Western Names in Kanji
One area of Japan gaijin are often fascinated with is the way kanji names work. While foreign names are generally ...
One area of Japan gaijin are often fascinated with is the way kanji names work. While foreign names are generally ...
One thing about Japan: they love vending machines. There are more of them here than any other country on Earth ...
The 49th "Taiga Drama" -- the big budget jidai geki period drama put on by Japan's public broadcasting network NHK ...
There are some interesting things to be found on Japanese TV, like a show in which a comedian goes into ...
The rapid changes brought by the Internet have forced just about every industry to adapt. Anime is no different, and ...
Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of the suicide death of one of the most enigmatic Japanese men in recent history, ...
I wrote recently about how the Japanese use the katakana writing system to phonetically represent foreign place names like "Grand ...
I continue to enjoy Amagami SS, the anime series based on a PS2 dating-sim game that probably best defines the ...
Things I love about Japan: buying a hot can of coffee or corn pottage and drinking it on the train ...
In accordance with the Treaty of San Francisco, I'm required to blog about certain core Japan-related concepts every year or ...
The next time you're in the village of Ayukawa in Yamagata Prefecture in northern Japan, you might want to go ...
Harry Potter fans are going wild over the new film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I, which opened ...
Back when I was in college I visited the Grand Canyon, and happened to see a poster advertising an IMAX ...
When a foreigner comes to Japan, they usually try to catalog and analyize all the strange things they see, but ...
One thing you have to understand about the Japanese is, they like lists, such as the Three Beautiful Sights of ...
I was recently asked by one of my Twitter users if, after living in Japan for nearly two decades, I ...
When you use a foreign language every day, it's a no-brainer you're going to find yourself in a situation where ...
In Japan, they have a fun custom around New Year's where stores sealed fuku-bukuro ("lucky bags") filled with unknown contents ...
Cell phones have been a big part of life in Japan ever since they went mainstream in the mid 1990s, ...
There are a lot of good things about living in Japan. Good food, from sushi to sashimi to Indian curry. ...
There's a class of four-kanji compound word called yoji-jukugo which are used in Japanese quite a lot. Rather than disliking ...
Like many other English speaking gaijin, I came to Japan as a teacher of ESL, imparting my native language to ...
J-List carries a lot of awesome artbooks from Japan, including all the best anime artbooks, and no matter what you ...
One interesting area of life in Japan is weddings, and Japanese really take the subject of getting married seriously. One ...