year of the snake
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, it is 2013!
No matter where you are in the world, the clock has struck 12, the ball has dropped, rockets have launched and people have kissed and made promises to better themselves in some way or other. Read More
Chinese Photoshop Trolls Part 3: This Time It’s Personal1
China’s Photoshop Experts Will Fix Your Bad Photos, But Be Careful What You Wish For2
Chinese Photoshop Trolling Part 2: Now with 20% More Shirtless Men!3
JSDF’s new helicopter may or may not be fake, a real-life transformer4
Horrifying Hello Kitty soap dispenser makes every restroom visit a test of will5Chinese Photoshop Trolls Part 3: This Time It’s Personal1China’s Photoshop Experts Will Fix Your Bad Photos, But Be Careful What You Wish For2
Fashion Friends: Twitter Proves Almost Every Japanese College Student Wears the Same Exact Outfit3Chinese Photoshop Trolling Part 2: Now with 20% More Shirtless Men!4
Oozing up From Below, Mysterious Marshmallow-like Substance Covers Nanjing Street5
Disney Villains Clean Up Well, Wow Japan1
Crime of Passion: Three Men Forcibly Deported from Saudi Arabia for Being “Too Handsome”2
Real-Life Barbie Gives Her Friends and Family a Makeover, Turns Them into Dolls3Chinese Photoshop Trolls Part 3: This Time It’s Personal4Oozing up From Below, Mysterious Marshmallow-like Substance Covers Nanjing Street5
We Made Coca-Cola Transparent and Colorless. It Tastes Like…1
Peenzilla Worship! Japan’s Kanamara Festival Coming Up this April!2
Chinese Woman on Trial for Killing Man by Squeezing His Scrotum3
Chinese Student’s Bicycle Seat Breaks and… Gyah!4
Before and After: 31 Startling Images of Plastic Surgery in Korea 【Photo Album】5
Fashion Friends: Twitter Proves Almost Every Japanese College Student Wears the Same Exact Outfit
Japanese men have spoken: they don’t like your nail art
South Korean media alarmed as study shows 1 in 5 young people is NEET
Before and After: 31 Startling Images of Plastic Surgery in Korea 【Photo Album】
Time for Your Hump-Day Treat! Kitty Shows Us How to Relax 【Video】
The Five Japanese Streets That People of Japan Most Want to Visit
Pigs fly (in broth form) as ANA serves up in-flight Ippudo ramen
Japanese iPad artist is the Leonardo da Vinci of digital finger paints 【Video】
What Talent! One Student’s Amazing Short Animated Film Sets Internet Abuzz With Excitement 【Video】
Man’s job threatened over anonymous anime-related blog posts
Philip Kendall
Writer / Translator Hailing from Liverpool in the UK, Philip Kendall made Japan his second home in the summer of 2006 after dolefully abandoning his childhood dream of becoming a ghost buster.
Steven Simonitch
Writer/Translator Though a native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Steven currently resides in Nagano, Japan, where he is known by the old lady at the supermarket as “the white guy who always buys 2 packs of natto.
Master Blaster
Writer / Translator Master Blaster is the two-man translating team of Steven Le Blanc and Masami M.
Kay
Writer / Translator Kay is a native Japanese who has lived in Honolulu, Hawaii and Los Angeles, California. She currently resides in Tokyo and enjoys writing about a wide range of topics, including all things cute and glamorous.
Michelle Lynn Dinh
Writer / Translator Originally from California, Michelle is currently working as an assistant English teacher on the tiny island of Chiburi in Shimane prefecture.
Jessica Ocheltree
Writer / Translator Jessica Ocheltree is a freelance writer and editor living in the exciting, interesting and sometimes perplexing city of Tokyo.
The Starbucks tumbler limited to one place in the world: Haneda Airport