-Originally built to launch Regulus II cruise missiles, Halibut was repurposed to carry out secret reconnaissance missions, ...

What is a Japanese spider crab? They may look like something from a 1950s sci-fi film, but Japanese spider crabs are gentle giants. And giants they are. Of the 60,000 species of crustaceans on ...

Allow a 200g/7oz fillet or steak per person. If you can’t find halibut, turbot is a suitable substitute. Small halibut, called chicken halibut, weigh up to 2kg/4½lb and can be bought whole.

Thatched roofs were once a common sight in the Japanese countryside, but they started to disappear in the 1950s, when people began migrating en masse to the cities. You can still see them in ...

The same is true when it comes to Japan. Gaming fans can easily travel to and around Japan thanks to these fun and complex games that let their players explore everything from modern Tokyo to ...

JOMON (10,000 - 300 B.C.) Prehistoric period of tribal/clan organization. Stone Age hunters and gatherers who make jomon (rope-patterned) pottery inhabit Japan. 660 B.C. Mythological Jimmu ("Divine ...

Japan's population is in freefall, with fewer babies born, more elderly in the workforce, and a shrinking number of residents overall. The country faces a demographic crisis that policymakers fear ...

Japanese is a language isolate, spoken by 121 million people in Japanese archipelago. There are small Japanese communities in American Samoa, Hawaii, North and South ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. A popular type of white fish, halibut is known for its toothsome ...

While summer is technically over, we’re still being treated to some sunshine here in the UK (we like to do things out our own ...

To many Japanese, racism towards black people has long been considered something that happens in the US or Europe, not at home. But when the death of George Floyd in the US sparked a wave of ...

For complete chart: https://www.billboard-japan.com/charts/detail?a=hot100 A weekly ranking of the most popular songs in Japan combining physical and digital sales ...