Fukai Nihon 深い日本 - Shades from Japan
Yami Kawaii: the Controversial Side of Harajuku
Few, very few, are the people in this world who, in front of a sparkling, dazzling, inviting reality, stop and look at it carefully; very few people wonder what it hides behind it, the dark side. In Harajuku, the fashionable and colorful district of Tokyo, the darkness of existence is called "Yami Kawaii" and it is a purely fashionable subculture, which combines pastel-colored dresses with psyche disorders, or rather a visual representation of them.
Otoshidama お年玉 the Gift that Children and Adults are Waiting for
Otoshidama お 年 玉 is an gift, we can said is one of the Japanese traditions, where relatives, parents or close friends give money to children (but also to adults) with the first days of the year.
A particular custom, we could see it often in films, but especially in anime and manga. Very interesting and certainly features that children, but as mentioned at the beginning, not only them, are also waiting to be able to spend them immediately.
The Suicide Forest : Aokigahara 青木ヶ原
Aokigahara 青木 ヶ 原, or Jukai 樹 海 sea of trees, is a forest known by its unfortunately nefarious name of "Suicide Forest", mystical and mysterious presence and so much pain.
Aokigahara is a large green area with very tall trees that stretches for 35km² located at the northwestern base of Mount Fuji. The area, originated from Mount Nagaoyama eruption in 864, is characterized by caves left by lava flows that have allowed the formation of dense vegetation, making the area rather "dense" and silent as well as having magnetic disruption due to its geological nature.
The Rise of Book-Off an Institution in Japan
Japan is known for being a country that has "care" of consumer goods, intrinsic in society with reflections in some spiritual and religious concepts related to everyday objects, which other countries around the world are starting to apply.
An example of these "cures" is the recycling and thinking about it not only as a "good deed for the environment", but as a real "business strategy". Although this system exists in other countries like mine, it is not applied in such a "systematic" way.