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I used to live in Kagawa-ken, and having been insanely immersed into the local culture, it kinda goes without say that I'm a die-hard sanuki udon fan. Tenpura udon's my favorite, but I also like...

Not to mention that he falls straight onto the pad... lucky it was there, huh? He even managed to cushion his fall a bit with a roll.

That looks like it could be located just about anywhere. Most jinja are built using the same configuration, and there aren't any distinguishing markings or signs around to help out...

This site is the best one that I've found so far. I studied kana and basic kanji from it for a month before going to Japan and it gave me a reasonably decent writing proficiency from the get go.

I actually never heard it being called anything but sadou until I got back to America, and heard the Japanese people here calling in that. Everyone on Shikoku whom I met called it sadou, including...

As a little anecdote, when I was in Japanese high school, I some of my classmates would even stick their chopsticks right into their obento rice. It was kinda shocking to me, since I'd just learned...

Back when I was doing kendo in Japan, they let us come late or leave early depending on what our excuse was. Naturally, you wouldn't dare to do either without some extenuating circumstances (peer...

I remember that one of the high schools in my area when I was living in Seattle, WA offered karate as part of the gym curriculum. We even studied Japan in social studies (I was in 7th grade at the...

I'm surprised it took the media this long to realize this. In-group/out-group is an integral part of the Japanese culture, after all. The mere fact of the matter is that it'll be very, very hard to...

I've always been interested in the koryu, trying to learn as much about it as possible. As a matter of fact, I entered kendo with the hope that it would teach me some of the internal concepts of the...

My video card won't support it, which nearly caused me to tear apart this computer in a rage. I've been looking forward to the game since February, but I guess now I have something to look forward to...

Thanks for the help everyone; you've had some great replies.

I hate to devote a whole thread to such a simple question, but all my other leads have gone dry. Does anyone here know of any organizations in the US that teach or promote sadou (tea ceremony)? I'm...

Can't forget the chirashi-zushi. You know its festival time when that comes about. Down on Shikoku (where I lived) we had these big chyosa festivals in mid-October which were filled with lights and...

Ooh. That's not too far away from me. Thanks for the heads up, Jeff.

Nice to be in the company of fellow sword-lovers.

I got my shodan in kendo recently. Still waiting on the certificate, though.

Life has returned to a great MA forum! Thanks to you guys for bringing it back up.

I just wash and dry it in a normal cycle with cold water and without soap. I then iron the pleats back into place and fold it up.

There's one called "Unbelievable" that sounds similar to it. A lot of the stories are from Europe or America, and tend to be pretty interesting.

I'm myopic and have a specific eye condition that prevents me from having LASIK done, wearing contacts, or even getting rimless glasses, so I'm stuck with two choices: glasses, or really bad vision....

This in unfortunate, but true. Japanese history classes tend to focus strongly on internal events, hardly touching on how Japan fits into the world picture. Though Japanese know about the atrocity at...

I guess that's why the "steady hand" is important.

My dorm leader (for the Japanese language floor) is organizing a trip for all of us on the floor to be there. It sounds promising. Does anyone have any past experience with it?

I once took a pair of Chinese butterfly knife trainers (the 14" long, wide-bladed type) with me when I was on a Delta flight. They seemed to have no problem with it, especially when I pointed out...

Other than the language study, which takes the cake, this is probably one of the more interesting points raised. Just listening to traditional Ryukyuan music immediately gives the impression that its...