It’s Comic Market Time!
Another big part of the year-end festivities for many is attending Comic Market, the sprawling doujinshi event held in Tokyo ...
Another big part of the year-end festivities for many is attending Comic Market, the sprawling doujinshi event held in Tokyo ...
Well, 2011 is finally at an end. It was a very strange year, filled with events that no one could ...
One thing I like about learning a foreign language is the insight I gain into my own brain. For example, ...
Well, the first season of the I Have Few Friends anime has ended, although I wish it would go on ...
I went to Tokyo the other day, always a treat for me since I like riding shinkansen and eating ekiben, ...
Yesterday I went to take a photo at an automated machine, which I needed for some documentation I had to ...
We hope you had a lovely Christmas with family and/or friends wherever you are in the world. We had a ...
While I certainly love sushi, sashimi, sukiyaki and other types of exotic Japanese cuisine, I often find my favorite foods ...
The other day my son said, "I really hate rats. It's because of a rat that we don't get to ...
There are some fundamental differences between Japan and the U.S. which I like to explore from time to time. The ...
Kanji is the primary writing system used in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan. In the case of Japanese, kanji ...
Yesterday I went down to Tokyo, visiting Akihabara to scout for awesome products I wanted to carry on J-List. (The ...
Japan's relationship with the English language is an interesting one. All Japanese study three years of English in junior high ...
When you go to an onsen (OWN-sen), a hot springs bath, it's important to have all the essentials with you, ...
I see that North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has passed away, going to that Worker's Paradise in the Sky. Although ...
It's no surprise that the Japanese eat a lot of sushi, having invented it and all, and even in J-List's ...
Over the weekend my family and I attended the Christmas Candlelight Service at my daughter's school, a mission-kei (kei meaning ...
One of the best aspects of living in Japan is the honesty and integrity of Japanese people, and as a ...
Anime is a funny place, where characters can have the most outrageous hair colors like pink or blue or blonde, ...
Over the years my son and I have had a great father-and-son relationship with Mobile Suit Gundam, watching the various ...
A few weeks ago I took some time off to go up to an onsen resort in the mountains with ...
Last year I had a bit of a family reunion in San Diego, and I got to see several family ...
As with the rest of the world, the Japanese are increasingly turning to social websites for sharing links and ideas ...
The other day I got a treat when I went home for dinner: masu no sushi, delicious trout sushi on ...