Most Americans are pretty oblivious to most Japanese TV shows, but if there's one thing they know about, it's the game shows. Japanese game shows, with their bizarre, quirky premises have long been the subject of … [Read more...]
It's easy to forget sometimes that Japanese culture can, in some ways, be so different from our own. We're all pretty much the same in the ways that really count, but the small differences still seem kind of weird. Take … [Read more...]
The Senkaku Island dispute has been blowing up again lately and the media is all ablaze with anti-Japanese protests in China. Japanese businesses are being vandalized, Japanese cars destroyed, and all sorts of crazy … [Read more...]
For years, I've thought that most American foods had more or less caught on across the world; after all, if McDonald's and KFC are in nearly every country in the world, what else could there be? Turns out that there's a … [Read more...]
A while ago, Hashi wrote a post about Utsuro Bune: Japan’s First Modern UFO Encounter. Since then, there have been many UFO sightings in Japan, with most of them having a lot in common and appearing in the same areas. So … [Read more...]
US Vice President Joe Biden once said that health care is a “big f’in’ deal,” and I tend to agree. I don't just mean in the US, where Biden was referring to Obamacare, but across the world people … [Read more...]