Kokoro Connect and “Kokoro”
I've started watching the new anime Kokoro Connect, a surprisingly deep anime series about members of a school Culture Research ...
I've started watching the new anime Kokoro Connect, a surprisingly deep anime series about members of a school Culture Research ...
I've written before about how Japan's Internet is quite different from the net in the English-speaking world, with different memes ...
I'm back in Japan after a rather grueling trip that included a canceled flight from San Diego to Los Angeles ...
One Twitter user asked me, "Is it true that coming from Japan to America feels like traveling 20 years back ...
Hello again, this time from Boston. My son and I have completed our East Coast tour and are heading back ...
It's well known that the Japanese are an extremely polite people, and this politeness is actually infused into their language. ...
Like many people, love the works of Hayao Miyazaki, ever since catching a showing of Nausicaa of the Valley of ...
Hello again. I've hopped over to the East Coast to visit with family and do some fun sightseeing with my ...
As an American living in Japan, I know how surprised Japanese can get when foreigners internalize the society around them ...
It's certainly a nice time for my son and me to be outside of Japan, which is sweltering with summer ...
My son has flown over from Japan to relax in San Diego and practice his English before heading back east ...
It can be easy to get the wrong idea about other countries, and it's not uncommon for people to carry ...
You've been in Japan too long when, while back in the U.S., you're asked your shoe size and reply, "Er, ...
Well, the San Diego Comic-Con is over for another year, the banners and booths all taken down. After all the ...
The Japanese can be quite creative when it comes to playing with words, whether it's coming up with an advertising ...
Japan is, by and large, quite a homogeneous place. I've traveled from Sapporo to Okinawa and have seen much of ...
I've written before about how, although Japan is a capitalist country in which companies complete with each other to win ...
We're here at the San Diego Comic-Con, the most excellent place to be if you love comics, anime, sci-fi movies ...
One of the first things you do when learning a foreign language is, of course, to investigate all the "naughty" ...
Some changes are coming for foreigners living in Japan, which will be welcome indeed. Gaijin -- the word literally means ...
Since I don't live in the U.S. full time, but only come over for the summer for Anime Expo and ...
The roles of men and women in Japan can be quite different from in the West, for example the general ...
One of the more useful features of the Internet is the ability to search for information, and this works the ...
I continue to enjoy my time back home, doing San Diego things like going to the beach and the desert. ...