Sake has a rich history complete with dragons and gods in ancient Japan. Today, the rice wine is still sacred and has UNESCO recognition for its intangible cultural heritage. Explore the rice wine in ...

The onsen resort village in Matsuyama, Shikoku – the smallest of Japan’s four main islands – is touted as the country’s ...

The most fearsome deity in the Japanese pantheon is surely Yamata no Orochi. In the ancient chronicle Kojiki, it is described as a serpent having eight heads, eight tails, and a body long enough ...

She began working full-time as a translator in 1988, while being trained by Donald Philippi, a Japan scholar who had translated the Kojiki. She has been teaching Japanese to English translation at ...

The Mandé and Sumerians tell of people growing from seeds or moulded from earth; Rigveda, the ancient Hindu sacred text, and the Kojiki, the earliest written Japanese chronicle, speak of births from ...