World Order: Japanese Street Performance Group
Posted by harvey in Media on 17. Aug, 2011 | 3 Comments
I don’t think I can add much to these videos. Just watch. Also check out World Order official website. WORLD ORDER are… 須藤元気（GENKI SUDO） 野口 量（RYO NOGUCHI） 崎山 清之（KIYOYUKI SAKIYAMA） 内山隼人（HAYATO UCHIYAMA） 森澤 祐介（YUSUKE MORISAWA） 高橋 昭博（AKIHIRO TAKAHASHI） 落合 将人（MASATO OCHIAI） Actually… there is one thing I can add. Did you know that the leader of this [...]
Swearing in Japanese
Posted by harvey in Culture, Language on 13. Aug, 2011 | 7 Comments
Come on, admit it. The first time you started learning Japanese you wanted to learn all the swear words. There’s no shame in that, I did too. But now that you know a few, and you’re a bit more geek, you want to know what they really mean and where they came from, right!? Maybe you [...]
Getting your GO on
Posted by harvey in Culture, Gadgets on 10. Aug, 2011 | Comments Off
Making the おやじ game look good! So I recently started watching the ひかるの碁 (hikaru no go) anime, and as what I assume is normal for most people who do the same, I now find myself wanting to learn how to play Go. If you haven’t watched Hikaru no Go I would recommend checking it out. [...]
Intensive Japanese at OSU – Interview with @curryisyummy
Posted by harvey in Culture, Language on 04. Aug, 2011 | 1 Comment
Time for another interview with a fellow Japan Head! This time we talk to David (@curryisyummy) who will tell us about the intensive summer Japanese program that he is doing in Ohio at the moment. He finishes the program on August 19th, so he’s really right in the thick of it. If you still have [...]
The Search for Ramen in Shanghai
Posted by harvey in Food, Travel on 19. Jul, 2011 | 2 Comments
If you like Japanese ramen, then you’ll appreciate how difficult it is to find good Japanese ramen outside of Japan. Well, now I’m in Shanghai, and there are 50,000 Japanese living here long term. There are more than 100,000 if you include those Japanese that are frequently in and out on short business trips. So, [...]
Unbelievable! Old School Japanese Slang
Posted by harvey in Culture, Humor, Language on 16. Jul, 2011 | 5 Comments
Today I attended a wine tasting party and there happened to be tons of old-school Japan hands there along with their respective Japanese wives. It was a little awkward being the youngest dude in the room by an entire generation, but it was cool to hear their stories. One man had lived in Japan in [...]
Air-conditioned Clothing
Posted by harvey in Crazy Consumers, Culture, Gadgets on 03. Jul, 2011 | Comments Off
This 空調服 company has created a line of products that use a low amount of energy to keep us cool in the humid summer months. How do they do it? To put it simply, the clothes and other products incorporate a battery-powered fan. What? What’s that you say? You ask why their website URL is [...]
Love for Miyagi Japan
Posted by harvey in Society on 14. May, 2011 | 3 Comments
One of my old friends personally knows people who lost everything in Miyagi, so she was prompted to start up this Love for Miyagi Japan fundraising project to try and help them out. This is a small project that is hoping to help out a small number of people, but with your help it could [...]
