Posts Tagged ‘Japan’
Kobi’s in a Pickle, he’ll have to Mustard the strength to Ketchup to Chestnut
When is a hot dog not a hot dog? When it's a uniquely Japanese dogawich of course! Recently, six-time Coney Island Fourth of July hot dog eating contest champion Takeru Kobayashi was treated to a few hours in the big house for his antics at the annual Nathan’s Famous International Hot Dog Eating Contest held in Coney Island, NY. The [...]
Japanese Ghosts – Youkai, Yuurei, Bakemono and Oni
Japanese Goblins, Ghosts, Shapeshifters and Devils of the Buddhist Hell are a motley crew ranging from downright funny to ghoulishly scary. The Kings of Japanese Ghost Stories (Kaidan) are Koizumi Yakumo f/k/a Lafcadio Hearn who wrote Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things in the early 1900s and Shigeru Mizuki who, in the [...]
