The original Nintendo Wii was not a big console, per se, but you could never hope to fit one in your pocket. Or…could you? As it turns out, console modders [Wesk] and [Yveltal] reckon they ...

Thatched roofs were once a common sight in the Japanese countryside, but they started to disappear in the 1950s, when people began migrating en masse to the cities. You can still see them in ...

The best Wii games still hold a special place in our hearts today, thanks to all the inventive motion control fun they offer. When the console first launched in 2006, many of the releases really ...

What is a Japanese spider crab? They may look like something from a 1950s sci-fi film, but Japanese spider crabs are gentle giants. And giants they are. Of the 60,000 species of crustaceans on ...

Japan adopts Chinese written characters. Shotoku Taishi (574-622) begins to shape Japanese society and government more after the pattern of China. He seeks centralization of government and a ...

The Japanese language has three types of characters: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic symbols, each representing one syllable while Kanji is ideogram, each stand ...

Our new TV program helps you learn about Japan and the Japanese language through simple and easy Japanese news. You will learn not only Japanese expressions but also the latest situation of Japan.

Japanese authorities are urging people in a wide area of the country to take precautions against a possible mega-earthquake. The Meteorological Agency issued a special mega-earthquake advisory for ...

Story 1 A Story That Made Akazu no Ma Sasaki Aya the site director of a construction shop visited the hot spring area after being asked to renovate the banquet hall by a longestablished inn was ...

Japanese television network TV Asahi aired the special program “50,000 Users Vote: The TV Game National Poll” today, which announced the results of a poll in which more than 50,000 users ...

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