Monthly Archive for March, 2007

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Spirits of the State: Japan’s Yasukuni Shrine

Published on March 8, 2007 in History, Japan and Media. 0 Comments

Has anybody seen this? Too bad it’s not available in Germany.

Films Media Group – Spirits of the State: Japan’s Yasukuni Shrine

The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog

Published on March 7, 2007 in Curiosa and WWW. 0 Comments

Ever wondered why this sentence is used in typewriting software? I just found out (bless Google and Wikipedia), it’s a pangram: All letters of the English alphabet are used in it. Franz jagt im komplett verwahrlosten Taxi quer durch Bayern is the most famous German pendant, but it’s not a real pangram (i.e. the Umlauts are missing). In Japan, it’s the iroha-song. Korea…?

Pangram

顔文字の歴史

Published on March 6, 2007 in Curiosa and WWW. 0 Comments

For the curious of mind, the history of smileys in Japanese:

顔文字の歴史