Japanese Learning Apps: Trying Human Japanese As has been pointed out here before: People are different and they learn languages differently.…
Weekly Japanese Idiom: “Fugenjikko” — Talk is Cheap A while back we learned about jigajisan, which was all about tooting one’s own horn.…
Weekly Japanese Idiom: “Shichiten-hakki” — Never Give Up Sometimes life throws you a curveball and it can knock you down to the ground.…
Weekly Japanese Idiom: “Jigajisan” — Singing One’s Own Praises There’s nothing wrong with being proud of yourself, or something you’ve accomplished. Unless you take…
Weekly Japanese Idiom: “Ichibushiju” — From Start to Finish Sometimes you need to know every single aspect of an incident to get the full…
List of 7: Notorious Assassination Plots in Japan In a new series of listicle articles, we begin by looking at high-profile assassinations and assassination…
4 Traditional Japanese Instruments That Will Make Your Heart Beat These four instruments are not just credited with creating traditional Japanese music, but can also tell…
Japanese Fashion Through the Eras: From Heian to Heisei When thinking of Japanese fashion in 2021, you might imagine Harajuku lolita dresses, Shibuya’s cool…
270th Anniversary of the Birth of Matsudaira Fumai: The Esthetics of Cha no Yu The museum will temporally close from Apr 27. After a lengthy closure for the pandemic,…
Weekly Japanese Idiom: “Fuminfukyu” — Working Day and Night Sleep deprivation is no joke. The long-term effects of not getting enough shut-eye range from…
The JR Tohoku Rail Pass Inspiring Wanderlust at JAPAN RAIL CAFE TOKYO Event JAPAN RAIL CAFE TOKYO in Tokyo Station is a place where travelers' paths intersect. It…
5 Places to Participate in Authentic Japanese Tea Ceremonies in Tokyo Nothing beats the smell, the taste and the feel of a steaming cup of tea…
Pandemic Diaries: Reading Over 1,300 Chapters of Hajime no Ippo As far as pandemic-related stay-at-home hobbies go, I wasn’t able to get on the sourdough…
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Emperor Naruhito Emperor Naruhito turns 61 today and to mark the occasion we thought we’d take a…
How to Celebrate Setsubun: All You Need to Know About Japan’s Bean Throwing, Demons and Fortune Tradition If you’ve been curiously eyeing the displays of dried beans in the convenience store, and wondering…
