Tokyo’s zoos organise an escape drill […]

Features, Traditional Japan

Japanese New Year’s Ice Bath at Kanda Myojin Shrine

Japanese New Year’s Ice Bath at Kanda Myojin Shrine

Participants dressed only in loincloths and flimsy underwear pray before pouring buckets of freezing cold water over themselves during a traditional New Year ice bath ceremony. The ceremony took place […]

Features, Traditional Japan

Shorinzan Daruma Market

Shorinzan Daruma Market

We visited the annual Daruma Market at the Shorinzan Temple in Takasaki on January 6th. (All photos by Rodrigo Reyes Marin/AFLO) Merchants sell Daruma dolls outside the Shorinzan Daruma Temple […]