If these videos (and photos) do not convince you to visit it I don't know what possibly can. Just watch/listen and enjoy.

How bad has the jellyfish problem gotten? So bad that a three man fishing boat capsized when trying to pull a net full of jellyfish in.

Translation of an interesting Japanese article about how there was no garbage in the Edo Period. Everything got recycled, from umbrellas to scraps of paper to human excrement.

I used to think that white people were evil. The bad of the world, as it was explained to me, often had a white face. But, during that time, somehow, genuine hate never crept into my heart. Then I come to Japan. The Japanese have had me thinking about hate quite a bit lately.

Former U.S. President George W. Bush is expected to toss out the first pitch at the Japan Series game 3

NHK announced a new service http://www.nhk.or.jp/creative/ allowing users to download and re-use copyrighted NHK material, then quickly pulled the service as it failed under the load. NHK fees at work . But still, it may be a great move. If users can get

Japanese public TV broadcaster NHK launched an online video library on Saturday consisting of several thousand video and sound clips collected from the broadcaster’s program archives. All content can be used free of charge and without any user registration required.