Pouring your own beer in Japan, and what we could learn from the Japanese
You know you've lived in Japan too long when you're incapable of pouring your own beer. It's true -- in ...
You know you've lived in Japan too long when you're incapable of pouring your own beer. It's true -- in ...
My son has officially finished the third grade, and will be beginning his new adventure next month, at an experimental ...
Every few weeks my kids bug me to take them to the "ge-sen," or game center, and I give in ...
Japan is the land of the "boom." One year it's health drinks laced with amino acids, the next it's ring ...
Hello again from Japan! Today is a holiday here, Shunbun no Hi, or the first day of spring. It's nice ...
Hello again from Japan, the home of such products as Mapple (map book), Crunky (crunchy chocolate) and Quickle Wiper (floor ...
One unique aspect of Japan is how many industries have to deal with competition from the government, which interferes with ...
Today is White Day, the day that Japanese confectioners and retailers have decreed that men give a return gift (o-kaeshi) ...
The month of March means different things to different people. In Japan it's a time of partings (wakare no kisetsu), ...
One of our favorite Japanese TV shows is Trivia no Izumi (the Fountain of Trivia, a title that sounds similar ...
We woke up to a world of white this morning, as the Kanto area (the flat plain where Tokyo is ...
There are two types of universities in Japan, public (operated on a national or prefectural level) and private, and as ...