Of Sake, Eggs and Spring Onions: Being Sick in Japan
I've been feeling a bit under the weather over the past few days, apparently having caught my daughter's cold. After ...
I've been feeling a bit under the weather over the past few days, apparently having caught my daughter's cold. After ...
If you visit the Lumine Man department store in Shibuya you'll find something pretty cool: a huge display of Evangelion ...
Rushing this update out a bit today, since the J-List crew is going out to an izakaya for the official ...
J-List carries thousands of fun items from Japan, including awesome snacks, fun dating-sim games, wacky Japanese T-shirts and DVDs and ...
I still remember my first day of Japanese class back at SDSU, when our teacher taught us one of the ...
When you first start to watch anime, you naturally encounter concepts that seem strange. Like those funny blue lines that ...
On the weekends I like to go on trips with my family, most often to an onsen (volcanic hot springs) ...
We continue to make improvements to the J-List site based on customer feedback (thanks!). Today we've reworked the customer account ...
Like many Japanese families, my wife's parents live with us in one big house, occupying the lower floor while we ...
Japan's first Hooters location opens today in Tokyo, and the Japanese Internets are buzzing about the new restaurant, where food ...
Last week I went into Tokyo on a buying trip to look for extra-cool products for the coming Christmas season, ...
One of the themes I write about often is the Japanese idea of joshiki, translatable as the knowledge that every ...
I'm a big fan of the anime and manga High School of the Dead, a story about a group of ...
Although I enjoy all manner of Japanese foods from sushi to sashimi to oyako-don (literally, "parent-and-child rice bowl" consisting of ...
The word otaku has come to represent the culture both in Japan and around the world of embracing awesomely nerdy ...
My son continues his juken studies, preparing for the difficult high school entrance exams he'll be taking early next year. ...
The Japanese language is very expressive, and there are some interesting phrases one encounters from time to time, which I ...
Today happens to be the 19th anniversary of my arrival in Japan, and this seemed like a good opportunity to ...
There's trouble brewing in China again as demonstrators in several cities protested against Japanese businesses, smashing the windshields of Japanese ...
Every gaijin living in Japan has a personal relationship with Kyoto, the beautiful city that served as Japan's capital for ...
One of the more interesting classes I took back at SDSU was a course on screenplay writing, which sought to ...
I noticed that Japan had been officially ranked 97th in gender equality by the World Economic Forum, comparing to the ...
One thing about learning a foreign language like Japanese: words don't always match up neatly, and it's not uncommon to ...
I recently noticed a flyer for an interesting literary club in my neighborhood called the Tale of Genji Research Circle. ...