Category Archives: Culture
The Technology Matsuri
Here are the entries for this December Blog Matsuri. This was a lot of fun and I learned a lot. I definitely think you should check each of them out.
Joshua Zimmerman
Entry: Robot School Girl Horror
Description: This one creeped me out and got me excited, not that way, at the same time. I love robots and [...]
Top 10 Japanese Names
Japan has a lot of family names and it kind of makes it hard to remember names because I haven’t grown up with them. However, it is important to start learning names to better remember names and get along using the language. The Japan Times released an article with the top 100 most common family [...]
Godzilla Fest Schedule
Here is the Schedule for Godzilla Fest. I just wanted to post it up so that others could see it. I am very excited. While I wont be able to participate fully because I am helping man a booth for a Japanese Language club. I am excited that we are having this in Tulsa to [...]
Most of Japan doesn’t have Infrastructure for Cyclists
When I think of transportation in Japan I think Fast and Furious Tokyo Drift and bicycles. I think bicycles because I see pictures all the time when I see pictures of Japan. So to me it is amazing that they don’t have an infrastructure for cyclists when my area spends millions of dollars on it [...]
Honda U3-X or The Ultimate in Unicycle Technology
Not much of a unicyclist, but this is really cool. Would be very interesting to see this mass produced, though I don’t actually think it would be to very viable as even in the video demonstration it is a bit odd to use and not very predictable without a good amount of practice.
What seems [...]
74 Year Old Japanese Man Wins Bodybuilding Competition
And you thought all old people sat in wheelchairs all day. This is interesting and proves something I have thought and consider true. No matter the age if you take care of yourself you can do anything you want.
Japanese weightlifter Tsutomu Tosuka won first place in the seniours above 70 category in the 21st anneversary [...]
Getting Started with J-Pop
To get started with J-Pop you first need to actually do some listening to j-pop. Visit my post on “Online Japanese Music Radio Stations” to get started listening right now.
Next is to get started listening and finding artists you like. I asked on twitter if people had any suggestions on what they like [...]
Online Japanese Music Radio Stations
There are a lot of different resources I use to listen to japanese audio. One of them is streaming online stations. Here are a few I listen to.
Kawaii-Radio:
This is my favorite station as it plays mostly anime soundtracks and that tends to be more of the Japanese music I like since I watch so much [...]
Who is Hatsune Miku
As I have started to pay more attention to the otaku subculture one character I see and hear about a lot is Hatsune Miku. After finally getting annoyed and not knowing who she is I decided to look up who she is and what she is from. Basically she is the main voice [...]
