Japan is Safety Country
Japan is definitely a land of opposites, often presenting conflicting images to visitors from the outside world who are trying ...
Japan is definitely a land of opposites, often presenting conflicting images to visitors from the outside world who are trying ...
One thing I like about running J-List is being able to help people be closer to Japan. One of my ...
The Season of the Sakura has come to Japan, and all throughout the country cherry trees are exploding like beautiful ...
"How are you?" If you've ever taught English as a Second Language in Japan then you know the correct answer ...
When I arrived in Japan, one of the concepts I had to get used to was joshiki (pronounced joe-sh'ki), a ...
My daughter is pretty smart. The other day I was getting on her case for watching too much YouTube at ...
It's interesting to see the random cultural tidbits you can pick up watching anime. Like the scene in K-On! in ...
Sometimes it's fun to flip through the channels late at night and see what wackiness Japanese television has for me. ...
Spring vacation has come to Japan, and as a parent this means I've got two teenagers under foot for the ...
Alcohol has historically played an important social role in Japan, and it's interesting to examine some of the customs that ...
J-List is a fun place where you can find everything from kanji T-shirts that say "Looking for a Japanese Girlfriend" ...
In the history of music there have been few performers quite like "Weird Al" Yankovic, who's been creating funny parodies ...
Japan has certainly had a unique history. Compared with most other nations, it got a late start, importing its writing ...
March is a time of many things in Japan. It's the dividing line between winter and spring, when people wonder ...
The Japanese use a great number of English words in their daily speech, often changing their nuances to fit a ...
The other day I was reading through random Wikipedia articles and I happened across the entry on Jonny Quest. For ...
One way to make sense of Japan is by understanding the concepts of wabi and sabi, two words which sum ...
Just a quick note by the way -- sometime soon we'll move the site from our server to Blogger's system, ...
It's interesting how Japanese society divides itself into different tribes, or zoku, which always seem to come with interesting and ...
When I arrived in Japan, I had to get used to many new things, like being the only gaijin at ...
When I was studying Japanese back in the 1980s, I had a real problem finding tools to help me learn, ...
I recently came across a blog post by an American who'd lived in Japan for several years, but who'd suddenly ...
Just about any aspect of Japan can provide an interesting cultural lesson, even names. In Japan, everyone has a family ...
The Academy Awards ceremony is closely followed in Japan, where it's kind of a combination of the Kohaku Red-and-White music ...