For many people, the idea of learning a foreign language is both exciting and intimidating, especially if the thought brings back memories of learning a second language in middle school or high school.
The truth is that learning a foreign language is a lot easier than most people expect particularly if you follow these tips which [...]

Green tea is a domain, under which you get a number of sub groups. The variants of green tea have different names and the usage and properties also differ from each other, though fundamentally they are the same. Apart from Chinese tea, there are other countries which produce green tea. Japan is the second biggest [...]

“A picture is worth a thousand words.”  How many times have we heard that?  Since early times, humans have made pictures of things and events around them, both because visual representations give pleasure and because they create a record.  The invention of the motion picture camera and of its derivatives in the digital age have [...]

In the eighteen hundreds a certain Japanese gentleman was very popular when it came to rice trading. He is supposed to have acquired over a hundred trades, and the secret to his success lay in candlestick charts.

Most people have never heard of a candlestick chart. It is nothing but something like your regular [...]

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Learning to trade forex seems simple ands easy on the surface, but all the successful people who have spent time learning to trade forex properly will tell you that there’s much more to it than meets the eye. They are only partly right.
While you are learning to trade forex, bear in [...]

The game of Japanese Chess is called “Shogi” in Japan. Shogi shares some similarities with Chess and both games are believed to be derived from the Indian game of Chaturanga. However, there are several unique features to Shogi that distinguish it from Chess.

The first couple of things Chess players are likely to notice about Shogi [...]

It was centuries ago that a rice trader in Japan devised a method of price recordation which told him what he wanted to know about the psychology of his fellow traders.  It was almost like a living, breathing second-by-second tracking of their mood of the moment that gave him an advantage.  The secret to it, [...]

Have you ever wondered how the Japanese seem to live longer than anyone else and what the secret to Japanese skincare is that keeps them looking so young?
There are of course many factors to it including diet, exercise and the climate, but there does seem to be another factor nicknamed the Japanese beauty preserver, and [...]

It was centuries ago that a rice trader in Japan devised a method of price recordation which told him what he wanted to know about the psychology of his fellow traders.  It was almost like a living, breathing second-by-second tracking of their mood of the moment that gave him an advantage.  The secret to it, [...]

Like traders everywhere, one particular rice trader in Japan centuries ago was always searching for an “edge” in his analysis of the market. He developed a system of price recordation which, in his view, captured the essence of the psychology of the traders with whom he was doing business. Rather than recording prices in a [...]