About GIZUMO NEWS JAPAN

GIZUMO NEWS JAPAN is an English-first regional information service. We collect official announcements published by Japanese municipalities and public bodies — local events, exhibitions, community news and seasonal information — and present them in English so that people outside Japan can discover what is happening across the country, beyond the major tourist routes.

Why we do this

Japan has far more to offer than its famous landmarks: local festivals, small museums, community sports, shrines, temples, food and craft traditions in every prefecture. Most of that information is published only in Japanese. We translate and organise it so the wider world can find it — and so that readers may go on to visit these places, buy local products, and enjoy Japanese culture first-hand.

Editorial standards

Every article is based on an identified official source, and the original Japanese source is linked on the article page together with the date it was retrieved. Facts such as dates, times, venues and prices are taken from the source and are not invented. Translations are edited for accuracy; where a source is ambiguous, we say so rather than guess. Corrections are welcome and are applied to the article together with a note.

Operator

GIZUMO NEWS JAPAN is operated by TOKOTOKO LLC (合同会社TOKOTOKO), 2-1-9 Omachi, Takikawa, Hokkaido 073-0022, Japan.
Contact: info-tokotoko@gizumo.net