First of all, me and my team here at Japan Uptown wants to wish everyone a very Happy New Year and may you all be blessed with prosperous times ahead and all the best of luck!
Happy 2011 everyone!
New Year celebration is indeed a very big thing in Japan. The Japanese started to adopt the Gregorian calendar five years after the Meiji restoration in 1873. Before that, like all it’s other similar roots countries like Korea and China, they have been adopting the Chinese calendar. Therefore now, 1st of January marks …

Looking above at Fujisan, The Highest Point in Japan

The highest mountain in Japan at 3,776m or 12,388 ft above sea level. Fuji san is the most loved and treasured by the Japanese. Located on the border of Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures in central Honshu, Fujisan boast a superb conical form that has become famous throughout the world as a symbol of Japan and has inspired generations of Japanese artists and poets. Due to its location which is just to the west of Tokyo, it can be seen from the highest …

Osaka, Japan, is the third most populated city in Japan with a population of 2.6 million people residing in this city.

Osaka is also one of the major hearts of the Kansai region on Japan’s main island, Honshu, besides Kyoto. The city is also divided into 24 wards and has a reputation throughout Japan as an international and progressive business center besides known for its great food, castle, port, underground shopping arcade, shopping centers and Bunraku puppet theater. People in Osaka speaks a different dialect from those in Tokyo, they speak …

2010 World Most Expensive City
Last year, the city ranked second but this year, due to the rising strength of yen has brought back Tokyo, Japan to the number one spot in the top 10 listing of most expensive cities in the world, as per information provided by BusinessWeek, beating Luanda, Angola down to number three this year. If you haven’t noticed or realized just how expensive it is the cost of living in Japan, perhaps knowing that in just the first 10 of the expensive cities in the world list, …

Fall season or autumn (or ‘Aki’) in Japan starts in the early September, and it is also the season of typhoon. This year Japan was visited by infamous Typhoon Melor in the near mid of autumn. Weather resembling that of the rainy season also occurs because of the autumnal rain fronts. The weather clears in mid-October, and the winter winds start to blow. If summer is a season of fun, festivals and holidays, autumn in Japan is more like a season of relaxing and pure enjoyment of nature and it …

Irrashai minna!!
Japan has been my favorite country for a number of reasons. I guess these reasons, which I had in mind now proved to be strong enough for me to initiate a specially dedicated blog about this country, the people, lifestyle and culture et cetera et cetera.
Yes, I’ll definitely going to write a lot of interesting stuff about Japan here in this blog. Honestly? No, I’ve never been to Japan before but I’ve been doing a lot of casual researches on the country and stuffs related to it through books, …