Using this site you can find out about Japanese society and culture through a range of contents.

• You can gather all sorts of info on traditional culture, fashion, technology, fads and crazes, pop culture, food and so on, and as a result deepen your understanding of Japan.
• It isn't a site that is mainly concerned with Japanese study itself, although one of the sections, Kids Web Japan (Introduction article), has a study page where you can learn basic greetings and conversational Japanese.

There are 6 sections of contents in all. If you're looking for some specific information on something, you can use the convenient 'Category Search' function.

We'll introduce each of the contents briefly below.

Trends in Japan

A wide range of topics on modern Japan are introduced here, including fashion, food, pop culture and lifestyle.