An Order of Pizza and Japanese Culture
Today is Inventory Day here at J-List, when we have to count the many thousands of excellent products we stock. ...
Today is Inventory Day here at J-List, when we have to count the many thousands of excellent products we stock. ...
Manga is the name given to Japanese comic books, although most people over the age of 35 or so will ...
No work is ever created in a vacuum, and everything is constantly being influenced by everything else. Every time I ...
There are some big differences between how elections work in Japan compared to the U.S. Because Japan uses a British-style ...
When learning Japanese, I found myself fascinated by words or phrases that were completely unlike what existed in English. For ...
Do you know the story of Toire no Hanako-san, or Miss Hanako of the Toilet? It's a Japanese urban legend ...
When you study a language like Japanese, you learn many rules that make up the grammar, like the unique particles ...
It's time for another installment of Wacky Japanese You Already Know, featuring Japanese words that happen to be homophones with ...
History has been made in the Sumo Wrestling world with the victory of Bulgarian wrestler Kotooshu (koh-toh-OH-shu), the first time ...
In Japan, there are often concepts that are difficult for Westerners to grasp. One measurement of beauty here is related ...
Learning a foreign language is good for reasons beyond the obvious benefit of being able to communicate and share ideas ...
One of the first things you learn as a foreigner in Japan is that people here will assume you're intimately ...
If you've ever visited Japan, you've probably answered the call of nature at some point, and seen the famous TOTO ...
One of my favorite anime/manga series is Genshiken, an exploration of the deeper aspects of anime, manga and related culture ...
I write often about how harmonious Japan appears to foreigners living here. Seen from our special position as outsiders (which ...
An interesting aspect of Japanese polite grammar is the honorific "o" that goes in front of some words to give ...
I saw a report that said Americans throw away an average of 27% of available food, an unfortunate reality in ...
World War II officially ended 63 years ago with the surrender of Japan, but the legacy of the war isn't ...
Japan is preparing to host the 34th G8 Summit, to be held at beautiful Lake Toya in Hokkaido this July. ...
Living in Japan, it's always interesting to observe the various "when worlds collide" moments that come along every once in ...
Visitors to Japan will encounter many strange and wonderful sights, from thousand-year-old temples and five-stories pagodas to vending machines that ...
"Even monkeys fall from trees." This is one of the many bits of wisdom you can glean by studying Japanese ...
When you flit between the U.S. and Japan a lot, you can sometimes find yourself coming unglued culturally. I was ...
There was a bizarre Japanese TV show that was on a few years back called OH! Mikey, in which an ...