Last week, the New York Times published a story called “The Myth of Japan's Failure” about how people (especially in the West) tend to view Japan's economy. Even though Japan has the third largest economy in the world, … [Read more...]
I am a man of simpler tastes. For me, the top posts I've chosen weren't necessarily filled with informative content or of culturally importance. Nope. No siree! The one's I've chosen were the ones that made me laugh, the … [Read more...]
Although I've been a long-time reader of Tofugu (since ‘07, I think?), this was my first year getting to write and work for Tofugu. It's been a lot of fun writing and reading so many posts this year, especially because … [Read more...]
2011 was a great year for Tofugu (I mean, I'm here now, right?) and there have been a lot of good posts and a lot of good videos. Here I have singled out five of my absolute favorites from the year. If you haven't already … [Read more...]
All the regular writers at Tofugu are writing about their favorite posts of 2011, so these are my favorites (koichi). These aren't necessarily the most popular posts (in fact, none of them were much more than average by … [Read more...]
Do you know what is probably the number one thing keeping people (and possibly you) from learning Japanese? Fear. Cold, dank, heart stopping, FEAR. Well, okay, maybe it's not that bad. But it's at least an underlying … [Read more...]