9 UNESCO Properties in Okinawa
The Curtis family recently checked off all nine of the properties listed under the "Gusuku Sites and Related Properties of the Kingdom of Ryukyu."
Anime Shows How Kanji Can Help You Get Girls
This sweet high-school anime shows how learning kanji can be the key to getting a girlfriend!
The 6 Handiest Japanese Learning Tools
Learning Japanese is not as hard as you think!
How Do You Work Study into a Random Schedule?
My wife and I were living in the house she grew up in, along with her brother’s very large family. My extreme lack of fluency placed me in an isolated, dependent, and helpless position.
Want to Learn Japanese? Here’s how I did it.
Find out how to remember 2,000 kanji in just two months!
Who Wants to Play With Katakana Transformers!
These plastic toys are shaped like the names of animals written in katakana—which then transform into the actual animals they represent!
The 10 JLPT Commandments
Ten rules to live by to ensure a heavenly score on the Japanese Language Proficiency Test.
Japan's 11 Most Gorgeous Drone Videos
Think you can handle watching these drone-shot videos and not be compelled to visit Japan? Just try!
6 Key Tools for Passing the JLPT
Here's a list of six simple tools—both physical and digital—that will help you pass the Japanese Language Proficiency Test with flying colors!
Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum
It turns out that kids can enjoy a museum just as much as mom!
8 Floors for Period Pics
If you’ve ever wanted to turn back time and step into the clothes of a well-dressed geisha, a pipe-smoking courtesan or a sword-wielding samurai warrior, we’ve found the perfect place for you!
(Actual) Fun Ways to Learn Japanese Abroad!
Here are some of our favorite tried-and-tested ways to learn Japanese while having fun! And you don't have to be in Japan to do them!
Learn Japanese Like Darth Vader
This Star Wars Japanese-English dictionary teaches you to talk like Lord Vader!
How Do You Study Japanese?
Find out how The Japan Guy lifted himself from zero to the plateau of effective Japanese communication.
The Japan Guy's 6 Best Japanese Lessons
Donald Ash has spent years in Japan helping people find their way, both linguistically and pragmatically. These are our six favorite lessons from his extensive site!
5 Reasons the Japanese Language is Crazy
2,000 years of development can leave a pretty big linguistic jumble.
4 Ways to Learn Japanese from YouTube
Not only do we present YouTube's three best Japanese learning channels, we offer a slew of other ways to pick up the language through video!
15 Years & 800 Pieces of Art
For 50 days every three years, visitors to the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale get to traverse 200 villages to explore what is effectively the largest art gallery in the world.
The ABCs of the JLPT
Learn the ins and outs of the benchmark Japanese language test!
Learn Japanese Vocabulary with Chocolate!
Chocolates that teach Japanese onomatopoeia words unveiled at the 2015 Paris Design Show.
