I really enjoy Japanese dramas. As far as Japanese entertainment media goes, dramas are right up there with anime for me. When I was first getting into Japanese stuff, I was all about the anime until one day I realized … [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...]
A couple of months ago, I saw a picture on Tumblr or FFFFOUND or one of those sites where people post pictures without knowing where they come from. I saw some really eye-catching, colorful pictures that looked, at least … [Read more...]
All this week, a story has been pretty consistently making the rounds on Japan sites: from RocketNews24 to JapanToday to Japanator, a bunch of different sites have been really interested in the opening of a new … [Read more...]
The word tebori (手彫り), literally “hand carving” describes the technique of tattooing by hand which first arose during the Edo period. There are still tattoo artists (彫師, horishi) that practice tebori today, but … [Read more...]
In some parts of the world, language seems as tightly regulated as medicine -- the government decides which words are and aren't allowed. As I mentioned in an earlier post, in Israel there is Academy of the Hebrew Language … [Read more...]