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Mochitsuki is not for wimps
Mochi rice cakes and the folklore surrounding its making constitutes the core of New Year’s celebrations in Japan. The status of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity inscribed to washoku in December 2013, clearly specifies that ‘the basic knowledge and the...
How traditional is ‘traditional’ Japanese cuisine? [⇗]
UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage has just announced this year’s additions to its Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Among the winners is an entry that was submitted by the...
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- The catalogue of the exhibition Too Pretty to Throw Away: Packaging Design from Japan is now available for download 17/9/2017
- Opakowanie aż szkoda wyrzucić 3/12/2016
- Een museum vol afval 5/6/2016
- WIRED: The Japanese Barely Eat Whale. So Why Do They Keep Whaling? 7/12/2015
- Japan omarmt jeugdcultuur (Volkskrant, 29 July 2014) 20/8/2014
- “Volgens de NVAO is het niveau van vrijwel alle studies in taal- en letterkunde, regiostudies en archeologie voldoende of goed.” 24/6/2014
- Call for Papers, new journal Global Food History 2/2/2014