In this era of technology, you would think that we would write about a fantastic game that has a great impact and awesome graphics. But no, today we will write about a classic Japanese game. Daruma otoshi is one of those games that will always stay around. It is possible that you might not play [...]
In Japan, Kingyo Sukui is a very typical game and can be played by young and old. The game may have a slight resemblance to the commonly known game of ‘fishing duckies’. For this game you need the following: A paper filter. A container with water for the fish you already caught (we don’t want [...]
Perhaps this is one of the secrets why the average Japanese person is so slender. I thought it was because of their diet, which is mainly based on rice, soy and lots of vegetables. I also thought that the amount of hours they work and the stress that usually goes accompanied with that, could be [...]
Looking into the history of Kancho, I saw that the Kancho became very famous thanks to the manga and anime Naruto. Here we can see a technique called “Thousand years of pain” and this awesome technique is precisely what a kancho does to the enemy.
First, I must say that Japan is the land of the umbrella. Within 10 minutes, you can go from drinking a beer in the sun and enjoying a wonderful day, to having to run for refuge from the rain and buy yourself an umbrella. Therefore, the umbrella becomes a removable object. When the sun comes [...]
These jokes are so well known, that they don’t need an introduction. However they are too funny to keep them from you. Everybody knows that the Japanese love to scare people; the worse the scare is, the better the prank. This video is quite old, but it perfectly shows how the Japanese have had years [...]
The game Mario Kart has been one of theibggest successes of the Nintendo since it came out on the Super Nes and will surely continue to be so in the future. Mario Kart has undergone quite some changes over the years: from playing with the typical remote to the latest version of the Wii console [...]
The dog in the video is called Mame and he takes his performance very seriously because getting his treat depends on it. Curiously, when the Japanese woman tells him to bark softer: he does! She uses the word kawaii, which is one of the most fashionable words in Japan, along with moe. The truth is [...]
The ninjas knew a number of technical movements that helped them to quietly and swiftly move around different kinds of places. One of the movements they learned was ‘nuki ashi’. This step helped them to tread on wooden floors undetected. In Japan, most floors had a special mechanism incorporated. This technique ensured a squeaky or [...]
They may seem like two totally different classes, but the backgrounds of these two military classes actually had a lot in common. The most important factors that unite them is their sense of honour; both classes lived by, and for, honour. Neither would perform an act that was contradictory to their rules and they would [...]