While watching a detective show (相棒) there was a scene where the younger detective was telling the older detective (水谷豊) some obscure tidbit about butterflies. Impressed by the fact the older detective didn’t know that piece of trivia, he continued by counting a group of butterflies to make a new point. He said:
このごひきは・・・ [...]

Perhaps we should put a big 640 x 480 graphic on the front page of TJP saying “We don’t help with kanji Tattoos!”
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I’ve been busy with a major product that I hope will go live in a little bit, but it may still be more like a lot a bit.  Sorry no hints… yet.
In [...]

Obviously, I didn’t do this one, but it is just funny:

It seems Princess Leah’s mom ate Doraemon’s last Dorayaki and this is the catalyst for him turning to the dark side. This is a scoop not even George Lucas knew about!
I thought this guy had a video of the ファイト一発！ (the energy drink) mountain [...]

This site doesn’t traffic in any traffic to speak of (yet), so I am always interested in how people find the place. As you would expect most people come here from TheJapanesePage.com, but occasionally I get hits from Google and other search engines.
This morning while looking at the stats, I noticed someone found us [...]

A few nights ago, while flipping through the late night listings on TV Japan, I set the receiver to DVR a サラリーマンNEO episode. I thought it would be a repeat since the series ended a while back. But it was the first episode of the second season! (It may be [...]

Years ago Yumi had a blog even before I knew what a blog was. At the time we were living with my parents who had cats; five cats actually.* Yumi loved cats. So her site was called Neko Nikki (cat diary).
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While in Japan she had cat everything (cat stationary, cat photo books, [...]

Learn Japanese: Animal Sounds Part 1

New Video!
One Minute Japanese: Animal Sounds Part I
Cat: nya-nya-
Dog: wan wan
Pig: bu-bu-

This just in…
Today’s word: 復讐 fukushuu - revenge
Hearing Makoto (the boy) cry, I noticed Teyve (the dog) had snatched the apple Makoto was working on. I said, ‘bad doggie’ and turning back to Makoto, I spotted him taking revenge by snacking on the dry dog food left from their breakfast. Of course [...]

I discovered two new idioms (for me).
I was watching a 名探偵コナン anime. The bad guy after seeing Conan and his little friends seemingly trapped in an elevator - it looked bad for them, really bad - belted out a menacing laugh and said 「ふくろのねずみだ！」
Surprisingly, Kenkyusha’s huge J-E didn’t have this idiom, but the 広辞苑 [...]

Ok, I know I’ll get into trouble for this one (again), but my fingers are doing the typing - not my better sense.
The other day we came back from our daily walk (lately, bi-daily) and as usual, I called the dogs to drink water. *
This time I heard Yumi say, “Clay! やめて！”. I [...]