Search Result

緑茶 (ryokucha) or Japanese green tea, is the top kind of tea that is consumed in Japan. There are many known health benefits from drinking green tea. For a beautiful life, drinking green tea is highly recommended, compared to its other tea counterparts. What is green tea made of though? And how is drinking green tea good for you? Let us at J-Subculture elaborate.  Japanese green tea is made from the plant, チャノキ (chanoki), or Camellia sinensis. The image above is a picture of th

A popular must-do for Japanese-styled make up is putting on false eyelashes. Japanese people tend to have eyelashes that are fine and short. Since most Japanese people want to go for the dolly-eyed, anime-styled look of bigger, fuller eyes, many use false eyelashes when putting on their makeup. Putting on false eyelashes volumize one's eyes, producing a more open-eyed, brighter look. False eyelashes are a staple to "kawaii" make up and fashion. Depending on the type and color of the ey

  Nintendo is back with an extremely kawaii Yoshi game! Yoshi's Woolly World! Here's the link to Nintendo's YT vid that shows the cuteness of Yarn Yoshi: youtu.be/FhR77B6UoQ0 In this grand adventure, you can travel a whole new world that's completely made out of colorful yarn and patchwork! It's ridiculously adorable! The story goes like this.  Everything is peaceful on Craft Island...until Kamek comes and turns all the Yoshis into yarn! In order to put his fr

  らきすた or Lucky Star is the name of a Japanese manga, anime, and video game series. The manga was written by Kagami Yoshimizu. It was published in Kadokawa Shoten's Comptiq magazine since 2003 as comic strip manga. It was adapted into a 24-episode anime produced by Kyoto Animation in 2007, and a video game series was made through 2005 to 2009. It's mainly about the lives of four teenage girls who attend a Japanese high school. Starting from the far left, there's Tsukasa Hiiragi, Ko