Boos tagged #ceas

It’s New Year in Japan which means…it’s time to sing about fireflies. The song Hotaru no Hikari (HOE TAH ROO no HEE KAH REE) or light of ...

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger. Confucius said that. And fifty years ago, kong zi, as he is known in China, w...

Traditionally, Japan has had two major religions: Shinto and Buddhism with Buddhism supplying the Shinto practitioners with the comfort o...

Is the afterlife, like, the best vacation spot ever or is it just your standard bureaucracy with a rigid power structure and officials ra...

During the seven weeks that the Buddha sat under his bodhi tree back in the sixth century BC, it’s unlikely that he envisioned the scenar...

By now, everyone has seen the five Olympic Friendlies: the colorful mascots created to welcome this summer’s Olympic Games. The little gu...

It’s autumn in Japan and in autumn men’s fancies turn to...bashing each other with large portable shrines. At least here in Himeji they d...

Bathtubs here in South Korea are, sadly, available for actual bathing this fall. No napa cabbage heads bob merrily on the water waiting t...

“The 24 Paragons of Filial Piety” is a sort of extreme parent-care manual. Written 600 years ago, the book features tales like the one o...

Once there was a Japanese violin prodigy named Nejiko Suwa. Born in 1920, Suwa made her debut in 1939, in Paris, just one year before the...