Which Fried Egg Faction Are You?
I'm always amused the way the Japanese love dividing themselves into groups using the word ha, which means "faction," as ...
I'm always amused the way the Japanese love dividing themselves into groups using the word ha, which means "faction," as ...
One reason anime is able to affect us so deeply is the quality of the voice actors, and without the ...
I write often that anime is a successful medium because it allows viewers to access a wide range of strong ...
One useful way of understanding Japan as a whole is using the idea of kata, a word that can mean ...
I like to post various things to my Twitter feed, including various observations about Japan as well as info on ...
Japan is a unique language in that so many of its words come from English or (depending on the era) ...
Although only around 1-2% of Japanese report themselves as Christians, the cultural footprint of Christianity in Japan is much larger. ...
One observation I've made about the Japanese people is that they often don't pay close attention to their own language, ...
Japan certainly has the power to confuse us with strange and wonderful things, and Japanese popular culture can be very ...
Japanese are fond of attaching events to dates, and whenever I get in my Mazda MPV, my "car navi" greets ...
Anyone who's watched more than a few anime series is probably familiar with the common trope of the token character ...
My daughter is off to Hawaii this week on a school trip with her classmates. Japanese people and Hawaii go ...
Should anime have a message? It's an interesting question which was recently taken up on Japan's 2ch BBS. If you're ...
There are some things I like about Japan. Drinking a can of hot "corn soup" on the train platform during ...
Does language influence how we perceive the world? It's certainly an interesting question, and one that I sometimes bat around ...
Sometimes it's fun to deconstruct the bizarre "physics" of anime, which violate the laws of the universe we live in ...
One aspect of living in Japan is constantly being surrounded by cute images, a fact I was reminded of this ...
In Japanese there are some amusing phonetic conventions that get used in advertising, which are interesting for a gaijin to ...
My home town of San Diego has just two seasons: sunny and slightly less sunny. In contrast, Japan has very ...
I like analyzing the little cultural memes I see in Japan, for example what kinds of things are considered "romantic" ...
We're extremely happy to announce that the long-awaited eroge Deus Machina Demonbane is finally shipping! One of the most awesome ...
The word "salaryman" is a wasei-eigo (lit. "made-in-Japan English") term referring to a salaried male employee of a company. The ...
I have a friend named Josh, and I call him "Josh," but if we were Japanese I'd probably have some ...
Recently I talked about how the members of the wider online community of people fascinated with Japan and its popular ...