If you’re looking for a fun, heartwarming, and unforgettable cultural experience in Japan this spring, make sure to mark your calendar for Sunday, May 18, 2025. That’s when the Kobe Festival, the city’s biggest annual event, will light up the streets with music, dance, parades, and community spirit!

Every spring, Japan bursts into color with its iconic cherry blossoms—but have you ever heard of fuji? Known in English as wisteria, this cascading bloom is one of Japan’s most cherished flowers, both for its beauty and the deep cultural meaning behind it.

Pay It Forward is a term that many of us have heard.  However, do you know the meaning behind it?  The easiest way to define paying it forward is receiving money or help from someone and feeling moved to ‘pay it forward’ to the next person.  If this feeling compels the next person, the result is usually a long chain of people helping the next person.  The ‘pay’ can be the same thing you received or something that you see someone needs.  

Check out the Impact Women's Weekend presentation by our Global Community Team Leader, Jasmine Tsunoda, presented by We Are The Impact and Tokyo Innovation Base.

The Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route is a mountain sightseeing route that connects Tateyama Town in Toyama Prefecture and Omachi City in Nagano Prefecture. From April 15 to June 25, a part of the snow corridor around Murodo will be open to pedestrians.

The Hummingbird Program was launched in 2012 with the message that “all of the small things that each of us can do, when added up, will beco

If you are in the Hikone area and you like kabuki, you should check out the Nagahama Hikiyama festival that takes place every April 9th thro

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