Tabi socks are called the Japanese, where the big toe is separated from the other toes. For this reason, the ankle support materials in German are often described as toe socks. Were invented for the use of so-called Tabi Geta or Zori. Because these traditional Japanese footwear plants consist of two straps that pass through between the first and second toe, also had the socks are tailored accordingly.

Night cruises through the industrial part of Tokyo Bay are the latest hit among Japan's tourism offerings. The Tourism Bureau of Kawasaki City, located between Tokyo and Yokohama, offers this unusual tour to two times a month. The adventure will cost 4,000 yen per person.

Starbucks has reinvented itself. Just 40 years after its founding, the American coffee chain, their logo has undergone a complete redesign. The lettering “Starbucks Coffee” is gone, only the mermaid remains. The hallmark of future smiles in white against a green background on the customer. The last edge of the logo were sanded off.

Addition to Japan, it is for Facebook to conquer China. But this task turns out to be Knachknuss. In Japan, Mixi dominates the market in China already compete various platforms such as Kaixin Wang, QQ Wang and Renren Kongjian for the favor of users that meet all of a function similar to Facebook: people connect with each other.

In China, Internet users may purchase access to an iTunes account for 200 yuan. Once paid, the buyer receives a given iTunes login with a matching password. While 24 hours may be so consumed music, movies, or applications worth 150 €. On China's largest online platform Taobao.com selling this illegal business is offered.

Sushi has started a worldwide success through the capitals of the world. Meanwhile, the numerous sushi creations offered in the West are not only exclusive but also restaurants, coffee shops, cafeterias and supermarkets.This development is the Japanese Association of sushi restaurant owners worried.

According to the Yomiuri Shimbun, Japanese researchers have produced under the direction of Professor Hiroshi Kitagawa at Kyoto University with the help of nanotechnology, an alloy of rare earth palladium is similar – an element that comes on the periodic table between rhodium and silver are to . For Japan, this means a first step towards the erosion of commodity-dependence on China.

The koi carp is Of Japan's most famous toy fish and a must for every wealthy Japanese man who maintains a garden with a private pond. Although bred abroad, the Japanese specimens are regarded as the world's finest and most expensive. Thus, since a few years his multi-colored scaly pattern also drag the layer to the Chinese nouveau riche.

Mixi is Japan with 22 million users continues arguably the largest social network in Japan. The American rival Facebook with a lot of effort trying to make up for the lead, has explained CEO Mark Zuckerberg since Japan became an important growth market. According to market research company Nielsen, the American Social Network has over relatively modest 1.

Japanese family spends their Christmas dinners like fried chicken dinner at the American fast food restaurant Kentucky Fried Chicken. Colonel Sanders, the founder and figurehead of the mark, each changed clothes for Christmas and no reservation is between 23 and 25 December nothing. Meanwhile, most Japanese believe that a chicken and not a turkey or ham is the standard meal on Christmas Eve in the West.