Japan

Juroku-nichi-sai

[:en]Juroku-nichi-sai is New Year’s Day for the ancestors. It’s the 16th day of the new year, the day after the first full moon in the moon calendar or lunar calendar.…

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Panari-Aragusuku

[:en]Aragusuku island isn’t one but two islands (Kamiji and Shimoji) separated by the ocean. Panari is dialect for ‘separated’. At low tide low tide, the water exposes coral that people can walk…

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Yaeyama food

[:en]On our food page, we wrote about Japan as a country for lovers of food, creativity and trends. There is so much to offer on health, traditions. For this reason alone…

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