Spring is here, and with a new season comes lots of new anime for all of us to feast our eyes upon. I mean, we can't just stare at cherry blossoms forever - we have to do something else with our spring days eventually. … [Read more...]
[threecol_two]For Japanese Linguist, A Long And Lonely Schlep: A Japanese linguist has finished his masterwork: the first-ever Japanese-Yiddish dictionary. Practical? Almost certainly not. At $700 (oy vey!) and catering to … [Read more...]
You might have heard of Red Bull's Flugtag, an event that the energy drink company throws once a year. It invites contestants from all over the world to build their own, human-powered flying machines and launch them into … [Read more...]
If you've been following Tofugu the last year, we've run a fair amount of posts about AKB48, Japan's hottest music group. They're a group of dozens of young, Japanese girls who have had hits on the Japanese charts for … [Read more...]
In Japanese and Asian cultures, there are many physical traits that are considered to be attractive. A lot of the attractive traits are universally true across most cultures, but there are a few that are more specific to … [Read more...]
To me, one of the more interesting things about learning Japanese is when people say that they start to dream or think in Japanese. That's amazing because not only does it mean that those people are completely engrossed … [Read more...]