Please Have a Safe and Happy New Year
Today is New Year's Eve, known in Japan by the odd-sounding name of o-miso-ka, which sounds like it means "Big ...
Today is New Year's Eve, known in Japan by the odd-sounding name of o-miso-ka, which sounds like it means "Big ...
As December draws to a close, Japan is getting ready for Oshogatsu (New Year's Day), by far the most important ...
Although I sometimes wish otherwise, my personality can be a little on the sarcastic side. For example, if I saw ...
Moé (pronounced mo-EH) is one of the primary concepts driving much of the anime world today, essentially occupying an entire ...
Tokyo is a large and complex place. Many areas of the city are famous for different things, like Akihabara for ...
Japan's capital city of Tokyo is a sprawling mass of concrete, asphalt and steel that holds 35 million people in ...
On Christmas Eve Japanese television viewers got to see a rare historical drama in which internationally famous director and comedian ...
Oops, one more post to the blog only. It's being reported that Ai Iijima, the former adult actress who pretty ...
T'was the night before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, except at J-List, where we're ...
Today is the 50th anniversary of one of Japan's most famous sights: Tokyo Tower, which serves as the primary broadcasting ...
After Christmas comes Oshogatsu, or New Year's, a very special time in Japan. While January 1st is usually spent relaxing ...
I've always been a huge fan of Christmas, and when the season approaches you can always see me with a ...
Christmas is nearly here, and throughout Japan children are looking forward to getting a present from "Santa-san" while guys plan ...
Today is a special day for Domo-kun, the super-cute Japanese monster character who's become so popular throghout the Internet: it's ...
Tonight is J-List's bonenkai (boh-NEN-KAI), or Year End Party, a big tradition in any company in Japan. Literally meaning "Forget ...
It's well known that bowing is something done in Japan as a greeting or to express respect or apology. There ...
With the economy in the doldrums in Japan, people here are buckling down as they wait for the recession to ...
I talked a couple weeks ago about how the Japanese language lacks definite and indefinite articles like "a" and "the" ...
The Japanese have a reputation for being innovative and coming up with new ways to make everyone's life a little ...
Of all the aspects of Japan I had to get used to when I came here, the educational system was ...
If you went to the supermarket recently, you might have picked up some cereal and put it in your cart. ...
When I was six years old, I lived in New Zealand for a year. Besides falling in love with something ...
Each year the organization that publishes the Standardized Kanji Test announces the "kanji of the year," the single character that ...
Today's interesting word of Japanese is guuzen (GOO-zen), which means "coincidence." I don't know why, but there seems to be ...