A $35 afternoon tea set served at the British pavilion at the Osaka Expo has left Japanese social media aghast at its perfunctory paper cups, sending Britain's embassy into damage-control mode.

a Japanese government white paper released Friday shows. The percentage in Japan was also lower than three other countries referenced for comparison in the 2024 White Paper on Information and ...

Furoshiki is the Japanese art of aesthetically folding square-shaped material for practical purposes, such as gift wrapping, transporting daily items or even decoration. Incorporating traditional ...

I’m in a meeting room at Tokyo’s Palace Hotel, taking a class in Japanese etiquette with ... “please don’t tear the wrapping paper”. If it’s possible, peel it off carefully then ...

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If you want to take a stroll around this park in Japan, you will have to be very nimble on your toes. A park roughly the size of four sheets of paper in Japan’s central prefecture of Shizuoka ...

Domestic shipments of paper and paperboard in 2024 dropped 2.9% from the previous year to 19.91 million tons, the lowest in 39 years, the Japan Paper Association said Thursday. The drop came as ...

But these cutting edge seats have an unlikely nemesis: toilet paper. Toto, a top Japanese toilet bowl maker, said last week that users should refrain from wiping their seats with toilet paper ...

Here's a refresher, with tips from USA TODAY, on whether your wrapping paper, ribbons and cards can be recycled or should be sent off to the landfill. Recycling paper is generally all right ...

As much a person might like to recycle the wrapping paper on gifts, it's not something the city's material recovery facility can accept. As noted in online information, wrapping paper can have ...

From picking up piles of wrapping paper and tossing plates and utensils from family dinner, to eventually letting go of your carefully selected Christmas tree, cleaning up after the holidays can ...