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Everyone knows that rice is the staple food of the Japanese, and it really is -- we eat it 2-3 ...
Everyone knows that rice is the staple food of the Japanese, and it really is -- we eat it 2-3 ...
One of the things I like about the iPhone 3G I use in Japan is now it updates itself with ...
I saw that Toshiba recently won a special award for its JW-10 Word Processor, a breakthrough product that allowed the ...
I have the most interesting car: when I start it in the morning, it greets me with ohayo gozaimasu (good ...
Japan is experiencing a big increase in its birthrate...of dogs, that is. While Japan's rate of human births continues to ...
First of all, we've done a nice redesign of the J-List and JBOX.com websites, improving the look of the graphics ...
There are many important milestones that a foreigner trying to master Japanese will face. Ordering in a restaurant for the ...
On Sunday we had ourselves an early (and partially Costco-enabled) Thanksgiving, since Thursday is rather a difficult day to take ...
The biggest news in Japan these days has been the murder of a former Vice Minister of Health and Welfare ...
Over the weekend we had a bit of an adventure: we made a trip to a Japanese Costco, the membership ...
One of the themes of being an American living in Japan is discovering how much the country has taken various ...
There's no doubt about it: the most complex part of learning Japanese is kanji, unless you're fortunate enough to already ...
What if you met a Japanese person who went around telling "knock knock" jokes in English all the time? It ...
The Chinese writing system, kanji, is an inseperable part of the Japanese language, the same way Latin or Greek is ...
If you go to Tokyo's Shibuya Station right now you can see an incredible piece of art created by late ...
Clang clang! Clang clang! Right outside my window right there's a fire truck driving by slowly, ringing a bell and ...
Recently my kids took the Eiken Test, the primary standardized test of English used in Japan. They really dislike it ...
In Japanese politics, as elsewhere, certain words or phrases get permanently attached to politicians. When Shinzo Abe came into office ...
As with other countries, there are many foreigners living and working in Japan, each contributing to society in different ways. ...
Naturally, the Japanese that's taught in textbooks isn't always the most natural-sounding, and I remember being frustrated by some of ...
One of the more enjoyable aspects of living in Japan is discovering strange English, which is literally everywhere since the ...
When I first got to Japan, I had plenty of culture shock related to automobiles. Cars are very important to ...
When the Japanese think of Georgia, they naturally think of Georgia coffee, the brand of canned coffee made with the ...
Like many people in Japan, I am a furo-bito, or a person who likes taking baths in natural hot springs. ...