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Setsubun: magic beans in Japan

DEJAPAN Staff / February 5, 2018

Feb 3rd is Setsubun in Japan. As far as tradition goes, Setsubun’s the first day of spring. Except it’s still cold. […]

DEJAPAN Staff / February 1, 2018

Japan Expo Thailand is – combined with Japan Festa Bangkok – Asia’s biggest celebration of all things Japanese. Half a million

DEJAPAN Staff / January 22, 2018

Are you ready to get funky? Fans of J-fashion brands like Listen Flavor, Candy Stripper, 390 Mart and Spinns are

DEJAPAN Staff / January 11, 2018

A new year’s when your luck for the next 12 months is decided. Many people visit a temple or shrine

It’s Coming of Age Day (January 8th), Japan’s yearly celebration of young people reaching adulthood. To mark the day, we’re gonna

The start of a new year’s always busy. Loads of Japanese people head to their local shrine or temple, to

DEJAPAN Staff / December 28, 2017

Every day, we learn new names for things in Japanese. Some of them are… well, we don’t think anyone asked

DEJAPAN Staff / December 25, 2017

Merry Christmas! Or whatever you celebrate. (Or happy holidays, if you’re not religious. It’s all cool with us.) Christmas in

DEJAPAN Staff / December 11, 2017

Being a cat seems super easy, from the way some house cats act all day. Lie in a sunbeam, meow,

DEJAPAN Staff / December 7, 2017

The winter months in Japan aren’t as cold as in some other countries. Well, it depends which bit of Japan

DEJAPAN Staff / November 30, 2017

Japan’s got this image of being… kinda… stressed out. All the time. You’ve heard stories of salarymen working 14-hour days,

DEJAPAN Staff / November 13, 2017

Hey, if you don’t remember us talking about this gum when it launched, that’s okay! Lotte’s ‘gum that preserves your