Way back in college a friend introduced me to P.D.Q. Bach. For those who haven’t heard of this particular son of Johann Sebastian Bach, allow me to explain.*
Professor Peter Schickele has made it his life’s work (four decades) to educate the public about Bach’s most forgotten son. A tribute to musical history, Professor [...]

It has been a while, but I just completed a new video. I’ve spent much of my free time recently working on the new TJP, but I really love making videos. I am far from good at it (yet), but I am learning. In the process, I hope some of the videos [...]

Just wasted (half empty) - invested (half full) - seven minutes and fifty-two seconds watching a video on Youtube. The video editing was well done; the Japanese pronunciation… not as well done, but five stars for giving it the ole college がんばれ！ I’m sure in a year or so, they will be ペラペラ.

Seeing this [...]

First, sorry for not posting so far this week. I could tell you all about how I was kidnapped by aliens and forced to eat natto whilest, and at the same time, listening to rap music, but the truth is I was hoping to finish a video I was working on yesterday before posting. [...]

Problems installing Adobe Illustrator CS3 on Windows XP Pro
I’ll try to stick with Japanese topics, but I thought I’d share this just in case it helps ‘the next feller’.
A few months ago I decided I wanted a quality video editing software. I was torn between Sony Vegas and Adobe Premiere.* I decided [...]

Here is another installment from the revised Fast Track Japanese Grammar pages. Again, the goal of the series is simplicity and simplicity. Please leave any comments or questions!

Making questions か
Making questions in Japanese is easy! — REALLY! Usually you can change a statement into a question by just adding a か ka [...]

Technorati is a site that categorizes and ranks millions of blogs. I’ve been watching this blog’s progress closely. A little over a month ago our ranking (among all other blogs ranked by Technorati, was a whopping 1,357,685. That means 1,357,684 other blogs are more popular than this one. Amazingly [...]

About a year ago Paul_b did a lot of work on the grammar pages at TJP. (See here) He expanded (and corrected when necessary) my old pages. Thanks to Paul for all the hard work! I hope we will see you around soon!!
一石二鳥 isseki nichou - Kill Two Birds with One [...]

I get a lot of link requests by email for TheJapanesePage.com. The sad thing is 99% of the email requests are spam - or I consider it spam since they are obviously automated and impersonal. I’ll explain below but here is this morning’s email with sensitive information X’ed out:
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Here’s this week’s report on the Sunday Korean drama.
- 春のワルツ
Finally Philip (poor Philip) tells The Onion the truth about お兄さん. Far from being a cold hearted monster who left her alone after her surgery as a kid, it was he who actually saved her life. He allowed himself to be ‘adopted’ with the condition [...]