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Brian Ashcraft
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Originally from Texas, Ashcraft has called Osaka home since 2001. He has authored six books, including most recently, The Japanese Sake Bible.

There was a profoundly moving story in the NYT a few years ago detailing the lives of other survivors, and the family members they had lost. Read more

Too much Chewbacca these days. Not enough Drewbacca.

I agree, it doesn’t look bad on him Read more

I got a notice from Amazon that my pre-order of the 3rd volume was cancelled by the publisher (J-Novel) as well. I was enjoying the series too. Not sure what was supposed to make the reader uncomfortable, maybe whatever it was got lost in translation. Hopefully it will be temporary, because I really do want to Read more

Captain Tsubasa was HUGE in europe and the middle east. Read more

Ha-ha.. no.

Ah... fashion designers, always thinking themselves so ahead of the curve, so world changeing, so original, and then they come with a half assed version of the braguette.

I’m not even Japanese and I’m baffled by the pants. Read more

Got it in one.

I mean, the positioning is a little strange, but c’mon—there’s no way that flap, with its eye-drawing difference in color, is not meant to focus attention directly on the crotch region of those pants.

As I understand it (and as many commenters quoted in the article have alluded to), Japanese society tends Read more

The primary reason Bluehole has to lose this case is because Fortnite is a derivative work with the derivation lying solely on the vague concept of what constitutes “battle royale” gameplay. Read more

Ultimately, this just makes Blue Hole look pathetic. Read more

Oh boy. Remember the last time a company that used Epic’s engine sued Epic? Silicon knights remembers. Read more

Rough translation on some entries below because these are too hilarious. Read more