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What Japan’s two capitals have in common: millennial Kyoto and modern Tokyo

the names "Kyoto" and "Tokyo" are suspiciously similar, and people unfamiliar with Japan sometimes wonder whether they are not the…

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How ancient pyramids ended up underwater and where to see them

No one doubts that as a result of a large-scale flood, some of the ancient cities of the Earth went…

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Keyhole tombs: What ancient Japanese burial mounds hide

Japan is interesting because it constantly surprises people with its originality and, at the same time, with its similarity with…

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Art of Suiseki: How the East taught the world to admire stones

If for the Western mindset, this attraction to stones is more like a childish appeal and echo of childhood, for…

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Interesting historical facts about Japan you never know

Japan is a unique country with a very colourful and distinctive history, bordering Korea, Russia and China. The country has…

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Why Japanese Empress Masako is called Oriental Princess Diana

Every girl seems to dream of meeting her prince. One of them is the current Empress of Japan, Masako.

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Mimizuka: the dark secret kept by a strange Japanese monument with a cute name

The Mimizuka is a memorial in Kyoto, Japan, dedicated to the severed noses of Korean soldiers and civilians killed during…

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A place scarier than Bermuda Triangle, which sailors call the Devil’s Sea

Bermuda Triangle has earned a notoriety for ships, planes that disappeared without a trace, but there is an equally sinister…

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Life of a Japanese man who spent 2 million to turn into a collie

Some quite adults seriously want to turn into a four-legged pet. And one of these eccentrics completely got into a…

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Sokushinbutsu: how the Japanese mummified themselves

In Japan, Sokushinbutsu refers to Buddhist monks who practice austerity until the point of death and then undergo mummification.

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Where does the tradition of kneeling come from?

Kneeling is a primitive action used to demonstrate reverence by making the kneeling person seem smaller than the other.

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The Hachishakusama: A scary tale of eight feet tall woman

Hashishakusama is a Japanese urban legend about a tall woman who steals children. She is eight feet tall, wears a…

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