You can’t have anime without Japanese culture! Find out where anime fashion comes from and why Japan’s designs are so unique.
Japan uses green technology to help improve our environment and change our climate for the better. So as part of Blog Action Day 2009, we’re going to share some links to alternative energy organizations, green cars and green electronics in Japan.
We love Japanese culture, so today’s recommended article is about Japanese Taiko Drums! The Anime Blog reader and contributor Liz Ohanesian’s has posted a few videos of Taiko at LA Anime Convention Mikomicon at LAWeekly.com. Here’s an excerpt:
Sunday, I headed out to the convention to check out one of its highlights, a performance from Jishin [...]
Just in time for holidays, we’ve got a sack full of links to anime contests and sales for December, 2008! You’ll find RightStuff Holiday Contests; an Emma Contest; RightStuf’s ‘Gobble Up Incredible Deals’ and ‘Bargain Bin Blowout’; AnimeNation’s Stocking Stuffer Sale and other great anime contests and sales!
The Anime Blog reader and contributor Liz Ohanesian has a great article in L.A. Weekly about Elfdoll, a series of customized, ball-jointed dolls made by hand from high-quality materials. Here’s an excerpt:
Elfdoll: Don’t Call It A Toy Company
“Other companies, when they market the dolls, they actually create characters for them,” says Chris Holz of Melbourne, [...]
For all readers who love cherry blossoms, dango, camaraderie, sake and hanami in general, please let everyone know if the sakura (cherry blossoms) are blooming in your neighborhood! Where you live doesn’t matter; Canada, Europe, South America, Hanami Central (Japan), wherever there’s sakura, post a comment below to update fellow hanami fans.
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Spring! It’s officially here, I can smell it. Winter knows its time has come, and even though freak snow storms batter our doors, they’re merely the death throes of a passing season. Soon, the ground will be covered in colorful drifts of crocuses, daffodils, and depending on the locale, cherry blossoms.
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For anyone [...]
It’s coming soon! White Day is this Friday! It’s our day ladies! Our day to rake in the goodies after we forked ‘em over on Valentine’s Day!
Valentine’s Day in Japan, to those who are unfamiliar, is a day when women give men chocolate (choco) and don’t get diddly in return. That’s right, nadda. Women even [...]
Last year, I posted a brief write-up of Valentine’s Day in Japan. To refresh our memories:
On Valentine’s Day in Japan, the women give all the men in their lives chocolate (choco- ãƒãƒ§ã‚³). If the recipient is a co-worker, or someone the woman sees casually, she gives him giri choco (obligation chocolate). [...]
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