Living in Japan and changes in your native language, of Golden Week and flying carp, and a “Gaijin Battle” on Japanese TV
Living in Japan means adapting to many things, not the least of which is modifying your native language. When I ...
Living in Japan means adapting to many things, not the least of which is modifying your native language. When I ...
One social engine at work in Japan is that of "obligation," essentially the knowing of what's expected of you and ...
The Japanese are very good at taking outside culture and adapting it to fit their own needs, and they have ...
One of the more interesting aspects of Japan is the top-down nature of its society, how it's ostensibly structured in ...
If you want to get married on the cheap in Japan, I suggest you do it on Butsumetsu ("Buddha's Death"), ...
As part of my son's homework, he keeps a diary about the past day's events, alternating entries between Japanese and ...
We've been in "buy a car" mode for the past few weeks, driving around to various dealers to see their ...
I attended a Japanese funeral over the weekend, after when the father of a friend passed away at the age ...
Anyone who's ever worked in a Japanese organization for any length of time probably knows the frustration of having a ...
The word banzai is one of the most well-known Japanese phrases in the West, up there with geisha, samurai, ninja ...
The local cell phone industry has been turned on its ear by the news that Europe's Vodafone was quitting the ...
When you spend many hours focusing on something, whether it's building a model train set or learning a foreign language, ...
Chinese New Year is going on right now, and throughout Asia people are celebrating the cultural holiday. Although Japan switched ...
The Torino Olympics have been going on for two weeks, and Japanese fans have been eagerly watching all the events ...
Hello again from Japan, where the zipper in your pants is known as the "window of society" (shakai no mado).As ...
No study of pop Japanology can be complete without exploring the twin concepts of giri and ninjo (義理と人情), which crop ...
Japan is the land of the "boom," and you never know when some new thing is going to come out ...
One of the more amazing aspects of the Japanese is how aware they are of popular American brands. When my ...
Japan is numbly watching the aftermath of the sad events at Virginia Tech as they unfold. Much like Europe, it's ...
Japan can be such a funny place. You could be going along, minding your own business when suddenly, bam, the ...
Hello again from Japan where getting your hair colored is known as a "hair manicure."For some reason, one of the ...
Although the Japanese generally study six years of English (or up to ten if they take it in college), they're ...
Japan takes its baseball seriously, and right now the whole country is closely watching Daisuke Matsuzaka as he starts his ...
Television (which turns 80 today) in Japan can be quite entertaining, and sometimes its fun to sit back on the ...