If you've been following Tofugu the last year, we've run a fair amount of posts about AKB48, Japan's hottest music group. They're a group of dozens of young, Japanese girls who have had hits on the Japanese charts for … [Read more...]
To me, one of the more interesting things about learning Japanese is when people say that they start to dream or think in Japanese. That's amazing because not only does it mean that those people are completely engrossed … [Read more...]
[threecol_two]Hospitals admit scores of ‘hanami’ revelers: Ah, spring in Japan. It's once again time to bask in the majesty of the cherry blossoms and get completely trashed while doing so. Some people don't realize that a … [Read more...]
Recently, Japan seems a lot like an Alfred Hitchcock movie. (No, not Psycho, but close.) Over the last twenty or so years, the crow population in Japan has simply exploded. They're not quite pecking people to death, but … [Read more...]
Not so long ago when I was in college, I took a class about Japanese culture and society. In one of our books, there was a graph about Japanese birth rates that looked like this: I saw the giant dip in birth rates in … [Read more...]
[threecol_two]Interactive 'posters' from Japan will react to being kissed: In yet another attempt to capture the extremely lucrative “‘forever alone’ Japanese bachelor” market, a research group is working on electronic … [Read more...]