If you're a super old school Tofugu reader, you might remember back in the day when Erin kicked off a series about mystical Japanese creatures called obake by writing about our large-balled racoon-dog friends, the tanuki. … [Read more...]
We were really busy here at Tofugu during the month of June. During this last month, we made more videos than the last several months combined! If you don't follow our every move, here's a roundup of all our videos from … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
If you're super cool and observant, you may have noticed that the menu bar at the top of the site has changed. That's because we've cleaned up the site a bit, updated the ancient About page, cut down on categories for … [Read more...]
Japan's pretty well known for its martial arts like karate, judo, kendo and sumo. These martial arts have been around for hundreds of years, are sometimes seen at the Olympics, and are taken very seriously A friend of mine … [Read more...]