Japanese Grammar and Taxes
Language reflects the character of the people who use it, and this is definitely true of Japanese. One of the ...
Language reflects the character of the people who use it, and this is definitely true of Japanese. One of the ...
There are a few unpleasant things about living in Japan, like riding packed trains in Tokyo at rush hour, or ...
In addition to hay fever season in Japan, it's also time to prepare for the start of the new school ...
Right now it's extremely windy in Japan, with strong gusts fierce enough to rock our house and make us think ...
One aspect of the Japanese I'm a fan of is their humility, the general tendency to be self-effacing and avoid ...
We're big fans of Japanese visual novels, aka eroge or H-Games (depending on the content), since the genre offers so ...
Japan was a very different place when I came here back in 1991. Back then, foreigners were happy if we ...
Near J-List there's a park I used to frequent with my kids which had two small hills in the center. ...
One convenient thing about the Japanese language is the high number of foreign loan words that are in use, which ...
While Japanese television is well-stocked with variety shows, live music shows and contemporary and historical dramas, some of the programs ...
For the average Japanese person, the most difficult thing they'll do in their lives is juken, taking an entrance exam ...
There are certain benefits to being in Japan, including the ability to go almost anywhere by train and toilets that ...
One thing I had to get used to as an American living in Japan was how British things could be ...
I write a lot about how Japan is one of the safest and most peaceful countries in the world. Murders ...
Before the Internet, Japan was a truly mysterious place, and it was difficult to access information about the country from ...
You never, as they say, forget your first, and I've found this goes for studying kanji, too. While the first ...
Japan is probably the only country where eating too quietly will get comments from people around you. The correct way ...
While quaint shopping arcades are certainly nice, the flip-side of life in Japan is that things can be rather backwards ...
One thing about the Japanese is that they seem hard-wired to appreciate nostalgia, whether it's eating the traditional candy they ...
My Japanese mother-in-law once remarked that, "I sure don't see many women with big stomachs these days." At first I ...
It's fun to analyze different memes (anime-related or otherwise) as they evolve and change. While some have wide appeal no ...
One of the more enjoyable aspects to living in Japan is the constant stream of entertaining TV commercials, and I ...
Yesterday several J-List staff members and I went to Tokyo Big Sight to check out the International Gift Show, a ...
One of the most fascinating things about the world is the way our perceptions change as the scale we're observing ...