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No matter how many years I spend in Japan, every new day brings with it the potential for new linguistic ...
No matter how many years I spend in Japan, every new day brings with it the potential for new linguistic ...
Japan has a new leader, Yoshihiko Noda, who will be sworn in as Japan's 95th Prime Minister on Friday. It ...
Japan is the land of the "boom," and you never know what will become popular next. One year all the ...
One theme I write a lot about is how there's exactly one "correct" way to do things in Japan -- ...
I wrote last week that the Japanese were quite possibly the most polite people in the world, which is one ...
The Japanese are fans of "ranking" TV shows that rank famous products for you, and it's not hard to find ...
These days nearly all anime is "filmed" in a real location, and you have a car and an obsessive personality, ...
All eyes are watching the upcoming election for president of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, which will determine the ...
It's often said the Japanese are the most polite people on Earth, and this is generally a Good Thing. When ...
The end is near for Naoto Kan, 94th Prime Minister of Japan. I've been a fan of Mr. Kan's for ...
One theme I write about often is how important children are in Japan, and how much energy the country spends ...
I'd like to say thanks to the nation of Australia for taking good care of my daughter. She spent two ...
Recently a customer posted a question on our Facebook page asking if there were any "realistic" anime series, which seemed ...
There are certain positive aspects of living in Japan, including the fact that it's such a peaceful country -- you'll ...
I happened to see that the "manifesto" of Norwegian gunman and all-around asshat Anders Behring Breivik included words of praise ...
When you're a white guy studying Japanese in university, a funny thing happens: as you progress in your studies there ...
Recently I wote about the anime and light novel series Kore wa Zombie desu ka? and I thought I'd give ...
One thing you don't generally think of a lot is addresses and how they work, or how easy it is ...
There's a big change in store for the J-List crew this summer: the impending opening of a Costco about ten ...
One thing you get used to about Japanese people is, they don't think too deeply about their own language, and ...
I'm back in Japan, after a long and satisfying "vacation" in the U.S. (actually working those conventions is quite a ...
There was a huge crowd of people in Narita as my son and I passed through the airport, and I ...
Well, my long sojourn in the U.S. is finally at an end, and I'm returning to Japan with my son ...
When I was growing up, I remember thinking that they had arranged marriages in Japan, probably something I got from ...