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Japan News in Review 3: Dinosaurs, McDonalds, and Old Ladies

12. August 2008

If you’ve been around a while, you’ll notice that the word “week” is missing from “Japan News week in review.” If you’ve been around a while, you’ll also know that these never come out once a week. So, in order to put a little less pressure on writing these too often (and thus becoming a [...]

Win some Tasty Japanese Candy: Follow us on Twitter!

5. August 2008

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I’ve been using Twitter more and more, and I thought I’d invite all of you to follow us! I wrote about Twitter before, and how it can be used to improve your Japanese, but it also has many more “normal” uses as well. Kind of like what we’re doing over on Twitter. Over on the Tofugu [...]

Takeru Kobayashi Loses Hot Dog Eating Contest again. Shouldn’t go swimming for at least 30 minutes

4. July 2008

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Maybe it’s time he commits seppuku, though, I don’t know if I’d want to see a stomach full of hot dogs get disemboweled. It’s been a year since the last “Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest” at Coney Island, when reigning king (at the time) of eating food “really really fast” lost his title, and his [...]

Tofugu’s ThankYou Postcard Contest Winners…Everybody wins!

26. June 2008

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I was dreading having to choose my “favorite” postcard shot from the ThankYou Postcard contest, but, somewhat luckily, we only got four submissions. Now, originally we said that only three could win, but since we got four, and since I’ve got a lot of extra postcards, I thought it would be nice to extend that [...]

Godzilla Desktops for Your Computer

18. June 2008

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Ack, it’s been a while since last post. I’m working on a really good article (I think), but in the meantime, I thought I’d show you a sample of something you might see in our “free store,” which will come out along side our “normal store” hopefully in the next couple of weeks. We’ll see [...]

Got Your Tofugu Thank You Card Yet? Win a Set of Your Own!

11. June 2008

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So as many of you know, I sent out the thank you cards in response to all of you helping me out with my thesis. Once again, Thank you very much for your help, it turned out pretty awesome! Still, I have a bunch of postcards left over, and I want to give some of [...]

Tofugu’s in a book!

10. June 2008

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So, the other day, I got a book in the mail. It was for an interview I had done several months back about my two v/blogs, Koichiben and Tofugu. Turns out, this interview takes up two pages of Frederick Levy’s new book: 15 Minutes of Fame, Becoming a Star in the YouTube Revolution. The book has [...]

Happy Birthday, Tofugu!

5. June 2008

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That’s right, little guy, you’re 1 year old! Wow, has it already been a year? I mean, this is only a blip in the radar compared to Buddha’s birthday, but I think it’s big news nonetheless! Here, we made you all a birthday video, check it out after the jump!

Nara Actually gets a new Mascot, kinda-sorta

2. June 2008

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Remember back in the day when Nara’s new mascot was supposed to be the creepy baby deer man (sounds similar to manbearpig, yeah?) shown crossed out above? Well, it seems as though the public outcry was strong enough, and Nara will be getting a much more attractive mascot called “Manto-Kun.” Definitely an improvement, though, you [...]

My Japanese Video Final from Highschool. Let the Embarrassment Begin.

27. May 2008

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The other day I came across a copy of the video I made (with a few other folks) for my Japanese final at the end of high school. I’m probably wrong, but I feel like video finals in Japanese high school classes are very common. It’s something that links us all together somehow. Our video was [...]