Little Things About Japan
When a foreigner first comes to live in Japan, there are many small things they'll notice. Ceramic roof tiles on ...
When a foreigner first comes to live in Japan, there are many small things they'll notice. Ceramic roof tiles on ...
Like many families in Japan, we live with my wife's parents in a niseitai jutaku, or "two household-home," meaning that ...
Miu, Riko and their new sister, Kokoko. It's a regular Three Sisters' Story.
There are interesting ways to gain an understanding of a society through its language. Two words that speak to Japan's ...
I recently talked about Buddhism and how many of Japan's customs are tied to the religion, sometimes without people being ...
Japan is in a state of shock over the death of a pregnant mother after she was turned away from ...
We never think about idioms in our own language, but to non-native speakers, learning the meanings of phrases like "to ...
I love getting a haircut in Japan. The barber shop I use rents space inside a lobby of a large ...
America's election is almost here, and the whole world is watching, including the Japanese, who get regular reports from the ...
Stereotypes are not good since they cause us to make assumptions about people from other countries before we've gotten to ...
Like most questions related to Japan, religion is complex and interesting. The major religion of Japan is Buddhism, distributed among ...
Today marks an interesting 10-year anniversary: the first legal performance of a Japanese song in South Korea, when singer Tomoe ...
The other day my son and I were watching an NHK documentary on penguins and elephant seals living on King ...
My wife came into my office the other day holding the latest copy of Newsweek (the Japanese version) that contained ...
Would you like to learn to speak Japanese fluently? If so then you want to become pera pera, an odd ...
sushi, sashimi, and udon or soba when you think of food in Japan, people here have an incredibly rich and ...
The Arabic number system used in the West is based on 1,000, but the kanji-derived number system used in Japan ...
One of the minor challenges for a foreigner living in Japan is getting used to sitting on the floor a ...
One concept you eventually bump into when studying about Japan is nihonjinron (nee-HONE-JEEN-rone), a word which literally means "theories on ...
Part of mastering a foreign language involves coming up with strategies that help you trick your brain into learning. In ...
Japan continues to have problems with a type of fraud known as furikome sagi (translatable as "Transfer the Money Now!" ...
You've been in Japan too long when you get a nihongo ga jozu and feel really insulted. It's an odd ...
I talked last time about how some work-related terms like "office lady" (OL) and "career woman" are used to differentiate ...
A nation is defined by several factors, including language, geography and politics, but also by its shared mythology. In America ...