Wara Art Festival has been taking place in Niigata City since 2008 as a collaboration between the city’s tourism division and the Musashino Art University. Rice straws left after the harvest are used to create massive astonishing sculptures.

A Utah mom has recently made a Japanese-themed birthday party for her daughter, Caitlyn, but Tumblr as always found a note of racism in this. So that’s where a Japanese person had to intervene to explain what real racism is and how it is different from cultural appropriation and cultural appreciation.

To create such a house it takes only about 2 hours of time, but they are able to stand for more than 300 years after that!

Japanese people know that what you eat affects you massively and they learn it at a very young age. For them, school lunch is a crucial part of education – not a break from it. That’s why they try so hard to keep children’s meals so healthy and nutritious.

Although most urban drainage canals look like apocalyptic rivers of doom, and are full of junk and some suspicious liquids, this Japanese canal is an example for all of those.

March 2017 is the six-year anniversary of Japan's Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, which caused the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, a series of hydrogen explosions which caused the worst consequences since Chernobyl.

It’s obvious they live together for a long time as they are complementing each other even through their dressing style. Even though they’re in their sixties, their style is unmatched and they go by the name bonpon511 on Instagram (a combination of their names, plus the date of their wedding anniversary) and have over 150k followers there.