It’s safe to say that Japan’s Makankosappo/Hadoukening/Kamehameha photo meme made quite a mark on the English speaking regions of the internets in 2013. With images of people using invisible energy attacks to blast others … [Read more...]
Let's face it: the internet can be a scary place. You never know what's around the corner. One minute you might be innocently feeding your Neopets and the next, well, you're unexpectedly barraged with a mass of … [Read more...]
Japanese technology can be weird sometimes. And I don't mean “weird” like a sex robot or something, I just mean different in unexpected ways. Japanese cell phones, for example, have long suffered from … [Read more...]
The state of the Japanese Internet is very interesting. It's about ten years behind in both how it's used and how it's designed, it doesn't work too well, and like something out of a DC Comics Bizarro World comic, Yahoo … [Read more...]
Japanese text on the web is a lot like politics and sausage - it's a messy process that nobody should ever have to see. But in the time I've been working at Tofugu, I've had to bear witness to some horrible, horrible … [Read more...]
Japanese vending machines are a magical thing. Not only are there more vending machine per person in Japan than anywhere else in the world (1 vending machine for every 23 Japanese people), but they're also incredibly … [Read more...]