Perhaps it's climate change. Perhaps it was the particularly hot summer and the lack of acorns. Perhaps it's because of habitat loss... who knows. All I know is Japanese bear attacks have hit a sharp rise, and that's no … [Read more...]
Got a question this morning asking how to get cheap plane tickets to go to Japan. I don't know if any ticket at all is going to be cheap right now, but here's how I got my airplane tickets to go to Japan to film … [Read more...]
On Twitter and Facebook I've been teasing TofuguTV. Now I'm ready to let you know what it is... and it's not a revolutionary new way to consume fugu in front of your television set. Am I going to be on "real" television? … [Read more...]
So last year on November 11 (that's Pocky Day) I thought I was pretty clear in my explanation on what Pocky Day is. Apparently not clear enough, though. This year, it's time to help you to make sense of this crazy, … [Read more...]
[yframe url='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMtzNv7pqfA'] Okay, I thought Dave Matthews was weird. I was wrong. This is weird. Hatsune Miku is a character made up for Vocaloid, which is basically some software that lets … [Read more...]
Check out our travels to Cat Island over on TofuguTV! The other day, I wrote about "Cat Island, Mississippi" where the American army tried to train dogs to hunt Japanese people by smell. Today, I'm going to tell you … [Read more...]