Seattle Samurai Book
Kelly has made a beautiful book:
Experience the lives of the first Japanese Americans in the Pacific Northwest through the cartoons and illustrations by Sam Goto
Link tags: japanese
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“Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey,” by Haruki Murakami | The New Yorker
It’s just about an old monkey who speaks human language, who scrubs guests’ backs in the hot springs in a tiny town in Gunma Prefecture, who enjoys cold beer, falls in love with human women, and steals their names.
A sequel to 2006’s A Shinagawa Monkey, translated by Philip Gabriel.
水道橋重工 | Suidobashi Heavy Industry
I’ll take two.
Yakuza 3 reviewed by Yakuza - Boing Boing
The game Yakuza 3 as reviewed by 3 Yakuza.
Mojibakeru kanji-animal transformers ::: Pink Tentacle
Kanji characters that transform into the animal they represent.
Phonetikana - the johnson banks thought for the week
An interesting experiment in making Katakana self-describing.
“Misunderstanding Markup” 日本語訳
Turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so.
Garfield: Lost in Translation
Garfield, translated into Japanese and then translated back into English.
Star Wars: Collecting | Noriyoshi Ohrai: Star Wars Illustrator
Strikingly different illustrations of the Star Wars pantheon from Japan.