Many words can be found in English that have Japanese origins, such as tsunami, otaku, sake and so on. Most of these borrowed words are used correctly, but here…

  Today, I would like to introduce some videos about Japanese dialects, basing on an article on difficult Japanese dialect to speak for people live in Tokyo. This may sound…

I found a useful website that provides a variety of games involving Japanese culture. Although they are designed for children, anyone who is leaning Japanese culture might find it interesting…

  On the internet, there are many characters newly created using AA (ASCII Art), and these are becoming more and more complicated. Here are some recent “keyboard art” trends in Japan…

Kaomoji (emoticon) lines are fun to use for emails, texts and internet forums. The lines consist of punctuation marks, alphabets, and special characters and symbols.   *(#^o^#)*.*.*(^_^)*.*.*(^ 3 ^)*.*.*(=_=)*.*.*(x_x) *.*.*(>o<)*.*.*(T_T)*…

A little early season’s greetings with the human alphabet (^^;   Did you enjoy last time’s post? Maybe you couldn’t wait for the new post (^^)! Now she is trying…

Guess what this woman is doing?   Actually, she is trying to shape all twenty-six letters of the alphabet (capital letters) using her own body. Don’t ask me why (^^;…

  Do you learn Japanese? Or do you want to learn Japanese? I found this blog post that might be helpful to learn Japanese words. Let me share it with…

      “Henohenomoheji” is a face drawn with seven hiragana characters, he, no, he, no, mo, he, and ji. It is a popular doodle face and also typical face…

Recent years, Japanese pop culture like manga and anime has been popular in overseas countries. According to Japan National Tourism Organization, the number of the foreign tourists visited Japan in…

Tokyo has 23 “ku (wards)”. Because Shibuya-ku and Shinjuku-ku are known in the world, you might know them. It seems that many tourists from other countries complain about “they hardly…