This year has been a good year for spy movies; both the American The Bourne Legacy and the British Skyfall were released in 2012 to generally good reviews and earned oodles and oodles of cash. But these movies got me … [Read more...]
For some reason, imitating other languages really intrigues me. There's just something about being able to mimic a language you don't actually know while still getting enough right to make other people understand what … [Read more...]
There's no Japanese food I'm more obsessed with than ramen. It's cheap, delicious, and has enough variations to keep me interested and coming back for more. Even though ramen is originally from China and was once called … [Read more...]
Hat tip to the always on top of things Reddit. Looks like a non-Japanese (aka USA, for now) Amazon Kindle store now stocks books in the Japanese language. This opens up some huge opportunities for study, though it does … [Read more...]
The first geisha were men. No they weren't cross-dressers, and no they weren't gigolos either. The taikomochi (also known as houkan), were the original geisha of Japan and they were manly man men. I bet you didn't know … [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...]