Japanese Names and Honorifics in Anime
One of the main advantages of watching anime in Japanese with subtitles is that even if you don’t understand Japanese you can pick up a lot of information that will… Read more »
Category: Japanese Culture
The Economist on High-Tech Toilets
Maybe The Economist is preparing a special report on Japan for their next issue. That might be why they have just posted on their web site a strangely unfocused column… Read more »
Daughter of Twenty Insults
Chinese President Hu Jintao has just completed a rare state visit to Japan, supposedly establishing an “everlasting warm spring” in the relationship between the two countries. Meanwhile the writers of… Read more »
Civilization is Doomed
Raymond Chen discusses Hello Kitty Air, an airline devoted to Hello Kitty, with Hello Kitty images plastered over everything including the barf bags. (Actually I’m not sure that this should… Read more »
Japanese to launch paper plane from ISS
Filed under Useless but Very Cool: Get some aeronautical engineers and origami experts together and design a paper airplane that can be launched from the International Space Station, reenter the… Read more »
Japan Vacation: Conclusion
That’s the end. I’ve gone through all my photos and posted everything that looked reasonably interesting. If you are considering a trip to Japan I strongly recommend that you go… Read more »
Kyoto: Miscellaneous Photos
Here are some photos that I think are interesting, but which don’t seem to fit anywhere else.
Kyoto: Teramachi and Shin-kyogoku
Kyoto is much smaller than Tokyo, but it does have its own version of shopping districts. Teramachi and Shin-kyogoku are two parallel covered streets which seem to go on forever,… Read more »
Kyoto City Budo Center
I stumbled on this place by accident: a complex of buildings devoted to the practice of martial arts. It is located just around the corner from the Heian Shrine.
Kyoto: Heian Shrine
The Heian Shrine is dedicated to two emperors: Kammu, who founded the city of Kyoto in 794, and Koumei, the last emperor to spend his life in the city. It… Read more »