This article first appeared in a truncated version at on the Komaba Times Website, the blog for the Journalistic Writing class at the University of Tokyo -- Anyone living in Japan can tell you that the words … [Read more...]
TV reflects the obsessions of a culture, so there are interesting differences in the TV shows of different countries. Comparing American and Japanese TV, one subject where there’s a big cultural difference is in shows … [Read more...]
Kekkon Katsudou (結婚活動), most commonly referred to as “konkatsu” (婚活) for short, is perhaps the most dangerous hunts of them all... that hunt of course being “marriage hunting.” The Japanese construct of actively and … [Read more...]
I've been known in the past to say you can't learn Japanese from anime... and that's still quite true. The amount of people out there who watch thousands of hours of (admittedly addicting) anime under the pretense that … [Read more...]
I kid I kid. Of course, there are several people with mustaches in Japan. After writing about the history of mustaches in Japan, we felt like we needed to talk to someone who has a mustache in this day and age. With people … [Read more...]
As a reader of Tofugu, there's a decent chance that you eat or are interested in eating sushi. In fact, the chances of you eating sushi are most likely much higher than the chances that you are eating the type of fish you … [Read more...]