Live on Sun, Jan 23, 2011 (JST) at 4pm. The weekly live streaming show to talk about what's happening in Japan. It's the season of college entrance exam. Half a million high school students took a college entrance exam last week. We got hold of the English test. Why don't we take it live at YokosoNews Weekly!? Read More

January 22 is Curry Day (カレーの日) in Japan. All schools serve curry during Kyushoku (school meal or 給食). This date goes back to San Fransisco in 1946 by a Japanese American journalist. Read More

On Thursday, January 20th, 2011, the president of Japanese mobile phone company and vice-governor of Tokyo agreed to install cell phone antenna. The meeting sounded nothing special unless this meeting originated from one tweet by a ordinary man 6 day before. Read More

Excitement rose as 4:30 neared. There was Nino surrounded by security. Nino (Kazunari Ninomiya) wore black leather pants, black leather vest with vertical zipper trim, and a light grey suit jacket, and the most amazing black patent leather shiny, shiny and shiny pointy toed boots. Read More

On the 2nd weekend of Nagoya, Japan, the scenary was full of Coming of Age (せいじんしき or 成人式) in Nagoya, Japan. Read More

Live on Sun, Jan 16, 2011 (JST) at 4pm. The weekly live streaming show to talk about what's happening in Japan. In this week, we will talk about what you want us to cover for 2011. YokosoNews is social media that you can participate. Please join us to build YokosoNews together! Read More

On January 14 or 15 (or other date), Japanese conduct the ceremony called, Sagicho (さぎちょう, 左義長 or 三毬杖) or Donto-yaki (どんと焼き) to burn Kadomatsu and Shimenawa from Shogatsu. Read More

Live on Jan 9, 2011 (JST) at 4pm. The weekly live streaming show to talk about what's happening in Japan. The first YNW in 2011 will talk about Comic Market 79 (Comiket). The world's largest artist/otaku/manga/hobbist exhibit. We will welcome a Japanese otaku veteran who has been to Comiket 20 times to talk about what to prepare for Comiket. Read More

Nanakusa-gayu (ななくさがゆ, or 七草粥) is the porridge that you eat on January 7th, 2011. Take a rest from eating all kinds of festivity food in Japan. Read More

Hatsuhinode means the first sunrise (of the year) in Japanese. Ancient Japanese believed that Sun is one of thousand gods. And it was the most important God. Japanese, then, think it's very sacred to see and pray to the 1st sunrise of the year. Then now, Many Japanese go to the beach or climb mountain to witness the first sunrise of the year. Read More