What Color is the Sun?
Sometimes something as simple as color can illustrate interesting cultural differences. If I asked you what color the sun was, ...
Sometimes something as simple as color can illustrate interesting cultural differences. If I asked you what color the sun was, ...
The Japanese are good at coming up with innovative ways of committing information to memory. Like the man who memorized ...
Over the years, I've made various observations about the care and feeding of Japanese females based on my own personal ...
You never know when Japanese customs will catch you off guard. When our kids were born, I insisted on being ...
Japanese advertisers are a creative bunch of people, good at coming up with new and interesting ways to get consumers ...
My son and I are loving the new Evangelion 2.22 movie, which is a real joy to watch, especially in ...
J-List carries the iTunes Japan prepaid cards, which are an awesome way to get access to the latest JPOP, anime ...
It's funny how words move from one language group to another in this hyper-connected world we live in. Like the ...
One of my favorite foods is sushi, and when someone in our family has a birthday, we often send out ...
Well, Lost has finally ended, and I have to say thanks to the producers and cast for one wild wide. ...
Sometimes when we add new products to the J-List website, we've got a pretty good idea they might be popular ...
Ogenki desu ka? This is one of the first phrases a student of Japanese encounters, and it corresponds to the ...
I recently passed by a restaurant I'd not been near for a while, and found myself doing a double take: ...
I saw a news report on the BBC's website the other day about the challenges Japan faces as its population ...
My daughter's mid-term tests are coming up soon, so she's been studying to prepare for them. Although she can recite ...
Today I went to the convenience store to grab one of those pre-made microwavable bento lunches. After choosing a "hamburg" ...
Perhaps my favorite aspect of anime and manga is the way they allow fans to access various emotions, from boy-meets-moe ...
Japan can be such a funny place. You could be going along, minding your own business when suddenly, bam, the ...
I got my iPad from the U.S., and am currently having fun with it. I was really trying to avoid ...
Do you need anything cool from Japan right now? The reason we ask is, we're having our special End of ...
I write a lot about how Japanese names work, since they're quite different from names in Western languages. Japanese people ...
One of the joys of being a long-term gaijin in Japan is eventually building a house here. Houses in Japan ...
The other day my wife had a surprise for us: Mexican tacos, which were certainly more welcome than the local ...
Before I started J-List, I had a career as a teacher of eikaiwa or English conversation. In Japan there's a ...