The Aozora Bank was originally established in 1957 under a different name, that of The Nippon Fudosan Bank and underwent a few changes up to the present. In 2001, the bank finally changed its name to Aozora Bank, Ltd. and converted from a “Long-Term Credit Bank” to an “Ordinary Bank” in 2006. The head of the International…
A Japanese Olympics super fan, Naotoshi Yamada that has attended all games since 1964, died on 9th of March due to a heart failure. A national celebrity that has appeared to every summer game, known by everybody as the “オリンピックおじさん”(Olympic Ojisan/ Uncle Olympics), died at 92 years old this year, in March. It was announced…
The Japanese Idol, Maki Goto, former member of the famous Idol Group Morning Musume is now receiving lots of attention in Japan as she was involved in an extramarital affair despite being married for 5 years now. After her affair has become the spotlight of the news, she wrote an apology on her blog, saying…
I believe that everyone must be familiar with Doraemon(ドラえもん) series, be it manga , anime or both. The manga, published way back in 1969 is one of the best-selling manga series worldwide and has won many awards including the Osamu Tezuka Culture Award and has been adapted to anime series and multimedia franchise. So popular…
Starbucks has branches in many parts of the world, however the shops in Japan are very popular among the visitors and the reason lays in the harmony created by the Japanese culture and its elements incorporated into the shop’s creations, architecture, merchandise, limited edition-goods (such as sakura/cherry blossom milk latte,for example) and so on. Starbucks…
As the Tokyo 2020 Games steadily approaches, Japan expects a great number of foreigners to come starting from this year. However, together with foreigners also comes the Japanese citizens’ dissatisfaction created by the big number of tourists that is increasing by year. In a Japanese TV Show called ZawaTsuku(ザワつく), the Japanese brought into attention some…
In order to promote the upcoming movie Bumblebee that centers around one of the Transformers’characters ,Bumblebee, another robot life-size statue showed up outside of Diver City Mall, in Odaiba along the famous 24 m Unicorn Gundam. The movie Bumblebee had its release date last year on 3rd of December in Berlin and December, 21st in…
The Japanese Band One Ok Rock officially announced that they’ll be joining Ed Sheeran in his Divide Tour in April, 2019 as the opening act, the members declaring they are excited to take part in this tour along the English Singer. His album, (÷) / “Divide” had its release date in 2017 and was such…
It is almost spring in Japan and stores are already getting ready to welcome it by bringing some colour and warmth into the grey,cold and monotonous landscape of February. Sakura (cherry blossom) themed goods and treats, spring limited editions are already making their appearance in stores, the soft pink colour of the cherry blossoms gaining…
Ariana Grande’s New tattoo is a hot topic recently and Japanese people are also gossiping about it. Her two Japanese characters 七輪 (ShichiRin) on the palm of her hand had appeared on her Instagram, however instead of spelling out the word “7 rings”, it became “Small BBQ Grill” due to an ink error. by cinnamonellie…
