Foreign accents and how they work in Japan, daylight savings time in Japan, and the joy of root beer
A recent commercial featured a voice saying, nihon-jin wa urusai! which means that Japanese are loud and obnoxious and fussy. ...
A recent commercial featured a voice saying, nihon-jin wa urusai! which means that Japanese are loud and obnoxious and fussy. ...
Last weekend my son and I decided to stop by Aeon, a sprawling American-style shopping mall that recently opened near ...
When you come to a place like Japan, it's always best to check your cultural preconceptions at the door and ...
One social problem that's being talked about more and more in Japan is hikikomori (hee-kee-KOH-MOH-ree, 引きこもり), a Japanese term that ...
Japan is a land of conflicting themes, of high tech phones and glittering gadgets alongside abandoned pachinko parlors and that ...
Japan is a big fan of naming special days to create awareness about things we take for granted, like Sweet ...
Many people first experience Japan through its animation, which has been a staple of entertainment here since Astro Boy was ...
Hello again from Japan, where it's believed that only good things happen on Friday the 13th. There was a lot ...
I talked last time about the invisible lines drawn between the three social groups in a Japanese school or organization, ...
Japan is buzzing about North Korea's reported underground nuclear test, which took place a few hours ago. The news comes ...
Yesterday was time for my annual top-to-bottom physical, called Ningen Dock, a name that implies a human (ningen) "drydock" where ...
I've often thought that there are some really good ideas in Japan that the rest of the world could learn ...
Time was, people would go to the Akihabara (ah-ki-HAH-bah-rah, meaning "field of autumn leaves") area of Tokyo to buy some ...