In 1992, Kyouryuu Sentai ZyuRanger (Dinosaur Squad Beast Ranger) aired on TV Asahi in Japan. One year later, an Israeli TV producer named Haim Saban took the footage from ZyuRanger, cut out the Japanese cast and stories, … [Read more...]
大学は人生の春休み - College is the spring break of life. 遊ぶのは大学のうち - You can only play while you’re still in university. These are all various sayings which I have heard the Japanese use to describe their college lives. In … [Read more...]
I don't remember my first encounter with Hello Kitty. I have memories of being aware of her existence sometime in the late nineties, but there was no memorable first meeting. For me, Kitty-chan was neither here nor there. … [Read more...]
Editor's Note: Since Austin wrote about what it's like being East Asian while living in Japan, I thought it was appropriate to follow it up with Lenna's experience joining a club at her university and what she had to go … [Read more...]
This post is by Loco In Yokohama, author of Hi! My Name Is Loco And I Am A Racist and Loco In Yokohama which cover his English teaching adventures in Japan. The post itself is an excerpt from his new book (Loco In … [Read more...]
Over the next two weeks we'll be writing a small series of posts about non-Japanese people dating Japanese people from multiple perspectives. This first post is the most common of the three (possibly four) viewpoints we'll … [Read more...]