Shogi

Shogi, also known as Japanese chess, is a two-player strategy board game. Its earliest predecessor of the game, chaturanga, originated in India in the 6th century was brought to Japan where it spawned a number of variants. Two players, Sente (Black; more literally, person with the first move) and Gote (White; person with the second move), play on a board composed of rectangles in a grid of 9 ranks (rows) by 9 files (columns). The rectangles are undifferenti

My Neighbor Totoro is one of the best known Japanese animation movies of all time, and probably the best movie from its animation studio, Ghibli Studio. For most of us My Neighbor Totoro was our first Japanese animation movie, the one who introduced us to the Japanese animation, and in many cases the movie who awakened our interest. This beautiful story and one of its main characters, Totoro, that scary and at the same time cute monster, teach us to protect and love the mother nature.

Calling out to Nintendo players! Are you prepared to blast off to PNF-404 and help Olimar fix S.S. Dolphin to get back to Hocotate? Today we'd like to spread the word on Pikmin goods you can get here, at J-Subculture! If you're someone from the GameCube era, then you probably know about the game Pikmin. Even if you don't, you must have seen Olimar and his little plant friends here and there on the Nintendo Wii or 3DS. The Pikmin series offer a three-dimensional, real ti

【J-SUB Shop Product Introductions – Beauty & Health related Items】 High in demand also at our company, we introduce you to a very popular series of skincare products from Japan! In this article we talk about the basic skincare lines of HADALABO GOKUJUN Moisturizing Skin Care (肌研 極潤), HATOMUGI Skin Conditioner (ハトムギ化粧水), KIKUMASAMUNE Sake Skin Care (日本酒化粧水) & MUJI Sensitive Skin Care (MUJI 化粧水): These 4 brands are much appreciated in Japan. Since the skin of J