A Trip to a Japanese Inn
Over the weekend I took off work early and headed up to the mountains around Gunma to a pleasant onsen ...
Over the weekend I took off work early and headed up to the mountains around Gunma to a pleasant onsen ...
Today is Halloween, a day for wearing ghoulish costumes and having lots of scary fun. Although you can see plenty ...
I like most things about living in Japan. The people are friendly, the food is good, and I'm never at ...
One thing I like about Japan is their enjoyment of food, and I really appreciate their tradition of eating bento ...
It's not every day you see a historical discovery that makes you exclaim, "Wow, awesome!" But that's what happened yesterday, ...
Learning a new language means getting used to new linguistic concepts, and there are constructs in Japanese that are very ...
One of the more successful companies to emerge from Japan is Yakult, the maker of drinkable yogurt beverages that has ...
The Japanese are good at coming up with innovative ways of committing information to memory, like the man who memorized ...
It's funny how different smells and tastes can bring out different memories. One of the most pleasant related to summer ...
Japanese TV never fails to entertain. One show I've watched a few times is called TATExHOKO (meaning "shield vs. spear"), ...
If you met a Japanese person whose's name was Honda or Kawasaki or Suzuki, you might smirk a little to ...
Japanese names are generally written in kanji, and just as there are alternative ways to spell Western names (though I ...
Expats like me have a lot of fun coming to Japan and blogging about what we see here, but we're ...
Coming to live in Japan means getting used to some new things. Pizza with squid, corn and mayonnaise on top. ...
It can be a challenge to find that special someone, and in overworked Japan the difficulty of people to find ...
Yesterday was an important day for me -- the 20th anniversary of my arrival in Japan! It was a cloudy ...
Ever since the word "idol" (aidoru) entered the language in 1971, Japan has had a weakness for kawaii female idols. ...
One of the most important concepts in daily life in Japan is shin'yo (SHIN-yo), which means "trust," and when Japanese ...
Drinking establishments vary from country to country, and Japan is no exception. Here a person looking for a drink has ...
The #OccupyWallStreet demonstrations have certainly been in the news a lot, and now they've come to Tokyo, with several different ...
One of the themes of being an American expat in Japan is discovering how much the country has taken various ...
Anime has certainly changed a lot since 1979, when I encountered Star Blazers/Space Battleship Yamato, the first animated series from ...
When anime and manga creators go to make a new character, they have a lot of basic personality types to ...
J-List is located in Gunma Prefecture, a ho-hum place 100 km north of Tokyo that's famous for...well, nothing, really. Gunma ...