Tag Archives: Research Article

I selected the best freely available English-language sources on Halloween in Japan to learn about its growing popularity there in recent years.

When you see an odd-looking bug inside your building for about five consecutive days, there is only one thing to do (after repeatedly forgetting). It’s time to be a hero.

Good news about the availability and accessability of a freeware visual novel that we covered here at The New Leaf Journal.

With the help of an open source Adobe Flash emulator called Ruffle, we take a look at the original Flash version of a Japanese visual novel called Gogatsu no Sora (localized for al|together 2008 as May Sky).

I consult original English sources to get to the bottom of the meaning and history of Japan’s ai ai gasa (“love umbrella”).

The most difficult part of my al|together visual novel review project was finding what I needed to run Midsummer Haze…

Calvin Coolidge described seeing then-President Benjamin Harrison speak when Coolidge was in college. I decided to find the story of Harrison’s 1891 orations in Bennington, Vermont.

Was Just Dance 2020 really the last Nintendo Wii game? It depends on where you look.

A long post with original accounts from the May 24, 1883 opening of the Brooklyn Bridge.

The Peekier search tool, once reviewed by The New Leaf Journal, is no more (or so the fact it redirects to Kagi suggests).

Contrary to EGM’s 2002 April Fools claims, Sonic and Tails were not, in fact, in SSB Melee (but they may have almost been)

A stream of consciousness about anime romances that highlight big height/size differences (and office anime rom-coms too).