I am a man of simpler tastes. For me, the top posts I’ve chosen weren’t necessarily filled with informative content or of culturally importance. Nope. No siree! The one’s I’ve chosen were the ones that made me laugh, the ones we had fun making, or the ones that set important milestones in Tofugu’s history. My [...]
Although I’ve been a long-time reader of Tofugu (since ‘07, I think?), this was my first year getting to write and work for Tofugu. It’s been a lot of fun writing and reading so many posts this year, especially because 2011 had more Tofugu posts than any other year ever. These 5 posts were my [...]
2011 was a great year for Tofugu (I mean, I’m here now, right?) and there have been a lot of good posts and a lot of good videos. Here I have singled out five of my absolute favorites from the year. If you haven’t already read these, you most definitely should. They are great and [...]
All the regular writers at Tofugu are writing about their favorite posts of 2011, so these are my favorites (koichi). These aren’t necessarily the most popular posts (in fact, none of them were much more than average by the popularity metric), but these are the posts I’m most proud of / the ones that entertained [...]
Where Is Japan? Is it even possible for people not to know this? Why even bring it up or let alone write an entire article about it? Even though approximately 2/3rds of American youths couldn’t find Iraq on a map and 88% couldn’t find Afghanistan in 2006 (not to mention 33% couldn’t find the state [...]
Japan is well-known for its amazing architecture, from its beautiful, ancient temples, to the incredible skyscrapers of the future, or even enormous futuristic pyramids. Japan is one of the few non-European countries to have received multiple Pritzker Prizes, architecture’s highest award. But believe it or not, Japanese architecture isn’t just a field for for museums [...]
Continuing with our series of articles on minority groups in Japan (previous posts include the Burakumin and the Brazilian-Japanese), we’ll take brief look into the (now officially recognized with hanko-stamp of approval by the Japanese Government as of 2008) indigenous group, the Ainu. The Ainu population is concentrated in the northern islands of modern Japan, specifically Hokkaido and Honshu. They [...]
