Tipping in Japan
Japan is unique among industrialized nations in that the concept of tipping never caught on, and is in fact about ...
Japan is unique among industrialized nations in that the concept of tipping never caught on, and is in fact about ...
Sometimes Japan seems to be a terribly dysfunctional place. Changing leaders every few months and building the Panama Canal worth ...
Autumn is here, and that means the return of nikuman (niku-mahn), those delicious Chinese steamed buns that they sell in ...
J-List is happy to announce the start of chocolate season for 2010-2011! As you probably know, we're forced to remove ...
There was an unfortunate helicopter accident on Japan's scenic island of Yakushima yesterday in which two crew members lost their ...
Over the weekend I had the sad job of paying a final visit to my wife's uncle Kumakichi, who's in ...
The other day my son had a holiday from school, so I took him to one of our favorite restaurants ...
As with Europe, Japan has had a long history which has left its mark on cities today. Most of Japan's ...
There are certain skills the Japanese people possess, which we poor gaijin usually lack. Like the ability to sit for ...
J-List loves Japanese snacks, gum and drinks, and we stock hundreds, including fun anime-themed items like the UCC Coffee + ...
J-List specializes in awesome magazines from Japan, and our popular Revolving Magazine Subscriptions service -- which lets you get your ...
Everyone knows that the Japanese use Chinese characters, or kanji, as part of their writing system, but since kanji are ...
China and Japan are in the middle of a diplomatic spat after a Chinese fishing boat collided with a Japan ...
Being back in Japan means getting accustomed to driving here again. Like the U.K., Australia and New Zealand, Japan drives ...
J-List always stocks hundreds of awesome Japanese bento boxes for you, like the classic Hello Kitty traditional bento box, or ...
One thing I like about learning a foreign language like Japanese is the way it helps you to learn how ...
One of the more popular anime series from the 1980s was the Lovely Angels, I mean Dirty Pair, the story ...
A few updates ago I mentioned Saitama, the Japanese prefecture that's been made semi-famous as the home of Crayon Shin-chan, ...
Every year J-List brings you hundreds of awesome Japanese calendars, and we're in full "calendar mode" right now, loaded with ...
Well, I've made the hop from the U.S. over to Japan, a journey of about 24 hours from door to ...
Japan's political world got a little more interesting than usual this week as Democratic Party of Japan kingmaker Ichiro Ozawa ...
One thing I love about the Japanese is their tendency towards obsession. Whether it's collecting and displaying anime figures, filling ...
Amazingly, I am actually headed back to Japan after three months spent in San Diego doing various important family and ...
It's interesting having kids who are half Japanese and half American, and my wife and I put quite a lot ...