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Japanese Culture and Traditions
Japanese Culture and Traditions: Mochi (Rice Cakes) Is Dangerous Killer Food
Have you ever eaten mochi? If yes and you’re still alive, you’re blessed. Do you know how many people have lost their lives by choking on mochi in Japan? It’s 300 averagely every year. We probably should prohibit or at least impose a heavy tax on mochi like narcotics and alcohol, but there has been no such momentum so far. -
Japanese Culture and Traditions
Why Nature Loves Hexagons: Snowflakes, Hexagonal Flowers Blooming in Hokkaido
Why do bees and hornets build hexagons? If we try to fill a plane surface with a single kind of polygons, there are three options: equilateral triangles, squares, and regular hexagons. Bees and hornets go with regular hexagons because regular hexagons are best in space-efficiency and second best in strength. This is the core point of the theory. What do you think? -
Japanese Culture and Traditions
Japanese Culture and Traditions: Factory Tours for School Educational Trips
【Our general impression on the sea of trees in the foot of Mt. Fuji】 Even if you have not been to Japan before, I believe many of you have heard the name of the highest and most beautiful mountain in Japan. Yes, it’s Mt. Fuji, or Fujiy... -
Japan Travel in the Know
Japan Travel in the Know: Japan is the Kingdom of Planetarium
Do you know how big the world’s largest planetarium is? It’s 35 m in diameter, and is located in Nagoya, Japan. Why don’t you come and try one in the Mecca of planetarium? You may think there’s no point of going to the planetarium when you come all the way to Japan, but planetarium shows are designed based on stars seen in the local sky. It’s also something you can only experience here. -
Marketing Tips
The Effective Use of Waste: We Donate Our Waste Leather
Rosso Corsa. These Italian words mean the signature red color of Ferrari. When I was into Ferrari, I heard some myths about color mixing to realize Rosso Corsa. Some said the color of the primer (base coat) must be yellow to realize the ... -
Japan Travel in the Know
Japan Travel in the Know: Snow and Ice Igloo Hotels in Hokkaido
Have you ever seen a Japanese elementary school bag? It’s nationally-standardized in Japan. I'll tell you how Hokkaido kids use the bags to make an ice igloo. -
Japan Travel in the Know
Japan Travel in the Know: A Hokkaido Restaurant (Curry Rice)
Do you think you can tell good rice from not-so-good one? If you think “Rice is just a foil to the main dish. There is not much of a difference,” that’s completely wrong. Today, I’m going to introduce a restaurant famous for good rice in Hokkaido. -
Marketing Tips
Business Tips: What Is the Value of NFT?
“A diamond is forever.” I’m sure many of you have heard this before. It’s a tagline made by Mary Frances Gerety for De Beers in 1949. Grammar sticklers with poor taste like me may feel something wrong with the sentence, but it has attrac... -
Japan Travel in the Know
Japan Travel in the Know: Hokkaido Is the Kingdom of Bread
【Many good bakeries in Hokkaido】 “How old are you?” “How old do I look?” Humans have made progress and finally landed on the Moon in 1969, but we still continue to return a stupid question to a stupid question as above. When are we mat... -
Marketing Tips
How to Deal with Methane Emissions from Cows in Dairy Farms in Hokkaido
Japan Customs and Coast Guard are different and separate organizations, but they very often work together especially at a sea port. For that reason, when working as a Customs official, I sometimes went for a drink with Coast Guard offici...