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Because I only visit the U.S. once or twice a year, I'm always noticing things I might not otherwise. It's ...
Because I only visit the U.S. once or twice a year, I'm always noticing things I might not otherwise. It's ...
Every summer, we arrange to have our kids spend some time in the U.S. to help them learn English and ...
As a long-time anime fan, it's been interesting to see how the characters in anime and dating-sim games change and ...
Well, I'm back in Japan, having journeyed halfway around the world for the nth time. Even while still at the ...
Back when I was teaching English, I found it interesting to observe how my students perceived my own native language. ...
One of the more unexpected aspects of living in Japan as an American is the presence of political posters for ...
One of the coolest images of Japan, to me, are the Daruma, the unique red, roundish dolls that are quite ...
Well, the party's over, and the San Diego Comicon is finished for another year. We had a huge amount of ...
We're deep in it at the San Diego Comicon ('scuze me, Comic-Con International, whatever) in our booth (#129), meeting and ...
It's always interesting to compare the differences between Japan and the U.S. In America, many products like Coca-Cola, Dr. Pepper, ...
I like living in Japan, really I do, but there are some frustrations a poor gaijin must endure. Things you ...
Osaka is Japan's second largest city, with 17 million people living in the greater metropolitan Osaka-Kyoto-Kobe area. The city is ...
In my American kitchen right now I've got no less than seven boxes of cereal sitting on top of the ...
Back when I was learning Japanese, I distinctly remember thinking to myself that the Speedo swimsuit company had to be ...
Big changes are in store for Japan's schools: the end of yutori kyoiku, translatable as "easy-does-it education," when Japan's Ministry ...
Like most countries, Japan is struggling with the desire to be more "green" in order to reduce pollution and the ...
If you've listened to spoken Japanese at all you've probably heard the word desu, often pronounced with the last syllable ...
I mentioned last time that Japan has very few lawyers. It's true -- there's just one lawyer for every 7325 ...
I saw that super-cute Japanse idol/actress/singer Yuko Ogura (age 24) has been awarded the prestigious (?) First Gravure Idol Award ...
Whenever I'm in the U.S., I find myself doing things in a slightly more Japanese way, just as I'm not ...
There are many good things about being in the U.S., like being able to order a taco without getting octopus, ...
My wife and I are raising our kids to be bilingual in English and Japanese, and it's interesting to observe ...
We certainly had fun in Las Vegas, enjoying some quality down time. On the way back to San Diego, our ...
Groups are, of course, extremely important to human beings, since you can't have much of a society without them. The ...