To enjoy your start to 2020 to the fullest, read on to learn more about how Japanese people celebrate o-shogatsu in style. 1.Indulge in osechi ryori (おせち料理) Image from https://www.justonecookbook.com/osechi-ryori-japanese-new-year-food/ Osechi Ryori (お節料理) is the […]
Carlos Ghosn, Nissan’s ex-chairman, says he has not fled justice but “escaped injustice and political persecution”. Carlos Ghosn, the auto industry mogul who pulled off his escape from Japan, has revived global criticism of Japan’s […]
Subtle Asian Traits, a Facebook group dedicated to Asians living in the West, becomes a phenomenon taking over the internet. This group created by 9 high-school Chinese Australian seniors from Melbourne, currently comprises over 1.6 […]
Talented Dean Fujioka is multi-lingual. He speaks English, Japanese, Cantonese, Mandarin and Indonesian fluently. Wait, if speaking sexy counts as a language, then he is basically fluent in six languages. View this post on Instagram […]
Nomikai is a drinking party special to Japanese culture that happens in almost every work place in the country. Nomikai are hosted in restaurants or izakaya, usually having everyone seated at one large table. Employee […]
Japanese “city pop” is a loosely defined subset of optimistic pop music that originated in Japan in the late 1970s, at the peak of their post-war economic miracle. The genre was originally termed as an […]
Byung-Chul Han is a handsome South Korean-born German philosopher, cultural theorist and professor at the Berlin University of the Arts. #ByungChulHan: “Le #désir se nourrit d’impossible” @philomag #lecture pic.twitter.com/9uozfouF2P — Nadia BenAmara (@benamara_n) April 12, 2015 His […]
This trending Reddit thread explains why is Ash Ketchum, the main character from the Pokémon series. I believe this theory is the most logical one out there. It is not uncommon that manga series have […]
It is the most wonderful time of the year! Maybe after final exams it will be the most wonderful time of the year. Anyways, this is time when people are sending out secret santa whishlilst […]
A Japanese journalist Shiori Ito, whose rape accusations against a high-profile TV journalist turned her into a symbol of #MeToo movement in Japan, has been awarded 3.3m yen ($30,000) in damages. The Tokyo district court […]
