Syuhei Inoue

Finding My Japanese

At the Kirby Café Tokyo
At the Kirby Café Tokyo

Kirby Café

Kirby’s café in Tokyo takes the Kirby Nintendo game world and turns it into a real-life experience. The entire place is designed like Kirby’s universe – from the decor to the music.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

転んでも七回、八回目に立ち上がれ – “Fall seven times, stand up eight.”

Silence as Grammar: What Japanese Leaves Unsaid

The unsaid, in Japanese, is not absence. It is the most carefully chosen word of all.