I really like Japan – the food, the urban environment, technologies, conveniency, the designs… everything is designed and created to cater for all needs. In my country here, there are a lot of things are influenced or derived from Japan, but there is top three priority that I really wish to have: Hitokara, Japanese flip [...]

Normally I will surf Japanese sites to get information. But I have a problem here: those sites contains a lot of words that I can’t figure it out what it means (thanks to my low level of Japanese language knowledge). But with the help of Polarcloud’s Rikaichan, I am now able to learn new words [...]

It’s been a while a movie that can make me become so excited. Last week, I watched a Japan 2007 hit movie called “Crows ZERO“. Crows ZERO is a film based on the comic book Crows by Hiroshi Takahashi, and was directed by Takashi Miike. The story involves around a bunch of bad students in [...]

Last Saturday, the long awaited annual Bon Odori festival was finally arrived! I’m very excited about this event because it was fun! Bon Odori in Malaysia was celebrated in less associated with Buddhism and more with Japanese culture. This year’s edition was a little different because I was one of the volunteer staff there to [...]

Japan is a country that has a very rich and unique styles in designs and culture that balance between usability and aesthetic, modern and traditional. I really like the traditional Japanese styles of designs, patterns, and colors which implemented into modern living lifestyle. Well, web design is no exceptions too. Recently, i came across this [...]

As you guys might know that I’m a Japan freak. I just love Japan and would like to travel there some where in future. Recently, Ruben Frosali are so kind to share his point of view of Japan with his photo blog ReallyJapan. His photos are creative and very different from other Japan photos I [...]

First of all, sorry for the lack of updates on this site because I’m quite sick for these few days and still haven’t fully recover yet. Well, last few days I stumbled upon on this article about “Learn 35+ Languages for Free in Itunes” and discover that actually I can also learn Japanese language for [...]

In Japan, there are a series of holidays from late April to early May which they call it as “Golden Week”. During Golden Week, many companies are closing to let their employees to have a long nice rest and many Japanese people are going off for long vacation. So during this period of time, leisure-based [...]

Spring is just around the corner. When thinking of spring season, many people will thinking of the warm and beautiful cherry blossom or sakura. Around the end of March to beginning of April is the best time to view the blossoming sakura or o-hanami in Tokyo and Kyoto area. Sakura is a very beautiful flower [...]

I always had a question when checking a drama’s rating, why they split it into two categories which is Kanto region and Kansai region? I also came across these two terms when watching dramas where it sounds like there is big difference between them. What is Kanto and Kansai and what is their history? I [...]