Today we're going to explore how kimono pockets evolved into the popular phone charms that the Japanese people seem to be so fond of. I know, seems like a pretty unlikely progression, right? Kimono pockets to phone charms? … [Read more...]
This year has been a good year for spy movies; both the American The Bourne Legacy and the British Skyfall were released in 2012 to generally good reviews and earned oodles and oodles of cash. But these movies got me … [Read more...]
There's no Japanese food I'm more obsessed with than ramen. It's cheap, delicious, and has enough variations to keep me interested and coming back for more. Even though ramen is originally from China and was once called … [Read more...]
The first geisha were men. No they weren't cross-dressers, and no they weren't gigolos either. The taikomochi (also known as houkan), were the original geisha of Japan and they were manly man men. I bet you didn't know … [Read more...]
Awaji Island is an interesting place in Japan; it's a small island that sits between Honshu and Shikoku and is more famous than an island that small really should be. People around Japan know about Awaji's famous naruto … [Read more...]
Even though I live in America, a country with a questionable (to say the least) justice system, the Japanese justice system sometimes seems much more harsh (just take a look at Japanese drugs laws). But the more I learn … [Read more...]