Does Your Listening Make Japanese People Uncomfortable? If you don't know about aizuchi, it probably does. | Continue reading
Check out a review of Anki, one of the most popular SRS flashcard apps in the Japanese learning community. | Continue reading
What are your eyes like? Their appearance may control your destiny. This is the Japanese belief known as sanpaku | Continue reading
What does your blood say about you? In Japan, it's believed your personality is determined by your blood. Is this theory scientific? | Continue reading
There's a big story behind those wacky Japanese inventions you see online. Discover their origin (and philosophy). | Continue reading
Ever wonder how samurai fought ninja? How Japanese police arrested ronin? Our list of Japanese weapons from the Edo period reveals every tool of battle. | Continue reading
Starting in the 1950s, Tezuka created and wrote more than 700 manga series containing over 170,000 pages and he also penned over 200,000 pages of anime storyboards and scripts. His impact on anime and manga is impossible to overstate. His influence on the industry was nothing les … | Continue reading
Kancho. The act of putting your fingers together in a pointy position and sticking them up somebody else's butt. Here's the deal, Japanese schoolkids love doing this, especially to English teachers in Japan. | Continue reading
Working in Japan can be great. Unless you're hired into a nightmare company that pushes you to hang yourself. | Continue reading