Move aside Ice Road Truckers. While you may drive your huge rigs in treacherous conditions, there is one thing you are lacking: you aren’t doing it in style. Yeah, it’s a bummer there are DOT laws and the sort that restricts awesome modifications such as the these: I do think it’s worth paying the $5,000 [...]
Sometimes it might be easy to think that all Japanese science and technology is all poop motorcycles and brain-powered cat ears. Sometimes, all we hear about out of Japan are the wacky, off-the-wall inventions and inventors. But in fact, Japan is a well-respected member of the scientific community that makes serious contributions to many fields. [...]
A while back I wrote a post detailing the Top 10 Strange Japanese Films You Need to Watch and one movie that came up in the comments a lot was Big Man Japan. Unfortunately at the time of writing that post I had not seen the film even though I was very interested in it [...]
We’re back from our winter break and at the start of 2012. Not only does this mean that I have to get used to writin 2012 instead of 2011, but it also means that our weekly news roundup is back! Here are some of the stories that caught our eyes during this past week: 16-year [...]
Last year, I wrote about a plan by the Japanese government to give away 10,000 free airplane tickets to Japan to boost its slumping tourism industry. Unfortunately last week, the Japan Tourism Agency announced that the “Fly To Japan” project had failed to get funding in the Japanese government’s budget While I’m really disappointed that [...]
Well 2012 is here so you might be asking yourself “what new J-drama should I kick the year off with?” Luckily for you I’ve just recently found one that I really like and have no qualms about recommending to everyone and anyone. And that drama is Watashi ga Renai Dekinai Riyuu (私が恋愛できない理由 ((The Reason I [...]
Japanese vending machines are a magical thing. Not only are there more vending machine per person in Japan than anywhere else in the world (1 vending machine for every 23 Japanese people), but they’re also incredibly inexpensive and convenient. For a mere １５０円, you can have any Japanese soda, milk tea, iced coffee, or other [...]
