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Fun Link Friday: A Shrine to Energy Drinks

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Nyssa

This week’s FLF takes a look at energy drinks, aka genki drinks Taisho Pharmaceutical released the first of this type of drink in 1962 with Lipovitan-D. It’s the drink’s 50th anniversary this year. I’ve never actually tried Lipovitan (it’s also … Continue reading →

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Fun Link(s) Friday: Kenketsu-chan

Posted on April 6, 2012 by LM

Like its US counterpart, the Japan Red Cross Society (日本赤十字社) also collects blood donations. Unlike in the US, each prefecture in Japan has its very own regional Kenketsu-chan (けんけつちゃん), a blood-donation (献血) mascot! Today I received a notice from the … Continue reading →

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Fun Link Friday: Reblog: On Being Funny in Japan

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Paula

Originally posted on This Japanese Life.:
There’s actually no word for “sense of humor” in Japan. According to The Japan Society, “the English term humor implies gentle, kindly laughter and so does the transliterated Japanese term yûmoa. Warai, a Japanese…

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Fun Link Friday: Lars Martinson’s Kameoka Diaries

Posted on March 16, 2012 by LM

Lars Martinson is a cartoonist and a former JET Program ALT who currently works in Kameoka, Japan. The author of the ongoing graphic novel series Tônoharu,which chronicles life as a rural JET, Martinson has created a new series of comics … Continue reading →

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FLF: 100 Examples of Japanese Municipal Flags

Posted on March 2, 2012 by tnguyen3729

A friend of mine sent an old post from Web Designer Depot of 100 Examples of Japanese Municipal Flags I thought worth sharing. From the Web Designer Depot: These flags feature highly stylized bicolor geometric symbols, often incorporating Japanese or Latin characters, making them especially … Continue reading →

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FLF: Anatomical Cross-sections Made from Japanese Mulberry Paper

Posted on February 24, 2012 by tnguyen3729

Lost at E-Minor shared some fascinating art by Lisa Nilsson earlier this month. Her Tissue Series “Anatomical Cross-Sections in Paper” utilizes Japanese mulberry paper. Lisa writes on her website that: These pieces are made of Japanese mulberry paper and the gilded edges … Continue reading →

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Fun Link Friday: Ideal Japanese Leaders Poll

Posted on February 17, 2012 by Nyssa

This week’s Fun Link Friday comes from Japan Probe’s posting of an online poll from Sankei Shinbum in a leadership series on January 2nd. The poll asks participants to rate who they thought were ideal leaders and the worst leaders, … Continue reading →

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Fun Link Friday: Gundam Galore!

Posted on February 3, 2012 by reedra01

I may be behind the times on this one but it was too amazing to pass up. If you are a Gundam geek like me, than I know you will appreciate the existence of this motorcycle as much as I … Continue reading →

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Resource: USCF Japanese Woodblock Prints

Posted on February 1, 2012 by tnguyen3729

Interested in Japanese medical history and art? Check out the University of California San Francisco’s (UCSF) Digital Collection of Japanese Woodblock Prints! About In 1963, an East Asian collection was started by UCSF Provost and university librarian, later Chancellor, John … Continue reading →

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Fun Link Friday: Rethinking Tatami

Posted on January 27, 2012 by LM

As someone who has lived in apartments with both old tatami and new tatami, my relationship with Japan’s traditional straw-mat flooring is complicated.  On one hand, tatami is softer under a futon than linoleum; it retains heat better than (faux-)wooden … Continue reading →

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