The General Japanese Traditional of Nostalgia
I wrote before about how, in the complex world of obsessive otaku culture in Japan, there are (for example) fans ...
I wrote before about how, in the complex world of obsessive otaku culture in Japan, there are (for example) fans ...
One thing you learn about Japan pretty quickly is, what a seasonal place it is, with people doing different things ...
Between studying Japanese for four years at SDSU and living here for 17, I've pretty much got the Japanese language ...
I took a day off yesterday to attend the official Firefox 3.0 launch party in Tokyo, which celebrated the historic ...
There are some words that the Japanese seem doomed to have problems with, due to the fact that their language ...
The most successful motor vehicle in history isn't the Toyota Corolla, and it's isn't the Ford F-Series pickup, or even ...
As an American living in Japan, I know how surprised Japanese can get when foreigners internalize the society around them ...
The terrible rise in suicides in Japan (more than 33,000 last year) has everyone talking about what can be done ...
Japan has started a new initiative to fight fat using the buzzword metabo, short for metabolic syndrome, a polite way ...
For some reason, living in Japan robs a person of the ability to open the hood of their car. When ...
It's still drizzling in Japan, as rainy season continues dumping an extra helping of precipitation on the Japanese islands. This ...
There's a new tree set to start growing in Tokyo, all the way up to the sky. It's called Tokyo ...
One interesting aspect of education in Japan is how students face competition in many forms which helps make them better ...
The iPhone is finally coming to Japan, and I'll certainly be in line to get one when they become available ...
I like to read sci-fi novels with mind-bogglingly big ideas in them. One series I enjoyed was the Uplift Saga ...
Are you ticklish? My kids certainly are, and I only have to move my hands towards them in a threatening ...
In the Japanese version of Wii Sports Golf, a player who gets his ball onto the green is rewarded with ...
One of the most important concepts in daily life in Japan is shinyo (SHIN-yo), which means "trust," and when Japanese ...
Like many other Japanese men, my father-in-law likes baseball. I mean, he really likes Baseball, so much that he'll watch ...
Many industrialized countries are battling falling birthrates, as human societies change and shift. The numbers of babies born per female ...
Sunday nights at our house is time for Chibi Maruko-chan (Little Maruko), one of the most popular anime shows in ...
Doujinshi are the fan-created comic-books which have become a huge sub-culture here in Japan. The word literally means "same-person-magazine" and ...
So picture this. Suddenly you get a phone call, and a young voice says, "It's me, it's me," as if ...
Last time I talked about the Ainu, the original inhabitants of the Japanese islands going back to the stone age. ...