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 [...]

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 [...]

What’s the connection between Sasaki Nozomi (佐々木希) and Dekotora? Well this is because she appears in the photos that has dekotora. Pretty straight forward right ? Well recently I found these interesting photos of Japan popular model Sasaki Nozomi posing in front of Japanese unique decoration truck, so I decided to post it up and [...]

One important expect in learning Japanese language is to master the Japanese Kanji. Learning Kanji might be a tough and painful process, but once you learnt it, it can become very useful. To learn Kanji effectively, you have to learn to memorize the character and better if you can learn to write it as well. [...]

Yesterday I came across this interesting website, introducing the 51 types of characters that you can find in Japanese. The characters is cute and each of them having very distinctive and unique characteristics. I think it’s a very good site to learn Japanese culture through the characters. Characters are available as postcards as well as [...]