I found information about 56 of my ancestors from official , “koseki-touhon”, which I got from some city offices. Japan has “koseki hou”, family registry laws, and it enacts the making of these documents. 続きを読む →

I went to the Japanese Consulate in Toronto in order to vote for the House of Councilor Selection. When I say this to my Japanese friends, they always say “I’m so impressed” and it makes me very sad, since it is commonsense to me and it should be commonsense to everyone. 続きを読む →

I had such a weird feeling when I learned that one of Japan’s celebrities was arrested due to having cannabis and the media did a live broadcast of it using a helicopter in Tokyo, Japan, because in the country where I am living, Canada, it is legal to take marijuana from 2018. 続きを読む →

Recently, I have truly enjoyed learning English since I realized again that languages are strongly connected with cultures. In the last English lesson, my English teacher, whose educational background is linguistics and Japanese language, and I talked about the relationship between language and culture. 続きを読む →

Who do Japanese people dance bon odori, traditional Japanese dance, without smiling? Don’t you think they don’t look like they are having fun at all? My Japanese friend, who is a night club lover, said this to me when we were at a Japanese festival in Toronto. 続きを読む →

Japan has a tradition to have new year’s events in temples from the night of Dec 31^st to the late night of Jan 1^st . People come to a temple nearby their places and ring a bell 108 times for reducing worldly desires. 続きを読む →

I totally gave up eating Japanese special new year’s foods in Toronto. Therefore, I was surprised when I found this information: There is a Mochituki event in Toronto. 続きを読む →