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As a matter of fact, an intricate and completely self-sufficient doll culture has been thriving in Japan for at least 300 years

The time-machine presents costumes of the epoch in great detail but it's immediately obvious that the exhibition is about so much more than just costumes.

The problems, associated with the prescriptive nature of the major religious books, help to shift attention to a different kind of literature known as “literary monuments”

One might say that Japanese people don't bite their food, they nibble it!

a vast majority of “Japanese gardens” are scattered all over the world outside of Japan, and all their ingredients - be it ponds, fish, flowers or simple plants - are completely domestic.

Japanese trees deserve much better than that, and this whole article could be worth several thousand words - as translated into a few pictures.

It's to Japan that millions of tourists from all over the globe flock every spring to seek and admire the pink of cherries and the white of plums and apples

Japanese language is so different that even the strongest adjectives (like “unique”) don't even begin to do justice to it.

As for Japan, trains never ceased to be a wonder - in many more than just a technological sense.