Whoops, it’s been a while since I’ve done a writeup. Time to catch up. The hard part about these writeups is I can’t give away tooo much info, otherwise the actual TofuguTV video and writeups won’t be as interesting, but hopefully I’ll be able to do something inbetween. Day 3 is where the fun starts, [...]
Biggest mistake a techie can make when going to Japan: thinking that free, accessible wifi exists anywhere. Not sure why, but I guess I though Japan would have convenient wifi, like in America. Turns out even Starbucks and McDonalds (at least the ones I’ve been to) don’t have free wifi. Here’s a quick article showing [...]
Here’s the biggest thing I’ve learned the last couple days… Finding internet is tough. If you want to find internet, you have to make sacrifices. Normally I wouldn’t mind, but having internet is important for doing a good job supporting TextFugu, and for responding to your emails, and to write blog posts like this…
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 TofuguTV… at around $150 less than the going rate.
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, contrived, and television advertisement driven “holiday.” Personally, when it comes to made up holidays, [...]
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 you make pretty real sounding songs, using this singer. This software is so good, in fact, that this character has built up many many (did I [...]
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 about another cat island, except this one is in Japan, and it’s actually covered in cats, [...]
For better or worse, a large percentage of Japanese people spend more time in bars and “izakaya” (Japanese style pubs) than with their own families. That means that going to one of these places will arguably give you more chances to learn Japanese than if you actually had a host family (in some cases not [...]
Happy Halloween, everybody. To celebrate the occasion, I thought you might enjoy these 5 scary Japanese things that will educate and entertain you, hopefully a little bit. At the very least, it will show you that Japan isn’t just a country full of cute animated characters. It’s also a country of FEAR.
Japan has the oldest life expectancy in the world. That means people in Japan live a really really long time. Men live to 79 years old. Women live a little over 86 years old. What in the world causes Japanese people to live so long? After WWII, Japan had one of the lowest life expectancies [...]
