It's been a week since the Tofugu team's gotten back from Japan and I'm reading my Twitter feed. All of a sudden, I start seeing all of these crazy pictures of Tokyo. No, Godzilla's not attacking — the skies above Tokyo … [Read more...]
During Tofugu's recent trip to Japan, I racked my brain for what souvenirs I wanted to bring back home with me. After all, I don't get to go to Japan very often, so I wanted to get as much as I could before coming back to … [Read more...]
Japan has a well-earned reputation as the land of cute. Everything from its mascots to its pop stars have been carefully engineered from the ground up to make you push in your cheeks and say "Awww!" But that cuteness … [Read more...]
As you might know, the Tofugu team just came back from a month-long trip to Japan. It'd been a while since any of us had been to Japan but for me, it had been 13 years. In that time, I had grown a lot and also forgotten … [Read more...]
There's a little-known phenomenon in history called “dancing mania,” and it's pretty much exactly what it sounds like: huge groups of people start dancing for no real reason until they're completely exhausted. It's a rare, … [Read more...]
When I first came to Japan when I was 11 years old, Japanese TV was a source of mystery and wonder to me. I kinda knew about all of the parodies about Japanese game shows, and I can remember sitting transfixed in a hotel … [Read more...]