There aren’t many countries in the world without something absolutely ripper to marvel at. Mother Nature, as fickle and violent as she can be seems to have a pretty good eye for beauty...
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Naoto Matsumura was a resident of Fukushima when the devastating earthquake of 2011 hit. As we all know, people were required to exit Fukushima quick smart due to the massive smash-up that was...
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Kit Kats are a classic snack. I don’t know a single human being that wouldn’t happily slam one of those bad boys down their gullet, satiated or not. Today I came across the...
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Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) was an incredible Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter (meaning “pictures of the floating world”) and printmaker of the Edo period. His most famous work is the The Great Wave off Kanagawa (above) which was...
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You don’t get to see these weirdos in real life too often, not because they’re from an alien planet, but because they live in the deep and are rarely caught by fishermen. Giant...
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A while back I posted a collection of weird stuff you could buy from Japan Trend Shop Online. I enjoyed browsing their mental selection of goods and thought it was high time I released...
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You could easily argue that the Korean soldier Yang Kyoungjong was the luckiest and the unluckiest soldier that ever lived. He managed to find himself fighting for three different countries: Japan, Germany and...
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Some believe Jesus was crucified, buried in a cave, rose again and ascended to heaven leaving no earthly trace. Others believe Jesus died as a normal man and remained buried and rotted away,...
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Whilst “researching” a recent article about Star Wars manga comics, I happened to stumble across a manga version of Poirot. I must admit, I was fairly surprised to find it. I can fully understand...
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Japan has a rich tradition of taking Western ideas, giving them a little twist and a liberal portion of extra weird. They say “well… OK Westerners, you’ve done a pretty good job, but we...
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