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Nengajo Japanese New Year Card

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

By Kirsty Kawano
oshogatsu new year

Celebrating Oshogatsu: An Introduction to Japanese New Year Traditions

By Celia Knox

Weekly Japanese Idiom: “Karotousen” — Useless Things

By Lisa Wallin

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

By Lisa Wallin