On Japan Probe

Since I have a 100+ unread entries from Japan Probe’s feeds, I’m only going to post today’s entries only.

First off, read about why Americans and Japanese Read Faces Differently. Is it really due to tatemae? and probably it will help you figure out those Japanese emoticons.

Still via Japan Probe, another study that found a Perceptual Divide Between Asians and Americans.

If your not up to some scientific studies stuff for today then checkout Japan’s “top three” of almost everything you can think of starting with a group of hundreds of islands called Matsushima.

And for fun, create your own Toro(the Sony cat) from paper. It’s a limited paper-folding project offered in downloadable PDF or JPEG form until June 30th.

Japanese Culture

For real I’m quite overloaded with information right now, so I’ll continue with the posts tomorrow. But before I go here’s an interesting read: Japanese Culture: A Primer for Newcomers and my favorite excerpt from it(haven’t finished reading it yet) is below…

Do not feel that you will ever have to completely understand the Japanese, since the Japanese don’t completely understand themselves either.

Hyper Japan start!

Here’s something for a start, my recent favourite Japanophile who is no other than Danny Choo. I recently stumbled upon his website and damn! i was in for a treat! In there you’ll find massive info and links from Anime DVDs to Adult goods(*ehem*). Did i forget to mention that Mr. Danny Choo takes awesome snaps of stuffs? Yes, the site has galleries of various things Japanese. And for a small proof let me introduce you to Mai Shiranui…

I’m not really into Japanese dolls but when i saw this my nose bleed a bit. So here’s more of Mai on Moeyo(in Japanese) and still more. Also I think it is the same one i saw on Japanorama I’m not sure though let me watch it again.