Facts About Japan

Mikimoto's high end jewellery collection  Not rated yet
Mikimoto, the legendary pearling pioneer and renowned jeweller, proudly introduces their high end jewellery collection. These pieces showcase Mikimoto’...

Mikimoto's Cancer Awareness Jewelry  Not rated yet
Mikimoto akoya pearl earrings from the "Everything is Possible with Hope" collection retail for $3,000, and 50 percent of proceeds benefit the Young Survival ...

WW2 Foes United in Friendship  Not rated yet
World War II ended 64 years ago, but for former combatants Ken Buckingham Sr. of Monroe and Isao Kinoshita of Japan, there was still one mystery unsolved ...

Japan's Bullet Train Eye's Foreign Market  Not rated yet
It is the archetypal image of how modern Japan has fused technical excellence with respect for tradition: a Shinkansen - or bullet - train speeds at 300kph ...

Japan's Bullet Train  Not rated yet
Last night I ate Kobe beef for dinner. In Kobe. I could do this – eat the most gratuitously flash meal of my life, that is – because Kobe was just 13 minutes ...

Mount Fuji & Bathouses What Do They Have in Common?  Not rated yet
One of the pleasures of going to a sento public bath has traditionally been soaking in the big bathtub and gazing at Mount Fuji painted on the wall across ...

Japan offers $336 mil to pay for U.S. Marines' transfer to Guam   Not rated yet
Japan agreed Saturday with the United States to offer $336 million in total for the current fiscal year to realize the planned transfer of U.S. Marines ...

Giant Gundam robot stalks Japan   Not rated yet
Nothing better sums up the relationship between the Japanese and robotics than a giant model robot model - 18 metres high and weighing 35 tonnes - that ...