#japanUnmoderated tagAll postsTrendingHotNewPromotedPayoutsdbooster in #hive-184309 • 4 days agoWhy Fighters Yell Their Attacks: From Kabuki to Street FighterIf you’ve played Street Fighter or pretty much any Japanese fighting game, you’ve heard it a thousand times: characters yelling out the namesnyc925 in #haiku • last yearFallen Butterfly ~ Haiku of Japan落花枝にかへると見れば胡蝶哉 rakka eda ni kaeru to mireba kochoo kana fallen blossom returning to the branch? ah, no—a butterfly —Moritake (trans. David LaSpina ) That is, me…hirohurl in #alive • 4 months agoJoin Me As I Hang Out at a Local Summer Street Festival Somwhere in Hiroshima!This is summer 2025 in Rakurakuen (楽々園), a suburb in the western outskirts of Hiroshima, Japan - my neck of the woods. The festival is run by the local traders and it's one of my favhirohurl in #alive • last yearThe Rainman, the Frog, and the ... Willow! 🐸Earlier this week I blogged about receiving a souvenir "frog-bun" ("kaeru manju") from a student who had just come back from a trip to Nagoya. In the blog post, which you can…hirohurl in #alive • 11 months agoRobert Greene's "Daily Law" for Today: "Change is the Law"The sky was leaden with clouds today, Epiphany 2025, but as the rain held off I went out for a walk with the intention of doing a 90 second dead-hang in a park, but when I got there some gevih in #fiction • last yearThe Housekeeper and the Professor - Yōko Ogawasource This was such a sweet and endearing experience. I totally fell in love with the characters and how intimate the MC and the pdbooster in #hive-101690 • last yearThe 50/50 ClubYesterday in the Dodgers game against the Marlins, Shohei Ohtani joined a very exclusive club, a club of exactly one (himself): the 50/50 club. 50 homeruns and 50 steals. This…dbooster in #hive-101690 • last monthOhtani’s Historic Night: Three Homers, Ten Strikeouts, One for the Ages I daresay most of the people on Hive don’t care about baseball. I love baseball. This post is about baseball — so feel free to turn away. I won’t be hurt.dbooster in #hive-101690 • 4 months agoThe Great Bambino vs ShotimeFor a century, Babe Ruth stood alone as the Great Bambino, the Sultan of Swat, The Colossus of Clout. Not just as the home run kingdbooster in #hive-111011 • last yearJapanese Drinking CultureThe other day I came across a great link that I'll share at the bottom of this post. It is all about Japan's drinking culture, giving and defining termdbooster in #hive-111011 • 2 months agoAre You Beating Inflation? The other day I was buying some instant coffee and noticed something: the price was the same, but the size had shrunk. It used to be 90g; ndbooster in #hive-111011 • 2 months agoNone of This Is Real The headlines scream: “$170,000,000,000 wiped out from crypto in 24 hours.” It sounds catastrophic. A hundred and seventy billion gone. Poof! But here’s the thing: that money never really existed.dbooster in #hive-115814 • last monthYamamoto Dominates Game 2, and the 18-Inning Madness of Game 3 What a World Series this has turned out to be. If Game 1 set the tone, then Games 2 and 3 tore the roof off. In the interest of showing my biases: I am for the Dodgers here. I…dbooster in #hive-121744 • last yearOut of Ideas Christopher Booker once wrote an essay called "The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories" in which he argued that there are only seven basic stories in the world and thatdbooster in #hive-126152 • 10 months agoA Walk Through Time; Tracing Footsteps in OkazakiOkazaki Castle Often, I walk in Okazaki. All cities in Japan are old, but this one has a history that stands out.dbooster in #hive-126152 • last yearGo (The Game), Chess and Shogi, and Planning AheadI've blogged before about how my oldest son likes to play chess while my youngest son prefers shogi (Japanese chess). I like both, but I am always reminded that I don't entirely…dbooster in #hive-133974 • 6 months agoAshikaga Yoshimitsu: Shogun, Sovereign, and the Dream of DynastyOn May 31, 1408, exactly 617 years ago to this day, one of the most ambitious and enigmatic men in Japanese history died suddenly, just as he seemed poised to crown his life’s…dbooster in #hive-133974 • 7 months agoPerry's Black Ships and The Opening of Japan![][perry intro] [Note: I originally wrote this on April 10th for this important anniversary. I scheduled it, but Peakd didn't publish it. A fairly common hiccup unfortunately.…dbooster in #hive-133974 • 6 months agoMiyamoto Musashi: Death of a Sword SaintJune 13th marks the death of Miyamoto Musashi, arguably Japan’s most legendary swordsman. He died in 1645, nearly four centuries ago, yet his life and philosophy continue to…dbooster in #hive-133974 • 6 months agoThe Man Who Claimed Hirohito Wasn’t the Real EmperorA few days ago I posted about Emperor Sukō and the chaos of the Northern and Southern Courts. At the end of the post I mentioned a little trivia that after WWII, a guy came…
