Although the eel business is not profitable, a lot of big Japanese restaurant chains specializing in ' kaiten-Sushi' and 'gyudon' are trying their hand at it. This season they serve 'unadon' at a lower price than that of eel restaurants. W…

The price of unadon has been rising year by year, because the number of child eels has been decreasing. It is not difficult to harvest eels from child eels, but we don't know where eels are born. It is assumed that they are born in the Mar…

The eel day promotion by restaurant chains has already started. We have a custom of eating eels late in July. We call the day 'Doyo no Ushi no Hi'. Doyo does not mean Saturday and Ushi does not mean beef. By the ole lunar calendar, the ' D…

It is forecast that real estate prices in Tokyo will go up till the Tokyo Olympic games in 2020. Some people say that a bubble will come again, but we should not have same failure as one of the late 80's. Have you ever heard the Japanese w…

The AKB election season has started. The number of its CD sales with voting tickets reached 1,45 million on just the first day. The quality of its music and dance performance is not so good. However some conservative companies are jealous …

In Japanese politics, the right of collective defense has been a controversial issue since the surrender of Japan of World War Ⅱ. So far it has understood that we needs to amend the article 9 of the Japanese constitution in order to get th…

In the Olmypic games bid, Abe stongly declared that the situation in the Fukushima daichi plant was uncontrolled. However, even now TEPCO is struggling against contaminated water. Every day 400 tons of ground water flows into the under gro…

We have learned a lot of things from Great Kanto earth quake. The cause of serious damage was not the collapse of building. Most of the death toll of 200,000 was caused by the fires after the quake. The quake occurred at 11 50 AM, so all f…

Two big earthquakes hit Tokyo last week. The threat of a mega-quake has risen year by year, because more than 90 years have passed since the Great Kanto Earth Quake, in which more than 200,000 people died. Currently the Tokyo metropolitan …

Japanese like to eat rice with raw eggs. People from overseas can't believe this unique diet. The distribution of Japanese eggs is controlled strictly, so the raw eggs are very safe and high quality. For ordinary Japanese white rice with r…

Do you know the difference between beer and Happoushu? Why can we buy these Hpposhu brands ' Tanrei', 'Kinmugi' and 'Styke Free' at lower prices than beer such as 'Supre Dry' and 'Ichiban Shibori'? Happoushu is a liquor that tastes like be…

Shinagawa station is not located in Shinagawa Ward. The station is locates in Minato Ward. Why is the station located in aother ward? During the Edo period, Shinagawa was the first post station from Edo to Kiyoto. The shogunate unofficiall…

MacArthur road, the road that goes from Toranomon to Shinbashi opened on March 29th. The US embassy was located near Toranomon and the head-quarters of the GHQ was located near Shinabashi-Yuurakucho area, so the marshal forced the Japanese…

Last month, Abe took Obama to a famous sushi bar Jiro in Ginza. It costs 300 dollars per head on average. For ordinary Japanese people 'Jiro' does not mean 'sushi bar', 'Jiro' means 'ramen noodle shops'. If Abe had taken Obama to a ramen s…

If you want to talk about whaling with ordinary Japanese people peacefully, you should talk about school lunch in Japanese elementary school. For Japanese over 50 years old, whale steak was very major item on school lunch menu and the tast…

Edokko. people in Tokyo, love the year's first bonito more than people in the rest of Japan do. It is reported that the number of bonitos this spring is smaller than usual and it is very expensive, so people in Tokyo are disappointed with …