As you might know, the Tofugu team just came back from a month-long trip to Japan. It'd been a while since any of us had been to Japan but for me, it had been 13 years. In that time, I had grown a lot and also forgotten … [Read more...]
At one point in our recent trip collecting film for TofuguTV, we went up to Yoichi, Hokkaido to visit the Nikka Whiskey Brewery. In our naivety, we bought whiskey thinking we could send it back. We quickly found out that … [Read more...]
A little while ago I wrote about my favorite J-drama actors and actresses. While they're great and all, they don't really get a lot of screen time overseas and while some of them star in movies, they still don't have much … [Read more...]
One of my favorite parts about watching Japanese television programs is getting to see what their commercials look like. For whatever reason, I'm always fascinated by how other countrys' commercials differ from those seen … [Read more...]
Many people believe that there is a distinct possibility that Japan will one day sink into the ocean. Japan is an island nation, and there is scientific proof that continents much larger than Japan have indeed sunk into … [Read more...]
There's a little-known phenomenon in history called “dancing mania,” and it's pretty much exactly what it sounds like: huge groups of people start dancing for no real reason until they're completely exhausted. It's a rare, … [Read more...]