Shoes On your Bed
When foreigners come to Japan, one of the first cultural differences they run into is the custom of taking shoes ...
When foreigners come to Japan, one of the first cultural differences they run into is the custom of taking shoes ...
The currency of Japan is the yen, a word that means "circle." (The Chinese yuan and Korean won both mean ...
There are certain things that the Japanese love, including cat ears, mayonnaise, and green tea Kit Kat. They also love...insurance? ...
One of the most enigmatic people in Japan is Johnny Kitagawa, founder of Johnny & Associates (or "Johnny's Jimusho" in ...
Japan is currently experiencing a wave early retirements as dozens of teachers, police officers and other public servants move their ...
While it's generally fun to be a foreigner living in Japan -- the people are nice, the sushi is cheap ...
Today is the day of J-List's official New Year Party, and when we're done with work we'll all gather at ...
When you study Japanese, you have to come to grips with the fact that, while the rules that govern how ...
Part of Peter's Unified Theory of Japan is that the Japanese greatly desire to be seen in a favorable light ...
Before coming to Japan, I knew the Japanese drank "green tea," but naturally it was destined to be more complicated ...
If you ever go to Narita Airport, the international airport serving the Tokyo area, you might not be surprised by ...
One reason I'm able to live happily in Japan is that I love the food here, and while I'm always ...
When you live in Japan, you naturally develop a new set of skills in order to survive. Very few streets ...
If you follow news in Japan at all, you might have seen that Prime Minister Abe has announced a target ...
Forming stereotypes about others is part of being human, and sometimes it's a fun subject to explore. Since Westerners make ...
Japan is a land of fast-moving fashion trends, and you never know what the next fad will be. One week ...
Yesterday I had a nice day with my daughter, taking in a movie at a local shopping mall then grabbing ...
Japan has been called "the only country that cares what its foreigners think," and judging from the large number of ...
Winter is here, and although this has been a relatively mild one so far, any winter is a cold when ...
No matter how careful we might be, cultural misunderstandings are going to happen, like a Japanese homestay student I knew ...
A new anime season is upon is, so I decided to start watching the new Da Capo III anime based ...
Hello again from J-List! It's time for another slice of life from the land of strawberry and whipped cream sandwiches. ...
J-List has been involved in licensing and publishing Japanese visual novels -- also known as eroge or "hentai" games, though ...
Last time I talked about some of the challenges Japan is facing as its population falls due to a combination ...