Archive | June, 2011

Utsuro Bune: Japan’s First Modern UFO Encounter

Have you heard of utsuro bune? No, I don’t mean the metal band. Utsuro bune was one of the first modern UFO sightings, and it happened way back in the Edo period in Japan. A lot of people believe that utsuro bune is definitive proof that we aren’t alone in the universe, but I’m a [...]

Save The Salarymen Foundation

Help A Salaryman. Watch This Video. It’s come to my attention that Japanese wives have been getting more and more stingy with their husband’s spending money. While in 1990 Japanese salarymen received on average 76,000 yen per month to spend on lunch, beer and other fun things, salarymen of today only get on average 36,500 [...]

Internship Update

A few weeks ago, we announced our first-ever summer internship. Between that post and last Friday when the application closed, we’ve heard so much from so many wonderful people. I wanted to share some of the stats from the great Tofugu internship application of 2011: 224 applicants. People ranging from ages 13-46. Readers from tons [...]