Thoughts on biculturalism and Halloween, types of ramen you should try, and my fascination with Japanese females
Happy Halloween from J-List. Halloween is one of those "American" holidays (although originally Irish and Scottish) that has a way ...
Happy Halloween from J-List. Halloween is one of those "American" holidays (although originally Irish and Scottish) that has a way ...
Well, what everyone feared has come to pass: the chain of English schools called NOVA has gone, well, nova, officially ...
You probably know that the Japanese take their shoes off when they enter a house. Shoes are considered to be ...
Is teen heart-throb Zac Efron, the so-called "next Brad Pitt," an otaku? That's the question asked in a Japanese magazine ...
Sometimes it's fun to notice the little differences between Japan and the U.S., like the way packaging of products is ...
Sometimes it can seem that the Japanese use of creative English is totally random. I mean, how can you quantify ...
Every language is constantly evolving, and while the English major in me isn't always happy about the LOLification of my ...
Perceptions are funny things, and it's surprising how easily they can be wrong. One day a student of mine asked ...
First, we apologize for an outage on the J-List and JBOX.com websites, which was caused by a bad router at ...
Living in a foreign country means more than just learning that country's language. It also means subtly taking the local ...
Strangely enough, you can learn a lot about Japan through its first and second person pronouns: there are several of ...
I was once asked if the Japanese eat any flavors of ice cream other than Green Tea. The answer, of ...
The other day my wife asked me what a "window-breaker" was. I assumed she was asking about a type of ...
"You've been in Japan too long when you 'teach' someone your phone number." Of course, we all use different words ...