How many words for “rice” do the Japanese have?
There are many large and small challenges you encounter when learning Japanese. For example, it's difficult being at peace with ...
There are many large and small challenges you encounter when learning Japanese. For example, it's difficult being at peace with ...
I wrote last time about how living in Japan puts you in tune with the system of senpai and kohai, ...
I've always been amazed at how expressive the Japanese can be, whether they're inventing new English words to describe products ...
Before I started J-List, I worked as an ESL teacher, sharing my native language with Japanese students. One Friday, an ...
One thing I really like about being so involved with Japanese popular culture is the global nature of it, how ...
When you live in a place like Japan, you never know what cultural wrinkles you'll discover next. Maybe you'll stick ...
One word that comes up in anime a lot is gambaru (gahn-BAH-roo, alternately written ganbaru, in Japanese 頑張る), a happy, ...
Strange things can happen to foreigners who live in Japan for too long. They might watch TV while drinking beer ...
As the Internet Age marches on, the ongoing LOLification of my native language often has me saying WTF? even though ...
With a sentence structure and grammar unlike anything used in the West along with three different writing systems, learning the ...
When I was growing up, I remember thinking that they had arranged marriages in Japan, probably something I got from ...
Living in Japan can bring you into contact with concepts that may be difficult to wrap your mind around. While ...
Japan is a country that likes to embrace new things, and whatever new and bizarre trend comes along, J-List will ...
There was a minor dust-up on the Internets in Japan this week after the government suggested that it might add ...
The J-List staff had fun at our New Year's Party on Friday, and afterwards we engaged in that famous Japanese ...
I'm rushing to finish this update a little early since tonight we're having the J-List Shin-nen Kai, or New Year's ...
The other day I came home from work to spend some time with the kids, and I suggested popping a ...
Right now it's juken (test) season in Japan, when hundreds of thousands of high school students take the university entrance ...
Have you ever noticed that when two groups occupy a similar space, rivalries emerge? Whether you're talking about Mac vs ...
Spend a little time in front of a TV in Japan and you'll see more than a few interesting "talents" ...
It's natural for the Japanese to be more skilled at some things than folks in the U.S. or Europe. For ...
One of the defining features of the Japanese as a people is that they are generally kenson (KEN-son), that is, ...
Without a doubt, one of the big barriers to learning Japanese are the kanji, the Chinese characters that communicate meaning ...
On Sunday I took my son into Tokyo to check out an exhibition on robots at the National Science Museum, ...