Nowadays, free Japanese dictionaries are everywhere; you no longer have to pay an arm and a leg to buy a giant Japanese dictionary, but instead you can just look up things for free with a website, app, or browser … [Read more...]
Certain clichés permeate different films. Parodies like Scary Movie (and the other, awful franchises that followed) couldn't exist if movies didn't draw upon these stereotypes. Japanese samurai films are unquestionably … [Read more...]
The Final Fantasy series is probably my favorite series of games ever. Well, used to be anyway. 2012 marks the 25th anniversary of the Final Fantasy franchise (complete with box set goodies) and they've sure come a long … [Read more...]
Japan owes a lot to China, there’s no doubt about that. Almost all Japanese kanji were adopted from Chinese characters. Even hiragana and katakana are just random modified bits of Chinese characters. … [Read more...]
DJs today get a bad rap. People seem to think that being a DJ nowadays means simply pressing play and letting the music ride. That's not always the case though. A lot of DJs around the world still work hard at their … [Read more...]
Not every celebrity is a movie star or a singer. Sometimes fame comes from more unexpected places. In Issei Sagawa's case, he became famous from eating another person. Yes, you read that right -- Sagawa is a cannibal, … [Read more...]