Cherry Blossom Sale In Tokyo! Last chance to 花見！
As eerie as the location sounds, Aoyama Cemetery is far from spooky with hundreds of trees that bloom each spring. The cemetery also contains the graves of several notables including…
The Cherry Blossoms are coming. Time to Go Out On the Town In A Modern Kimono!
The kimono is a wonderful piece of Japanese fashion and tradition that has changed and evolved in recent years in a delightful way. This is a great introduction to the…
Japan Dispatches Ninja Squad To Syria; “Jihadi John, you defile sacred ninja tradition. Watch your shadow. We coming.”
"We cannot abide the cold-blooded murder of a Japanese person but we will never ever forgive the mockery of our Ninja tradition by the ISIS spokesman wearing our most traditional…
Japan Fights ISIS with a barrage of Charlie Hebdo-like parody
Terrorism works because of fear and intimidation. One of their greatest enemies is sarcasm and ridicule. The Islamic State is holding two Japanese citizens for ransom and is most likely…
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What’s really obscene in Japan? It shouldn’t be the vagina.
A vagina shaped boat. A blueprint for printing a vagina on 3D printer you have to download to see. Is it more obscene than these replicas of porn star vaginas…
From 98-Pound Weakling to Black Belt
By Benjamin Boas Mou ikkai! Do it again! Punching someone properly is an incredibly difficult thing to do. It was not enough to simply drive my fist forward and…
Happy New Year 2015! Beware of the Wolves, Don’t be a Sheep, and Take Care of Your Flock :D
May we all: Overcome anger with peace. Overcome evil with good. Overcome greed with generosity. Overcome liars with truth. Happy New Year
Merry X-Mas Eve Panic
A Japanese Christmas tale of young love, confusion, and happy resolution.
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Tokyo Pop: See it, believe it, breathe it. (Especially if you’re human sculpture)
"Tokyo is a place where tradition and new trends exist side by side. There are zones in the city that have specific character and others where everything is possible. From…
Book Review: “The Bad-Mood Marriage” 不機嫌な主婦 なぜ女たちは「本能」を忘れたのか（朝日新書）
By Kaori Shoji As long as time immemorial, being a woman in Japan meant the rawest of deals. The long, long tradition of top-down patriarchy held that women were good…