Both Japanese and Western visitors participate in this morning’s service, although the entire ceremony of prayer, guided meditation, chanting, and even the sermon, are in Japanese. Even without understanding a word, the service is gorgeously moving, with gongs and chants and incense swirls transpo...
In Japanese, fujoshi is a homonym for “fujoshi” written as 婦女子, meaning a woman or grown woman. In this instance, fujoshi uses the kanji characters 腐女子 with 腐 meaning rotten and 女子 still meaning girl or woman. Fujoshi can be directly translated as “rotten woman,” however it g...