I’ve written about how Singapore, which celebrates the 60th anniversary of its independence from the United Kingdom this year, could...

The 23rd floor reception of the Club Lusitano in Hong Kong The Portuguese presence in East Asia is firmly anchored in Macau, which Ming...

A golden barrel cactus, known in Japanese as キンシャチ (kinshachi) or 金鯱 in kanji As the first Europeans to make contact with the Japanese,...

As the first Europeans that the Japanese encountered, the Portuguese made a deep cultural impact on the Land of the Rising Sun. Many...

福砂屋 (Fukusaya) logo incorporates a Portuguese ship. I wrote last year about the delicious Japanese castella cake  (カステラ) that originated...