The Language of Sake and Beer in Japan
There's no way around it: alcohol is often an important part of social life in Japan, and there's even a ...
There's no way around it: alcohol is often an important part of social life in Japan, and there's even a ...
The Holy Grail of language study is, of course, learning to think in that language without translating everything from your ...
I saw on the Internet that Yahoo had reported some good news: increasing profits thanks to strong online advertising sales ...
Back when I was an English teacher. I had some interesting discussions with my students about why they wanted to ...
The Japanese language is a syllable-based system in which you can pronounce the sounds ka, ki, ku, ke and ko, ...
Tomorrow marks the start of Golden Week, a cluster of Japanese holidays that usually fall near each other. In theory, ...
Roughly speaking, Japan's historical relationship to China is similar to that of the West and ancient Rome and Greece: the ...
With any language, there are certain words that are guaranteed to cause problems for foreigners -- our brains excel at ...
Part of Peter's Unified Theory of Japan is that to really understand a culture, you have to learn to love ...
The Japanese language has three writing systems to communicate the written word: hiragana, the syllable-based system used for expressing basic ...
It seems that a Japanese city can't be complete until it has a big tower for tourists to visit and ...
One thing I love about Japan are convenience stores, which are a great place to find hundreds of products when ...
I happened to see a news article that said the president of Nippon Sheet Glass, an American, was leaving the ...
One of the more unique aspects of Japanese animation has always been the tendency for certain series to feature nudity, ...
It's funny, the things about Japan that delight foreigners who come here. The unique sound of a Japanese train crossing, ...
When I came to Japan in 1991, I was extremely motivated to learn Japanese, which was a good thing since ...
One thing I've learned about the Japanese is, they love it when one of their number attains international fame. From ...
The Japanese language is famous for being difficult to learn, and was once thought to be an invention of the ...
I'm done with my little vacation to Australia, which was loads of fun. Australia is certainly an easy place to ...
One of the first impressions foreigners living in Japan may get is that everything is "about death." This is likely ...
One aspect of the Japanese language is its heavy use of foreign loan words, usually borrowed from English. Since the ...
Recently J-List hired a new Japanese employee to oversee the shipping of packages, and on her first day the entire ...
My wife and I have been having lots of fun this week, making our first visit to Australia for a ...
J-List takes our mission of bringing delightful Japanese products to you very seriously, and whether it's rare and unique flavors ...