A year ago today, the fourth-largest earthquake in recorded history hit Japan, followed by a series of tsunami and nuclear meltdowns. I vividly remember watching the disaster unfold over a live video stream, hardly able … [Read more...]
Foods from other cultures can sometimes weird people out. It's a typical response to be confused and/or repulsed something that's not normal in your culture, but it's always a good idea to try to understand it before you … [Read more...]
Japan has always been at the forefront of technology, whether it's developing complex new robotics, or useless, useless crap. But I don't think most people realize that when it comes to space technology, Japan is right up … [Read more...]
[threecol_two] Silence! Japanese researchers build speech-jamming gun: Ever wish you could shut somebody up - with science? Thanks to Japan's seemingly endless wealth of wacky inventions, now you can! Researchers in Japan … [Read more...]
A lot of people have this misconception that you have to be smart to tackle big undertakings like learning Japanese, or anything else for that matter. The idea seems to be that if you're not smart enough to be immediately … [Read more...]
Over on Mutantfrog Travelogue, a post went up earlier this week called "My Japanese sucks and always will." The post talks about how the author, somebody who's a long-time student of Japanese, passed the JLPT 1, and has … [Read more...]