– What’s B-LABO? Who’s Bungu-o? –     The king of stationery, Masayuki Takabatake, obtained this mysterious looking box at an antique fair. I see some kanji letters meaning stone, poison,…

Kanji are very interesting characters. Some kanji look like pictorial symbols, and some others look really complicated. When you break a kanji character apart, you will see that the complicated…

    How do they sound if the names of Tokyo 23 wards are translated in English? After reading “Names of Japan’s Prefectures Are Cool in English,” I wondered so….

These words are the tattoos written in Japanese shown in the YouTube video below. It is interesting to see tattoos written in Japanese because not so many Japanese care to…

This website I am going to introduce today provides a wonderful creative tool! You can play with hiragana and kanji characters to create art piece.     You can play…

    In the Japanese largest internet forum, 2channel, there was an interesting thread where they translated the names of Japan’s 47 prefectures into English. For example, Tokyo is written…

  I downloaded a cute puzzle game iPhone app called Mizu Man Lite (free!). Try this app and you will enjoy beautiful Japanese confections and lovely sound effects.    …

  In a past post, I introduced “phonetikana” which are katakana with the pronunciations on them. Today, I want to show you another unique Japanese character graphics by a different…

    This unique iPhone application called KanjiStretch transforms any alphabetical name into Kanji characters. The Kanji results are phonetic characters, so you can arrange the applicable Kanjis as you…

Animal Shogi posted by (C)北ハム広報係   Animal Shogi (“dobutsu shogi” in Japanese) is a simplified version of Shogi.