Jazz hands! Traditional theater has always been a huge part of Japanese culture. Noh, kabuki, and bunraku theater have been around in Japan for literally hundreds of years, but Japan has also been quick to adapt … [Read more...]
No, that’s not a stuffed animal staring you in the face. That's Shunsuke, a 9 year old pomeranian from Japan. Shunsuke is sweeping the internet with boatloads of cute and he simply cannot be contained. He even published … [Read more...]
In recent times, Japan has been in a state where prime ministers just go in one door and out the other. If you got our last newsletter, you'd know that there have been 5 new Japanese prime ministers in the last four years … [Read more...]
Tofugu is built on WordPress, so we were excited when WordPress Japan recently announced its new mascot, Wapuu. While it's not quite as cool as the Tofugu fugu (what is?), Wapuu is still pretty darn cute. But if there's … [Read more...]
I've never been into the whole castle thing myself (I'm more into Islands full of cats, and things like that), but I know there are a lot of castle buffs out there (as well as a lot of people who don't know they're castle … [Read more...]
Japan has never failed to bring the world terrifyingly lifelike humanoid robots. Sometimes I feel like Japan is situated right in the middle of the Uncanny Valley. But sometimes these freakish inventions can actually do … [Read more...]