Japan Finds - Discover Japanese Culture and Life in Japan

Japan Finds is an online platform for sharing Japanese culture with the world through photos, videos, and other creative content. Topics on Japan Finds include Travel in Japan, Japanese Pop Culture, Japanese Customs, and Japanese Foods.

My mission is to spread universal awareness and appreciation of Japan. To build a place where people can come to find and discover anything they might want to know about life in Japan and Japanese culture. Japan Finds is committed to giving people the power to learn and share information about Japan.

Sakurasou No Pet Na Kanojo – Anime Review

Sakurasou No Pet Na Kanojo brings all the traditional elements of anime together to introduce a beautiful story full of love, pain, and the idea of failure. This is the story of Sakurasou. The dorm itself serves as a home to students of Suiko High School. Seems like a pretty simple premise at first except [...]

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Learning the Japanese Writing System

Japanese is not a difficult language to learn. People are always surprised by this response when they ask me about the experience. Although it may sound very exotic to Westerners when compared to other European languages, it’s actually a pretty simple system. It just seems a lot harder because it probably has no relation to [...]

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Oreimo Subway in Japan

Here’s an Oreimo Subway in Japan. From the anime Ore no Imōto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai 俺の妹がこんなに可愛いわけがない “My little sister can’t be this cute” comes a promotional subway train in Tokyo, Japan for the upcoming second season. Now you’ve probably browsed through dozens of these types of posts and think that anime [...]

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Live Action Shakugan No Shana OP 2

When I built Japan Finds, one of my greatest missions was finding new and interesting content about Japan. For the most part, this included finding culturally relevant, historically significant, or geographically important information. But that also includes one very important ingredient. Japan Finds is also about sharing interesting content developed by everyone, not only limited [...]

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Ramen – The Only Guide You Need

Ramen is a Japanese noodle dish. It was originally imported to Japan from China during the Meiji Period. These Japanese noodles are usually boiled and served in different flavored soups alongside many other toppings. The most popular ramen dishes in Japan are served in meat or fish based broth, often flavored with soy sauce or [...]

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Cowboy Bebop – Anime Review

Cowboy Bebop stylistically builds on the formula of a multi-genre piece, exploiting with finesse a number of contrasting styles, which blend seamlessly and make the anime a thoroughly enjoyable experience. Its flair for sharp dialogue and stylistic excellence make each and every one of its episodes truly a joy to watch. In all, Cowboy Bebop [...]

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Sushi – The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide

Sushi is one of Japan’s finest delicacies. This delightful Japanese food consists of cooked vinegared rice combined with raw seafood and other fresh ingredients. With hundreds of variations to choose from, sushi remains one of the most exceptional ways to please the palate and sooth the senses. Personally, sushi is one of my absolute favorite [...]

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Halloween in Japan

Halloween in Japan has grown significantly in the past decade from an obscure western tradition to a day of colorful Halloween decorations, candies, costumes, parties and parades. If you glanced around Japanese department stores in late September throughout October, you would see that Halloween has become quite the holiday in Japan. This year has really [...]

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