Japanese Yokai can be cute. On the flipside, they can be utterly evil and scary too! Here are 15 deadly Yokai you’d never want to meet, within or outside of Japan.
Some scholars questioned whether her analyses truly reflected how all women speak in any given moment and were alarmed at the danger of perpetuating the stereotypes which presumed that women's speech was "aberrant" (see Johnson 1983; Kramarae 1990; Spitzack and Carter 1987). However, as Lakoff...
When someone’s in danger or in a bad situation, they can use the word ヤバい. However, young people have started to use the term to mean “uncool” or anything negative. In a reverse-Uno twist, the word is now being used for positive things too. So in general, ヤバい is an adjecti...
*cite book|last= Constantine, Peter|author-link = Peter Constantine|title=Japan's Sex Trade: A Journey Through Japan's Erotic Subcultures|location=Tokyo|publisher=Yen Books|year=1993| id = ISBN 4-900737-00-3* Weisser, Thomas, and Yuko Mihara Weisser. "Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex ...
Having witnessed the whole battle from having created fire, Konton states how good a show it was and smiles in satisfaction, now aware that the Half-Demon Princesses do have a weakness: The New Moon. Totetsu, the last of the Four Perils is eating monks to increase his power. Taking ...
Danger to Manifold! The rumors we feared were true. Scarcely believable, but true. Mitsubishi announced today that it is reviving the name of a beloved sport coupe to use on a new crossover model called the — are you ready? — Eclipse Cross. This … Continue reading → Posted in News ...
It has been widely noted that early Joseon paintings contributed to the development of the paintings of a scholar’s studio in Muromachi Japan. The monks’ poempaintings themed on their studio names further attest to the significant impact that early Joseon paintings made over not just the style...
That didn’t help. The next thing I tried to do was see if I could pick out some of the character’s names from the japanese audio. I knew I was pretty much taking on an impossible task there, but, if they tagged any of the names with an honorary whatever, as they so often do...
For the product that you end up seeing here, that might seem ridiculous. I mean, there’s quite a lot I would have liked to have done differently. But if you’ve been following what I’ve been up to for the last one to two months, this is abso-friggin’-lutely amazing. My PC ...
connotation (such as death, danger, and an ill fate), the skull utilized in Japanese tattoos was meant to be a positive representation of the natural life cycle. Traditionally, the Japanese skull tattoo represents change, which is sensible as death is that the greatest change man can ...