Recently I stumbled upon this interesting and funny Japanese word play called “駄洒落” (Dajare). According to Wikipedia, Dajare is similar in spirit to an English pun relying on similarities in the pronunciation of words to create a simple joke. Below are some of the interesting examples that I found from various websites. Please have a [...]

Trey Ratcliff, also known as Stuck in Customs, a world famous HDR photographer, was recently visited Japan for travel and photography opportunities. And he posted up a set of Japan photos that he took on his Flickr page and all I had to say is the pictures are stunning!
Wow, I really amazed by the [...]

Here I present you the useful Tokyo Train Map! This map is written in Japanese and feel free to download or print it for your own usage. The map will be very useful for people who wants to travel in Tokyo by train. Look at the complicity of the route, but the train system will [...]

Recently one big news that happened in Japan entertainment industry is the suspicion on public indecency by one of the member of popular music group SMAP, Kusanagi Tsuyoshi. Actually I was shocked when reading the news because his image has been positive, and I really like him. He already made his apology statement the day [...]

Click the picture link above to have a look to the pictures I took when visiting Japan. Well, I was just hanging around Tokyo and the cities around like Shibuya, Shinjuku, Akihabara, Yokohama, Mount Fuji etc. To be honest, a week in Tokyo is so not enough time to explore, but indeed it was a [...]

Yay! My first post after came back from vacation. During the trip to Japan I went to two big art event in Tokyo, one is 101Tokyo at Akiba Square and Art Fair Tokyo at Tokyo International Forum. Both art fairs are astonishing and I’m really impressed about the quality of the art works displayed and [...]

In 2007, I posted a blog post about 4 Japan web design galleries that worth visiting to introduce web design showcase sites that is from Japan which showcases nice Japanese web designs. Since then, I found more Japan web galleries and would like to add them up to the list.
In my opinion, Japanese websites are [...]

Remember this song “Chiisana Koi no Uta (小さな恋の歌)” ? It’s a love song sang by MONGOL800 and it became widely known because of the drama Operation Love. The song was released in year 2001 and actually it also sang by other artists as cover song, and I found six of them.
Although they are singing [...]

Recently I came across this interesting video of photo collages of Japan that was taken by Eric Testroete during his trip to Japan for about three weeks. The photos was presented in a quick way together with the great music which makes it like a stop frame motion. Very inspirational and real. The photos can [...]

Only few days more to the end of year 2008! While feeling exciting to welcome the brand new year, why don’t we take a look at what expressions had been voted the buzzwords of the year 2008 in Japan. Recently U-CAN conducted a yearly “new phrase/trendy words” nominations and voted that “Arafo” and “Guu!” are [...]