Everybody needs a little fun! Here you’ll find links to our Fun Link Friday articles compiled for easy access. There’s everything from online games and cultural events to bizarre news and neat stories from history. You can also preview the excerpt versions via the fun link friday tag. Enjoy!
- Rice Field Art
- Sushi Cat and デブ猫
- Halloween Prank Videos
- Translated Japanese Ghost Stories
- Online games for Japanese study
- Hanafuda!
- Done with turkey? Now try people!
- Take a Trip to Cat Island!
- Smart vending machines make corporate big brother a little more creepy
- Stuff You Missed in History Class
- Losing Time to Books Ngram Viewer
- Nothing like human sacrifice to top off a good castle!
- Do you know your prefectures?
- Winter Festivals in Northern Japan
- Above and beyond the call of origami
- Japan Blog Matsuri
- Japanese fonts
- Anna the Red
- Nandoku Kanji
- Podcasts for Japanese Learners
- World Digital Library
- Eigo Noto DVD 1: Understanding Japanese Women
- Digital Gallery of World Picture Books
- Kansai Dialect Translator
- Saying Hello From Beyond the Grave
- An Introduction to Japanese Pro Wrestling
- Tokyo’s Themed Restaurants
- Miso: How it’s made!
- Japan’s youngest expert sake connoisseur
- Kitten delays Tokyo trains – Adopt disaster-affected pets!
- Japanese Drinking Games
- Japan Trends
- Documentary on Keiko Fukuda, Judo’s Only Female 10th Degree
- TEDxTokyo 2011
- Floating Japanese tea house in DC
- Japanese Graphic Design from the 1920′s and 30′s.
- Japanese Children’s Games
- Kusatsu Onsen
- Roudoku Podcasts
- Yôkai Train
- Halloween Bento
- Yuru Character Grand Prix 2011
- See Pochi Run! The most popular names for pets in Japan
- Fried Chicken and Sushi
- Yamada Keisuke’s Banana Art (on Tofugu)
- Kanazawa in the Showa 1930′s (1955-1965)
- Oshibori (hot towel) Art
- In Search of Sake
- Celebrity Ads
- Then and Now Photos of Dejima (via Japan Probe)
- The Ghibli Museum: The Most Magical Place on Earth
- Rethinking Tatami
- Gundam Galore!
- Ideal Japanese Leaders Poll
- Anatomical Cross-sections Made from Japanese Mulberry Paper
- 100 Examples of Japanese Municipal Flags
- Lars Martinson’s Kameoka Diaries
- On Being Funny in Japan
- Kenketsu-chan
- A Shrine to Energy Drinks
- A Magical Adventure: Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySea
- World Heritage Site Shirakawa-gō (360°/Gigapixel)
- Here’s to a horrifying drive to work
- Miyajima: The Wonders of Japan’s Island Shrine (360˚ Panorama)
- Illusions
- Country Quiz
- World Map Quiz… in Japanese!
- Haruki Murakami Bingo
- Ii ne! Facebook is a perfect place for Japanese immersion
- TEDxSeeds – Toshio Ohi – Live performance of Japanese traditional art ‘OHI YAKI’
- The World’s Most Expensive 1 Bedroom Apartment
- Sapore dei Mobili
- Two Views of the Shikoku Henro Pilgrimage
- Japan’s Manhole Covers
- Inspirational Japanese
- Haikyo, Abandoned Sites in Japan
- Japan Fireworks
- Minimalist Miyazaki Film Posters
- Origami Heaven Event
- “A Fabulous Experience” Rotary Youth Exchange
- Japanese Street Fashion
- Complaint Choir of Tokyo
- Alex Mitchell’s Sengoku Avengers
- Halloween at Baskin Robins, Japan
- Halloween Bento Roundup 2012
- Apple Stencils
- Beer can Takatori Castle
- Interview with Frederik L. Scott
- Todaiji Recreated with LEGOs, Pop-up style
- The Best Japanese Junk Food of 2012
- Five Japanese Homes Designed to Keep You in Shape
- Designer Nori
- Yabusame: The Japanese Art of Horseback Archery
- 20 Years of Docomo Cell Phone Design
- The Wonderful Worlds of 100 Waka
- Wakayama’s Underwater Postbox
- Deep Kyoto & Kyoto Baths
- Amezaiku Candy Sculpting
- The Famous Foods of Every Japanese Prefecture
- How the heck is nori made?
- A unique White Day gift
- Photos of the Sakurajima Eruption
- Toyo Ito Wins Pritzker Prize 2013
- Cafe ChocoTea’s LINE Latte Art
- JAPAN THIS!
- Tokyo’s Shrinking Building
