Review: Kanji Solitaire for iOS

Review: Kanji Solitaire for iOS

Posted by in Language on 05. May, 2013 | 1 Comment

Hello everyone! I have been playing with @tuzen’s Kanji Solitaire App for iOS over the past week. This app is a great idea, and a much needed fresh approach to kanji study. There are lots of kanji Apps out there, but none like this. Kanji Solitaire App is a kanji puzzle game where you slide [...]

Evangellion makes Suizenji Kiyoko popular to a new audience

Evangellion makes Suizenji Kiyoko popular to a new audience

Posted by in Language, Music on 06. Jan, 2013 | 1 Comment

Thanks to geeking out on Evangellion I recently stumbled upon this classic Japanese song called 365-step March. This song is appears in EVANGELION:2.0 YOU CAN (NOT) ADVANCE when the new character Mari is fighting an Angel near the beginning of the movie. Being the crazy character that she is, Mari sings this song as she [...]

Shared my Japanese Anki Deck

Shared my Japanese Anki Deck

Posted by in Language on 21. Oct, 2012 | 2 Comments

I just shared my Japanese Anki Deck! It’s very personal. Basically when I see something I don’t know, I write it down, and then some day I stuff it into Anki. I have been using Anki for years, so this deck is monsterous. It has like 700+ cards and they are of no particular difficulty [...]

Japanese Tenugui in Tokyo

Japanese Tenugui in Tokyo

Posted by in Art, Culture, Tokyo, Travel on 05. Oct, 2012 | 1 Comment

One of the stops on my trip to Tokyo with @GuideYu a few months ago was to a Tenugui shop in Harajuku called Kamawanu. Tenugui are a traditional Japanese multipurpose cloth. To name just a few of the many uses for tenugui, back in the Edo period people would use tenugui as small towels, or [...]

Excellent Hamburg and Steak in Osaka

Excellent Hamburg and Steak in Osaka

Posted by in Food, Osaka on 01. Sep, 2012 | Comments Off

Had some delicous steak in the Kitashinchi area of Osaka a while ago after I saw it introduced on a Japanese TV show. If you’re looking for an awesome lunch in Osaka check it out. You can walk to Kitashichi from Umeda station (closest to Nishi-Umeda) in about 15 or 20 minutes, but there is [...]

Burning Characters into the Mountains – Daimonji

Burning Characters into the Mountains – Daimonji

Posted by in Culture, Kyoto, Travel on 17. Aug, 2012 | Comments Off

I had the opportunity to witness Daimonji yesterday with some friends. We all met on a friend’s balcony in Sanjyo. Pretty spectacular view! The wikipedia entry on Daimonji, officially called gozan no okuribito, does a better job of explaning the event than I could ever attempt. So read it. At the most basic level daimonji [...]

Furusato – Traditional Japanese Children’s Song

Furusato – Traditional Japanese Children’s Song

Posted by in Culture, History, Music on 07. Aug, 2012 | 1 Comment

Some of my friends gave us a gift to congratulate us on our new baby! It plays music! Watch the video below to hear the song. It actually plays much longer but I just gave it a little tug to make the video. This is a traditional Japanese song for 6th grade elementary school kids [...]

Things to do in Tokyo: Kagurazaka

Things to do in Tokyo: Kagurazaka

Posted by in Culture, Food, Tokyo, Travel on 02. Aug, 2012 | Comments Off

I had the opportunity to roam around Tokyo with Yuko (@guideyu and @guideyu_) from Guide-Yu.jp! Even though I lived in the Yokohama/Tokyo area for more than a few years, I learned a lot during our day-long tour and saw a lot of neat areas of Tokyo that I had maybe passed through but never really [...]

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