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The fundamental components of Japanese meals are rice, soup, and side dishes, with the soup providing both water and salt.

Tsukemono is a kind of food, mostly vegetables, that has been pickled in salt, rice bran, miso, or something else.

Sweet foods, such as Japanese and Western confectionaries, are known as kanmi (sweets).

Chirashi-zushi is a type of sushi made by combining various ingredients with vinegared rice.

Umeboshi are a type of pickle made from ume (plums) fruits that are dried in the sun after being salted and soaked in ume vinegar.

Rice has been an important part of the lives of Japanese people since ancient times.

Copying Buddhist sutras is called shakyo and in Japan it typically refers to copying the Hannya Shingyo (The Great Heart of Wisdom Sutra).

Furoshiki are square cloths for storing, wrapping, and carrying items. They are also used to cover things that are important to protect from dust.

An ingredient that is always used in making dishes like clear soup, broths for soba and udon, and in cooking vegetables and fish is dashi.

Origami is a traditional form of Japanese entertainment in which you make various shapes such as cranes, boats, and helmets by folding colored paper.

For shops, kanban (signboards) are an important landmark. Other objects that serve the same purpose that Japanese people are familiar with are noren (shop curtains with emblems), nobori (flags), and chochin (lanterns).

Lacquerware that uses Japanese lacquer is known as shitsugei (lacquer art).

In contrast to the type of paper that originated in the West, there is also a type of paper made through a traditional Japanese manufacturing method called washi(Japanese paper).

Kanazawa in Ishikawa Prefecture is one of the big cities that represents the Hokuriku region.

Tomioka Silk Mill in Gunma Prefecture was Japan's first large-scale machine-made silk factory that w

Iwami Ginzan is a group of ruins in Shimane Prefecture where silver used to be mined in the 16th to

Gion, located in Kyoto's Higashiyama, serves as Kyoto's bustling downtown area.

Yakushima is an island that floats in the sea off the southernmost tip of the mainland of Kyushu, ar

Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture developed as one of Japan's port towns after the ports were opened i

There was a kingdom known as Ryukyu that existed on the Nansei Islands, part of present day Okinawa