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Aren't they sexy? They are really Japanese men saving Japan's heritage. A tall man in the middle is Mr. Hayasaka Iori, who is a male kimono producer. A man in blue kimono next to him is a president of English learning school, CEL English Solutions. The pair held the kimono party in Tokyo on January 14, 2013. Recently very few Japanese wear kimono. Especially among men, very very few do. So a lot of kimono business went bankrupt. Kimono industry has been shrunk by that. If more foreigners encourage Japanese men to wear kimono, I think, more of us will wear that. I would...

In the beginning of this year, I went to Nozawa Onsen village in Nagano Prefecture. The below is last year's footage, February 2012. It is famous ski resort but it is also famous for natural hot spring town. The word, Onsen means natural hot spring in Japanese. Interestingly enough, the town is not only famous for Japanese skiers but Australians, New Zealanders and other...