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Nengajo Japanese New Year Card

Nengajo: The Japanese New Year’s Card Tradition and How to Send Your Own

All about Japan's New Year cards and how to write your very own

By Kirsty Kawano

oshogatsu new year

Celebrating Oshogatsu: An Introduction to Japanese New Year Traditions

Weekly Japanese Idiom: “Karotousen” — Useless Things

On This Day in Japan: Women in Japan Were Granted the Right to Vote

By Matthew Hernon

Japan Back Then: The Stories That Gripped the Nation in the 1980s

By Matthew Hernon

Kamakura Hanko

Kamakura Hanko is Preserving a Japanese Legacy

By Jordan Green

'Sanmitsu,' 'Ai no Fujichaku,' 'Kimetsu no Yaiba': What Were Japan's Top Buzzwords for 2020?

By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz

Weekly Japanese Idiom: “Happoubijin” — A Friend to All is a Friend to None

The Fight to Save Japan's Remote Villages through 44 Resilience Values

By Eric Margolis