Kawaii Crafts from Japan
We like to call J-List "a wonderful toybox of things from Japan," and we do have an awful lot of ...
We like to call J-List "a wonderful toybox of things from Japan," and we do have an awful lot of ...
I often talk about the various unique aspects of Japanese, in part because I just think languages are cool, but ...
Ever since the Internet showed up, our lives have been greatly enriched by companies offering amazing services, like YouTube or ...
When you watch anime, you open yourself up to a culture that's very different from the West, and it's not ...
There are many approaches to learning language, including the Grammar-Translation Method, which involves formal learning and lots of translation, the ...
I once had a friend with an old car that leaked oil, so that whenever he wanted to drive somewhere ...
There are some things you say when you live in Japan that you'd certainly never utter back home. For example, ...
J-List loves to bring you unexpected things from Japan, which we've come to call Wacky Things from Japan™, and any ...
Over the summer I had a lot of fun taking my son to Hakodate, the city on the southern tip ...
When I came to Japan, I naturally expected to find foods like ramen, udon, tempura and sushi, but when I ...
This weekend my wife is in South Korea, where she'll eat delicious food, get a Korean massage and do some ...
There are many reasons that Japanese animation has grown popular in nearly every corner of the world, including the uniqueness ...
Although the Japanese have developed quite a taste for coffee in recent years, green tea is still very popular here, ...
When a person learns a foreign language they actually develop a second personality, which takes over when they're speaking that ...
This year is the 100th year of the birth of Osamu Dazai, one of the major Japanese writers of the ...
It's funny how we're all wired to perceive things a certain way, depending on what culture we come from. When ...
Halloween is right around the corner, but there's still time for you to order an awesome complete cosplay set from ...
The unceremonious ending of several major public works projects by the recently elected Democratic Party of Japan has been a ...
During my time in Japan, I've been able to observe some of the more interesting traits of the females around ...
Another tragedy struck the anime world, with the news that Kazuhiko Kato, the composer of the "Do You Remember Love?" ...
At J-List, we like to encourage interest in learning Japanese, since it's such a rewarding language to study whether you're ...
Japan has had a culture of bathing in public baths and natural volcanic hot springs for centuries, and I've really ...
It's interesting how each of us has a set of special "cultural buttons" which bring up different images when pressed. ...
I often write about how Japan is a homogeneous place in which 99% of the people consider themselves to be ...