Thinking in Japanese (or English, or Whatever)
One of the holy grails of speaking a foreign language is thinking in your target language, a process that seems ...
One of the holy grails of speaking a foreign language is thinking in your target language, a process that seems ...
Valentine's Day is an important day in Japan, a time for couples to show their affection through the medium of ...
You learn certain things about the Japanese when you live here. For example, you discover that 5'8" (172 cm) is ...
J-List has been involved with licensing PC dating-sim games, visual novels, RPGs and eroge for a long time, and we're ...
I sometimes look back with fondness on my college days, and the adventure that was learning Japanese in Mrs. Higurashi's ...
Right now it's juken (test) season in Japan, when hundreds of thousands of students take the entrance exams they've spent ...
We've been making some improvements around here, adding new features and which will hopefully delight our customers. We've just rolled ...
I'm rushing to finish this update a little early since tonight we're having the J-List shinnen-kai, or New Year's Party. ...
The other day I went through the McDonald's drive-thru with my son, and I noticed they were giving out SpongeBob ...
In the Mazda MPV we use as a family car we've got a navi (er, GPS car navigation thing, whatever ...
One unexpected aspect of expat life in Japan is making friends with gaijin -- the word the Japanese use for ...
One of the more amazing stories of World War II is that of Tsutomu Yamaguchi, the man who survived not ...
Like many, I'm a big fan of bento, the Japanese tradition of convenient and delicious portable lunches in a box. ...
Yesterday I experienced that Great Democratizer, the full body health checkup, called ningen dock or "human dock" in Japanese. (The ...
The other day I called the hotel I usually stay at whenever I go to Tokyo -- Hotel Mets Shibuya, ...
The other day, my daughter came out of her room, and I did a double-take. She was wearing one of ...
Winter is Strawberry Time in Japan, when companies like Glico and Lotte and Morinaga bring out many awesome new snacks ...
The Japanese language is based on kanji characters in much the same way that Western languages draw from ancient Latin ...
Last time I wrote about ways that U.S. companies use the imagery of America to sell products in Japan, sometimes ...
Things I like about winter in Japan: wearing my hanten kimono coat while enjoying a dinner of nabe with the ...
One thing I like about popular culture like anime or manga is the way is the way it can teach ...
Certain unique aspects of the Japanese people stand out to foreigners who come here to live, like their tendency to ...
It's common for U.S. companies doing business in Japan to make use of their American-ness as a marketing tool, and ...
Late night TV in Japan is always fun. One show I like to catch sometimes is called Arita and MMatsuko ...