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Fun Link Friday: Is Japanese the most difficult language?

Posted on November 15, 2019 by

The Language Nerds blog recently posted an article summarizing reports from The Foreign Service Institute of the US Department of State, categorizing world languages and their difficulty (namely, the amount of time officials have to spend learning them). The categories … Continue reading →

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Fun Link Friday: Eiji Ohashi’s lonely vending machines

Posted on October 18, 2019 by

This week is just a quick fun link– a CNN feature on the photographer Eiji Ohashi, who has spent years photographing vending machines that often stand alone in Japan’s most isolated places. Travelers unfamiliar with Japan are often shocked by … Continue reading →

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Fun Link Friday: Small Worlds Tokyo

Posted on September 27, 2019 by

If lately you’ve just been feeling insignificant compared to the vastness of the universe, maybe you need to plan on booking a trip to Small Worlds Tokyo, which is set to open next spring. Planned as the world’s largest diorama … Continue reading →

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Fun Link Friday: Ikebana Battles 🌿🌻

Posted on September 20, 2019 by

What artful masterpiece can you put together in five minutes? At the third annual flower arranging battle in Ota, Tokyo this summer, spectators got to find out! Although the traditional art of ikebana (flower arrangement) in Japan is often thought of … Continue reading →

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Fun Link Friday: 2019 Rice Field art at Inakadate

Posted on September 13, 2019 by

As long-time readers know, each year we showcase the rice paddy art of Inakadate, Aomori Prefecture, which has a long standing tradition of growing multicolored rice to great gigantic rice paddy art! This year the theme is  Oshin「おしん」, a television … Continue reading →

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Fun Link Friday: Throw out your garbage!

Posted on August 30, 2019 by

Some of you may have already seen this instagram account going viral, but it’s too funny to miss out on. An anonymous woman has created, in her own words, “an account uploading things my husband has left around.” Entitled “Throw … Continue reading →

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Fun Link Friday: Mapping Ukiyo-e

Posted on August 23, 2019 by

For those who are interested in the intersection of history, art, and technology, a computer science undergrad (@Cascadesssss on Twitter) has produced an OpenStreetMap plotting nearly 300 ukiyo-e prints according to the locations they represent across Japan’s archipelago. The map … Continue reading →

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