A couple of week ago, I sent out a newsletter that featured art deco prints from Japan in the early 20th century. I was blown away by these beautiful prints, how they so distinctly represented the art from that era. How lucky then, that I stumbled upon another cache of early 20th century art just [...]
A while ago, Facebook added the ability to translate statuses and comments in foreign languages. Now, this definitely seems like a great idea in theory — you can make friends with people from all around the world and even if you don’t speak the same language as them, you’ll still be able to know what [...]
A couple of months ago, I saw a picture on Tumblr or FFFFOUND or one of those sites where people post pictures without knowing where they come from. I saw some really eye-catching, colorful pictures that looked, at least to me, very Japanese. After looking into it a bit, I found out that these pictures [...]
During World War II, everything from aircraft to small arms evolved and changed. Some of these new discoveries were dangerously effective, such as the atomic bomb, whereas others were not so much, such as the Japanese fire balloons. Actually, the Japanese had a large number of secret weapons and projects during the war that either [...]
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 what it is with Japan and UFO sightings? Let’s find out. Utsuro Bune Hashi [...]
Any keen fisher(wo)men among our readers? Nowadays just about every phone is also a camera and a camcorder, so keeping a record of your latest catch is a trivial matter – and of course you’d want to, if only to avoid having to insist “I swear it was this big!” to disbelieving friends and family. [...]
A lot of art out there goes over my head. It’s my fault, really — I’m not very educated in art and don’t usually understand the context. But some art I look at and just get. Not because I understand its place in art history or anything, but because it’s just so completely outrageous that [...]
