bite-JAPAN Guide to Japan and Japanese Culture

Caterpillar's Murmur

Happy New Year!

(THU) January 1st, 2026

9:15 p.m. Happy New Year, everyone! hope you're having a nice beginning of the year 2026. What I like about New Year's Day is that the whole town is quiet, wrapped in solemn air to greet the new year.

I didn't get to enjoy much of the peace and quiet, though as I had to design greeting cards. Now? Yes, now, since I've been neglecting. Therefore, I haven't been able to check out Kyoto Kinpai yet. The books I signed out at the library are still piled up. I wonder when I'd get the chance to read them?

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Caterpillar

Murmurs From the Past

Basic Information About Japan

Pick Up

Pocketchange

Pocketchange - How to charge your left-over Yen to digital money

If you are ready to leave Japan but have your pocket heavy with leftover Japanese Yen, why not empty your pockets and feel light with Pocketchange?

Holidays

Holidays of January

January 1st (MON)
New Year's Day
January 12th (MON)
Coming of Age Day

Food Catalog

Cream Anmitsu

Cream Anmitsu

Fed up with the heat? Here's a nice cold Japanse-style sweets to cheer you up! Cream Anmitsu is a delux version of Anmitsu, Kanten(Japanese gelatine) jelly and fruits with ice cream topping and Kuromitsu caramel sauce poured over it. And what's great, it's low calorie!

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airframe seen from side

Manned flight by oxyride dry-cell batteries project

The Tokyo Institute of Technology in cooperation with Panasonic, has led the project 'Manned Flight by Oxyride Dry-cell Battery' into the world's first success. On July 16th this year (2006), they made success in a trial of manned flight using commercially available oxyride batteries, in a project that they had been bringing forward together.