Ah, spring. Flowers, sunshine, and a new season of anime. Because the best thing about warmer weather is sitting indoors watching anime with the windows open, amirite? Well, Winter 2013′s anime season was decent, but Spring 2013′s anime season might end up beating it out. There’s actually one show this time that I am more [...]
Alcohol in general is very, very easy to get in Japan. You can buy sake in convenience stores, chuhai out of vending machines, and beer practically anywhere you look. But one liquor in particular has grown in sophistication and popularity both in Japan and abroad: whisky. You can find some of the old reliable brands [...]
I love chuhai. If I had to choose a favorite Japanese beverage genre, it would most definitely be chuhai. It’s cheaper and tastier than beer, comes in a multitude of flavors, and is readily available almost everywhere. Well, in Japan, anyway. Sadly for me and foreigners everywhere, chuhai, at least in America, is not so [...]
With the new year comes yet another new anime season. Last season (Fall 2012) boasted a pretty solid lineup, but how will Winter 2013 fare? I watched the best looking ones I could find, and the results might surprise you. Will this be another home run of an anime season, or will this winter be [...]
When it comes to Japanese food, we usually think about fancy or traditional food; cuisine that is steeped in centuries of tradition and requires years of training in order to make it correctly. And then there’s Japanese junk food. You may think that junk food is junk food, no matter where it’s made and sold, [...]
Before I moved to Japan, I imagined carbonated lakes, rivers running thick with bubbling sugar, a snack-food nation governed by Willy Wonka-san. Japan really is a refreshment paradise, and Iām excited to taste whatever drinks the mad scientists are brewing up every few months. There was the legendary Cucumber Pepsi, and a soda that tasted [...]
It’s hot. Maybe it’s not that hot in your area, but in central Ohio at least, it’s pushing 90 degrees. Not exactly comfortable. But we all know that Japan is more than happy to come up with interesting solutions and inventions for everyday issues such as this. So what did Japan come up with for [...]
