Nothing nightmare inducing about this.

Aw, I didn’t ruin your post-beauty-queen-sex-scandal spirits, did I?
If this product has convinced you that you need an ultrasonic ion brush, you can buy it here, but I think the sound will melt your brains.
I could go on about the infamous dentata of the Japanese archipelago, but I am sure the [...]

Fumiko’s Confession is an adorable and exciting short film. What is really remarkable about it is that it was animated by just one person, who is bound to be very successful in the future. You can see more from the creator here.

In the short, Fumiko asks a boy to date her, but he refuses, wanting [...]

Japanese blogs are abuzz with the funny search suggestions Google gives if you type in the character for husband or wife and press space. The what was different, and what was the same made for humor, but I hope these results aren’t a sign of serous problems in Japanese homes. Let’s break them down (the [...]

There is an erotic video game named 幼いなじみは大統領 (My childhood friend is the president) in which aliens brainwash the world into thinking that the world’s leaders are beautiful girls. I know, right, why are they wasting such brilliant ideas on ero-games? But anyways, someone has taken the original opening theme and remade it into a [...]

Nintendo announced today that it will release a new version of the DS about a month from now on the 21st of November. Features of the device will include:
A bigger touch screen
A bigger pen to match (the old one is still included)
New internal software, including a Japanese-only version of the Rakubiki
Dictionary (a useful title [...]

Life After the BOE is a humorous webcomic about the experiences almost all ALTs endure when they come to Japan. Chagrin pays the bills, and anybody that has ever worked in a Japanese school will be able to identify with the comic, but even the layman will find these pretty funny.

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This episode reminded me of [...]

It’s beautiful, and you can’t deny that.

This surreal sequence brought to you by the anime Sora no Otoshimono (That Which Fell from the Heavens).
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While it is not a best seller, especially by manga standards, the manga version of Hitler’s most infamous writing, わが闘争 (waga tōsō, Mein Kampf) is selling pretty well–45,000 have been sold so far. It is the best selling manga in the publishing company’s “read it via manga” series, which includes an adaptation of Marx’s Das [...]

The anime Lucky Star made the Washimiya shrine, which appears in the opening credits, famous among fans. There was also a mikoshi (a portable shrine that is carried around during festivals) made with the characters.
This year, on September 6th, the shrine will be back at the festival in 鷲宮町 (washimiyamachi) in Saitama. They are pimping [...]

Ken Tanaka recently came back to the motherland for a visit, and he discovered the joys of Tokyo Teleportation.

Ken also got a YouTube gathering going while he was here. I attended and won a YouTube shirt. See if you can spot me in this vid; I’m the one that looks like he is recovering from [...]

How do you study kanji? I’ve followed Eve Kushner’s posts on Japanesepod101, where she blogs about how wonderful kanji are, for a while now. So when her new book Crazy for Kanji came out, I had to get my hands on it.
If you have seen her posts, you will see a lot of familiar writing [...]

Brian Hedge submitted a letter to The Japan Times Online that briefly details the purported tribulations of his elderly associate, an elderly male American tourist that got a surprise when he went into a police box to ask some directions. Brian claims that the following happened:

On July 2 in Shinjuku, a 74-year-old American tourist walked [...]