| Today’s topic is the “goukon” (or gokon, or gookon), a modern-traditional Japanese dating party. “Goukon” is short for “Gouryuu Konpa”. Gouryuu means to come together, or merge. Konpa is…
| It’s confirmed, we will be moving from our current location to a new, much larger, and far fancier school location during the first week of May. Directions to the…
| A couple of weeks ago, GenkiJACS made our inaugural trip to the conveniently located indoor snowboarding arena Big Air, part of the Bayside Place complex in Hakata Bay. A…
| As you might know, Fukuoka suffered a fairly major earthquake in March of last year, its first in a long long time (and hopefully its last!). They finally got…
| One of the teachers at our school recently had a baby, prompting us to think about some of the unique aspects of choosing names for infants in Japan. This…
| As a quick addition to our previous item about the Fukuoka 2016 Olympics bid, I thought I should post this photo, which tickled our collective funny-bone here. This is…
| One of the most interesting and flexible elements of Japanese is how verbs can be combined to create new words. In English, it’s quite rare for two verbs to…
| The new year is almost a quarter of the way done, but we finally managed to get our new year’s resolution done! GenkiJACS will donate 5% of all after-tax…
| It often takes foreigners in Japan a while to distinguish between the two ways of pronouncing the name of the country itself, “Nihon” and “Nippon”. First of all, they…