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This is a very long-delayed continuation of the Goldmine of Engrish I published previously. I wasn’t planning on posting an Engrish sequel, but the original was so popular, people are practically demanding an encore, so here we go These are some of the most horrifically badly translated subtitles ever put forth by any translation agency. [...]

I’ve been studying higher mathematics since middle school, which involves writing lots of lines of arcane formulas. Throughout all that time, my handwriting has fermented like the finest wine. I never explicitly set out to learn any kind of shorthand, but just by writing and writing and writing, my brain naturally, gradually streamlined my writing. [...]

Early in my Japan trip, I experienced something almost no tourists experience, in part because I speak a ton more Japanese than most tourists, but more importantly because I got lucky as hell. I was on a train somewhere around the Ōmiya area, and I started a conversation with an older Japanese woman. Of course, [...]

My friend K found the ultimate goldmine of Engrish. In case you don’t already know, Engrish is the wonderful dialect of English spoken in Japan. This goldmine is an anime called “Cheeky Angel”. The company hired some really lousy translator to create subtitles, and pure comedy ensues. The ironic thing is, the whole anime is [...]

The sun is setting on the Japan trip, kindling in us the acute pangs of parting. Let’s bid farewell to the World’s Last Empire with a final bash of photos. These photos are mostly from Tokyo. By clicking any picture, you’ll get a large, high-resolution copy of it. In fact, it’s so high resolution it’s [...]

In Kyoto, you can’t throw a rock without hitting three temples and a shrine. Eventually they’re just gonna tear up the whole city and replace it with one gigantic temple. They’ll replace the city buses with little shrines you can crawl into and sit inside of while the power of Buddha levitates them around. Speaking [...]

Mt. Fuji, here we come! This article is the third of a five-part photoblog series. I met up with Tom of JAPANEXILE fame and we took the late bus from Tokyo to the 5th station of Mt. Fuji. There, we also met another friend. Fuji is divided into 10 stations, with the 10th being the [...]

This is part 2 of a five part series of commented photos from my recent Japan trip. The photos are totally badass and my commentary is icing on the cake. How much better could it get? Today’s installment of photos has a loose Yokohama theme. Yokohama means roughly “city by the seashore”. You can get [...]

The “Pictures From Japan” series will be my first attempt at photo blogging. I have around 150 pictures from the Land Of The Rising Sun, and they’re all pretty badass. I’m gonna make this a five-part series, with one installment each day for five days. The posts will be, obviously, image intensive. I’ll attempt to [...]