Have you ever wondered how Japan fits their roughly 78 million vehicles into a habitable area roughly the size of Maine? Well, it takes just....
1 Aug 11:19 am  from  Nihonshock   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Japan is one of the safest countries in the world, but not without its share of problems. For the most part, these problems amount to stolen....
4 Jul 7:43 pm  from  Nihonshock   [Profile]  [Recent] 

One of the joys of learning Japanese is seeing that shocked and dumbfounded look on native speakers’ faces when you fire off a difficult w....
23 May 11:09 am  from  Nihonshock   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Have you been a bad boy or bad girl lately? Well, maybe you should turn yourself in for your heinous crimes at a kangoku izakaya. Kangoku....
18 Apr 1:58 pm  from  Nihonshock   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Following on yesterday’s graphical tweak of the site, I’ve added a new site feature: Vocabulary. Now, whenever you view the Nihonshock h....
17 Apr 4:52 pm  from  Nihonshock   [Profile]  [Recent] 

While I love my iPhone with a passion, I have to admit that the Apple team could have put a little more thought into what features would be ....
4 Apr 12:28 pm  from  Nihonshock   [Profile]  [Recent] 

If you’re serious about learning Japanese, I’m sure you will eventually either want to or need to be able to type in Japanese on your co....
1 Apr 9:33 pm  from  Nihonshock   [Profile]  [Recent] 

It’s that time of month again! Here are all the proverbs I tweeted throughout February, along with readings, translations, explanations an....
3 Mar 10:30 pm  from  Nihonshock   [Profile]  [Recent] 

If you’re following me on Twitter, you’ll know that I recently went to Tokyo for the weekend. Living in Nagoya, I frequently get hit wit....
24 Feb 9:16 pm  from  Nihonshock   [Profile]  [Recent] 

You may already know that Japan has the world’s longest life expectancy. But did you know that Japanese are also the most well prepared fo....
17 Feb 10:23 pm  from  Nihonshock   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Oh the hardships, the ordeals I endure for the sake of this blog. But someone had to do it, someone had to stomach 5 whole pizzas in the cou....
12 Feb 10:20 pm  from  Nihonshock   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Last fall, I purchased an iPhone 3GS through Japan’s official distributor for the device, Softbank, along with a two-year phone contract. ....
7 Feb 8:42 pm  from  Nihonshock   [Profile]  [Recent] 

After 2 months of planning and composition (okay, so I did procrastinate quite a bit), I now understand how Moses felt when he descended Mou....
5 Feb 8:45 pm  from  Nihonshock   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Japanese particles are both a blessing and a curse. They make Japanese grammar simple and direct, almost like a computer language. They alwa....
4 Feb 12:26 am  from  Nihonshock   [Profile]  [Recent] 

It’s been a quiet couple months here at Nihonshock, but this is the first blog post in what’s going to be a busy month! As usual, here I....
1 Feb 11:49 pm  from  Nihonshock   [Profile]  [Recent]