An iconic Japanese summer sight: kingyo-sukui In addition to stalls selling takoyaki, okonomiyaki, candy apples, and the like, traditional Japanese summer festival stalls will often…

Japanese traditional sweets and desserts are called ‘wagashi’. With distinctly Japanese ingredients and flavours such as matcha, adzuki beans and kinako, they are completely different…

Giant goldfish are coming to light up the Hoshino Resort, Aomoriya as a part of the Shigakko Goldfish Festival from June 1 to August 31,…

Japanese miniature artist Miyuki Kobayashi carefully handcrafts her miniature artwork, and does so with making 1/12 size reproductions that look “more real than the ring…

Japanese Twitter user and animal food art enthusiast, Nao (@england618) dazzled us before with dango formed into little shiba inu dog faces and butts. They…

Although there are plenty other fish out there, goldfish are considered as one of the main traditional beautiful assets to Japanese culture since the Edo-period….

Yamatokōriyama city is known as the “city of goldfish” in Japan, and now has another reason to make that claim with this phone booth used…

Tea infusers come in all shapes and sizes, a lot of them creative and adorable. But if dealing with loose-leaf tea isn’t really your thing,…

Goldfish have a special place in Japanese culture. They were first introduced by the Chinese during the sixteenth century, and were initially kept as treasured…

Meet Riusuke Fukahori – he was saved by goldfish. About 15 years ago, a young Fukahori was aspiring to be a designer, but he was…