Mixing English and Japanese Grammar
Everyone knows that adding 'y' to the end of a noun can turn it into an adjective, like silky, messy, ...
Everyone knows that adding 'y' to the end of a noun can turn it into an adjective, like silky, messy, ...
There are many differences between Japan and the U.S. For example, America has way more lawyers -- 1 for every ...
What is the "perfect" girl? According to Japan, it seems to be someone who is half-Japanese and half-British (or French), ...
It can be fun to study how Japanese surnames work. One of the mysteries of family names in Japan is ...
One thing the Japanese love very much is making long speeches at official ceremonies, and when I went to my ...
You wouldn't think a simple word like "friend" could be a potentially complex linguistic concept, but in Japan you might ...
My son and I had a blast up in northern Japan. Our first stop was the city of Sapporo, the ...
For the past few months I've been seeing those awesomely-designed advertisements promoting tourism in Japan's northern Tohoku region, damaged so ...
Last time I mentioned the words uchi and soto, meaning in-group and out-group, which is a favorite topic of Japan ...
Yesterday was the Vernal Equinox and the official start of spring, which is welcome news to this San Diego boy, ...
Near my house there's a hill that rises sharply out of the surrounding fields, and one day when my son ...
It's fun to analyze the various social rules at work in Japan, most of which are completely invisible to Japanese ...
Each language has features which make them unique. Some languages like Chinese or Thai are highly tonal for example (Japanese ...
One the more interesting shows this anime season has been Papa no Iu Koto wo Kikinasai!, aka PapaKiki!, aka Listen ...
Over the weekend Star Wars Episode 1 in 3D opened in Japan, so I took my son to see the ...
One show I've been enjoying this season has been Rinne no Lagrange, a fun-fun moe mecha anime with some yuri ...
The Japanese are masters of influencing emotions using voice, and I'm often amazed at the eerie beauty of the voices ...
March is graduation season in Japan, a time for making tearful farewells to your classmates as you wait through a ...
Last time I talked about Donald Keene, the Japanese scholar and translator who came to Japan and took Japanese citizenship, ...
Today is White Day, an event created to serve as a "return gift day" when men in Japan will give ...
It's funny the way a person's perceptions of a place can be influenced by stereotypes. For example, there are many ...
Recently I wrote about place names around the world that are famous here because they sound funny in Japanese, the ...
There are certain eternal questions that foreigners have about Japan. For example, the word ao (AH-oh) means "blue" yet is ...
I saw a news report that Donald Keene had been granted Japanese citizenship, and thought I'd write a bit on ...