Recently I stumbled upon this cool blog yanajun.com which contains the portrait illustrations of popular Japanese artists who acted in the drama series. It already has quite a big collection of illustration and the portraits looks really good and very close to the real person! The owner of this blog, who has the same name [...]

Sometimes the good and useful websites are not available in English or any language that we know, for example Japanese language. It could be very frustrating if you think that the information could be useful but you can’t even understand the article. So, translation tools comes in handy in this kind of situation. Here I [...]

According to Chinese Zodiac, 2008 is the year of Mouse (or Rat). Well when relating mouse or rat to popular culture, people might think of cartoon character Mickey Mouse, or last year animation movie Ratatouille or even classic cartoon Tom and Jerry for example. Now please add another member to the list, introducing the unique [...]

There is three kind of blogs that will impress me: blog that has nice contents, nice blog theme design and the third one is a dedicated blogger that update his or her blog regularly for a long time. Obviously Shoko Nakagawa’s blog falls under the third category, because it is very impressive that on how [...]

Aya Kato is a young female artists from Japan that has a great talents and skills in creating one of the most stunning and original artworks I have seen so far. Born in 1982, she studied painting by self-study and graphic design at the Aichi University of Education. She graduated in 2004 and started work [...]

It’s been a great year for all the J-pop enjoyment, big thanks to the convenience of the web technology that let me easily access to the music that is never happened before. Because of this, I get to know more of the diversity of Japanese music industry, although I think that I’m just touching 5% [...]

Christmas is around the corner, and many people started to plan out their best Christmas celebration, and to celebrate with who. So, Oricon had conducted a survey targeting to audience from aged 10s to 20s on “Whom are you going to spend Christmas with?”. From the survey result, 25.2% of aged 20s male answered “lover”, [...]

It is going to be a lonely Christmas celebration for me T.T, it has been like this for 22 years of my whole life. Fortunately I still have my best companion always by my side, and “she” is Japanese Pop music. During the Christmas celebration month, many Japan artists releasing songs and singles related to [...]

There is so much nice web design galleries out there like CSS Beauty, The Best Designs, Best Web Gallery and many more for web designers everyday design inspiration. They showcases the great web design examples from all around the world which displays innovative web surfing experience and design aesthetics. But recently I ask myself, is [...]

When the first time I watch animation “tenspace” by WOW, it was truely amazing! By mixing numbers ranging from 0 – 10 with ikebana, a Japanese art of flower arrangement to create out this masterpiece. The ikebana mainly illustrated by ink, giving a traditional ink and wash painting style, and sitting on the characters. Each [...]