Here are some AKB48 songs that have been given the chiptune treatment. This basically means that the songs sound as if they were played on a NES or a Gameboy....
In Japan, Coming of Age Day is celebrated each year on the second Monday of January. Japanese people are legally considered adults at the age of 20. So to celebrate...
Every year for April Fool's Day, Google always comes up with an ingenious joke of some kind. This year, they've introduced "Google Maps: 8-bit edition" which takes Google Maps and morphs it into a NES era world map like in the Dragon Quest series.
On March 25, 2012, the third and last day of AKB48′s Saitama Super Arena concert, Acchan surprised everyone by saying that she’s decided to graduate from the group. Here’s a...
It’s already been one year since the horrific 9.0 earthquake struck Eastern Japan’s coast on March 11, 2011. The earthquake was followed by a tsunami which generated waves that were...
Show: Music Lovers (April 4, 2011) During the talk segment of the show, the hosts discuss “forbidden topics” with AKB48 members such as “When it comes to school uniforms, I’m...
Show: Waratte Iitomo! (February 15, 2012) Sasshi has mentioned on various TV shows that she’s an idol wota. On AKBINGO, she did otagei dance a couple of times and on...
On the December 10, 2011 episode of the ANN (All Night Nippon) radio show, Miichan, Mariko-sama and Harunyan were the hosts. During one of the segments, Mariko thoroughly enjoyed...
On the music show “Countdown TV” that aired on February 11, 2012, Yuko Oshima and Tomomi Itano had a small talk segment where Yuko talked about her Valentine Day’s memories....
I recently read a diary written by pea-san on Lang-8 that was quite interesting. After correcting many entries written in Japanese, she noticed some mistakes that Japanese learners often make.