In Japan's long history, there are lots of instances of foreign culture unexpectedly seeping into Japanese culture. It's why a stapler is called a “Hotchkiss” in Japanese, and why a lot of Japanese choirs have a Croatian … [Read more...]
Lots of people outside of Japan want to get their hands on Japanese music. Whether it's Japanese learners who just want more passive learning materials, or just people who love Japanese music, it’s in high demand across … [Read more...]
Japan uses a lot of loan words from different languages, but you probably already knew that. The nice thing about these words is you can usually tell what they mean. For example, セーター (se-ta-) is "Sweater." They kind of … [Read more...]
A while back, Hashi wrote a post about Japan's Weird, Themed Cafes. While Japan's cafes are admittedly pretty weird, I think that Japan's themed restaurants really take the cake as far as being weird goes. Japan has many … [Read more...]
Every Sunday we gather the week's weird and interesting Japanese news and present it to you in our Sunday News column. It might not always be hard-hitting news, but we hope that it still informs and entertains you. … [Read more...]
The Tokyo marathon is probably the biggest marathon in all of Japan, and quickly becoming one of the largest marathons in the entire world. That's not surprising, considering Tokyo is one of the largest cities in the … [Read more...]