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koichi - who has written 68 posts on Tofugu.com.
Koichi is a cool frood that knows where his towel's at. He created Tofugu, and is currently working on a few other projects as well: Koichiben, Vlogly, & (soon) BoxedTofu.
Takeru Kobayashi Loses Hot Dog Eating Contest again. Shouldn’t go swimming for at least 30 minutes
Maybe it’s time he commits seppuku, though, I don’t know if I’d want to see a stomach full of hot dogs get disemboweled. It’s been a year since the last “Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest” at Coney Island, when reigning king (at the time) of eating food “really really fast” lost his title, and his [...]
Continue reading...What’s the difference between San, Sama, Kun, & Chan?
I know this will be really basic for a lot of you, but recently, I’ve noticed a lot of people having trouble with which honorific to put on the end of a name. Not only have I gotten several emails specifically asking what the difference between them, but I’ve also had a barrage of folks [...]
Continue reading...Tofugu’s ThankYou Postcard Contest Winners…Everybody wins!
I was dreading having to choose my “favorite” postcard shot from the ThankYou Postcard contest, but, somewhat luckily, we only got four submissions. Now, originally we said that only three could win, but since we got four, and since I’ve got a lot of extra postcards, I thought it would be nice to extend that [...]
Continue reading...How to Study Japanese Over the Summer
Well, it’s that time of year, isn’t it? Some of you are getting out of school for summer break and some of you haven’t had to go to school for decades. Some of you took Japanese classes at school, and some of you are self-taught. Either way, summer makes it really easy not to continue [...]
Continue reading...Godzilla Desktops for Your Computer
Ack, it’s been a while since last post. I’m working on a really good article (I think), but in the meantime, I thought I’d show you a sample of something you might see in our “free store,” which will come out along side our “normal store” hopefully in the next couple of weeks. We’ll see [...]
Continue reading...Lang-8 Video Review (video)
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Continue reading...Got Your Tofugu Thank You Card Yet? Win a Set of Your Own!
So as many of you know, I sent out the thank you cards in response to all of you helping me out with my thesis. Once again, Thank you very much for your help, it turned out pretty awesome! Still, I have a bunch of postcards left over, and I want to give some of [...]
Continue reading...Tofugu’s in a book!
So, the other day, I got a book in the mail. It was for an interview I had done several months back about my two v/blogs, Koichiben and Tofugu. Turns out, this interview takes up two pages of Frederick Levy’s new book: 15 Minutes of Fame, Becoming a Star in the YouTube Revolution. The book has [...]
Continue reading...Happy Birthday, Tofugu!
That’s right, little guy, you’re 1 year old! Wow, has it already been a year? I mean, this is only a blip in the radar compared to Buddha’s birthday, but I think it’s big news nonetheless! Here, we made you all a birthday video, check it out after the jump!
Continue reading...Nara Actually gets a new Mascot, kinda-sorta
Remember back in the day when Nara’s new mascot was supposed to be the creepy baby deer man (sounds similar to manbearpig, yeah?) shown crossed out above? Well, it seems as though the public outcry was strong enough, and Nara will be getting a much more attractive mascot called “Manto-Kun.” Definitely an improvement, though, you [...]
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Friday, July 4, 2008