For those of you who are new to Japanese history, I’m probably going to confuse the heck out of you with this one. For those of you who have a bit of background knowledge, I’m going to blow your minds twice during the course of this article. Not only am I going to introduce you to the most compelling theory I’ve ever come across regarding…
Sushi is ubiquitous. With almost 200,000 Japanese restaurants worldwide, most of them serving some form of sushi, and the fact that sushi is ranking in more ‘Most popular foods’ lists than ever before, it’s arguably the most famous Japanese food in the world. But sushi didn’t always exist in the form we know it today. In fact, it has only existed in this form since…
Japan has experienced many battles in many forms over its long and varied history, from small personal skirmishes fought between political rivals and samurai clans to full-scale conflicts between groups of 100,000+, and even wars that lasted as long as a decade. Most had little to no impact on the country’s history and remain in the history books purely to give us a deeper insight…
