This event aims to gather Japanese culture-oriented organizations and guest speakers into a large-scale organisation summit to promote Japanese pop culture, such as anime and manga, cosplay, and music, in the Philippines and discuss its influence on the Filipino youth today.
Category: Travel and Living
The Seven Deadly Sins Curry Gift Set: A Taste Test
Overall, it’s a pretty unique and memorable gift set, from one of the sexiest series to come out of Japan in recent years.
Three Cheers for Banzai: The Great Teppanyaki Theater
It is definitely a lot of kitschy fun and great food, and I can imagine myself coming back again and again.
2014 Japanese Language Proficiency Test
The test is divided into three sections: Vocabulary and Grammar, Reading Comprehension, and Listening.
Happy Tanabata Festival!
Also known as the Japanese Star Festival, is the meeting of the lovers Princess Orihime (the star Vega) and Hikoboshi the Cowherd (the star Altair) in the night sky every year on 7th July.
Pudding Ramen: A Taste Test
We conned a bunch of officemates into shelling out for this experiment — to hilarious results!
Japan Relaxes Visa Requirements, But Still Not Visa-free for Filipinos
Multiple-entry visa requirements have been substantially relaxed, and requirements for single-entry tourism visas will be relaxed to a quasi-exemption-equivalent level when applied via specified travel agencies.
Little Tokyo KIRIN ICHIBAN Beer Festival Event Report
It was clearly one of the must fun and most successful Sunday Fiestas ever, judging by the size of the crowd and the amount of food on display.
Little Tokyo Sunday Fiesta 2014: KIRIN ICHIBAN Beer Festival
Besides the great beer and food, there will also be musical performances and live comedy!
Japan Mulls Visa-Free Entry for Filipinos
In the meantime, Filipino tourists are still required to apply for a visa when travelling to Japan.
Japan’s Mega Potato Kaijus Its Way to Manila as BFF Fries
Now available in selected stores ala carte or as part of a set meal, it is possible that McDonald’s Philippines will expand availability to all stores soon. We hope :3
Japanese Classes Offered by UP Diliman Department of Linguistics for 2014
The Department of Linguistics, under the College of Social Science and Philosophy of the University of the Philippines Diliman Campus, is offering summer extramural classes in East Asian languages including Japanese.