Nikuman Season is Back, Too.
The Japanese are very big on the four seasons, and have many customs that separate each season from the others. ...
The Japanese are very big on the four seasons, and have many customs that separate each season from the others. ...
One fun aspect of living in Japan is seeing how many television commercials you can watch before coming across one ...
Although Japanese has a reputation for being the "hardest" language to learn -- St. Francis Xavier famously said it was ...
For students of foreign languages, whether Japanese working hard to learn English or us gaijin studying Japanese, success often comes ...
There are many bizarre visual jokes in anime, which probably look odd to Western viewers at first. Characters getting a ...
The relationship of the Japanese and radiation is a unique one, as they're the only people in the history of ...
Talking with people from other cultures often requires a "sense" for words that's quite unrelated to actual skill with a ...
I recently watched "Get Lamp," an interesting documentary on the history of text adventure games, going back to the very ...
I often write about the "meticulous Japanese" and their amazing ability to do the same thing in and out for ...
Just as ancient Greece and Rome serve as the foundation of Western civilization, Japan looks to China as the mother ...
Sumo wrestling is the national sport of Japan, practiced for centuries and granted special status by the Japanese government. Although ...
Coming to a very seasonal country like Japan from San Diego, a city whose two seasons are "nice" and "slightly ...
Today is a holiday in Japan: Keiro no Hi, or Respect for the Aged Day. Celebrated nationally since 1966 -- ...
Fall my favorite time of year, and it's coming to Japan soon. Before long, the leaves will start to change ...
In addition to our popular Facebook page and the Tumblr I launched a few months ago, I have a fairly ...
All in all, "here are your gums" is not something you'd expect to hear outside a discussion of orthodontics, but ...
Well the Steins;Gate TV series has finally ended, and I enjoyed it a lot. As a card-carrying fan of any ...
A couple of posts ago I mentioned a funny scene in the Nichijou anime in which Yuko and Mio try ...
The other day I caught a CNN blog post about the term otaku, and whether it was a positive or ...
I managed to catch a natsu-kaze or "summer cold" which has knocked me out for the past couple of days, ...
Since I had the weekend to myself, I decided to pick the farthest onsen I could get to conveniently and ...
My wife is currently in South Korea with a friend, shopping and eating various delicious Korean foods. Like many Japanese, ...
Yesterday was the tenth anniversary of the terrible attacks on the World Trade Center, the sad event that, for me, ...
September means the start of university, and I've got quite a few readers in my Twitter feed who have just ...