Thoughts on Japan: Filial Piety and Seppuku
Over the years I've read several novels by James Clavell, which were loosely based on history and set in Hong ...
Over the years I've read several novels by James Clavell, which were loosely based on history and set in Hong ...
You may remember reading a few years ago that Japan had "outlawed" being overweight. Like much of what you read ...
Japan has started Golden Week, a semi-accidental grouping of holidays which gives everyone a nice break from their normal school ...
Without a doubt, one of the best things about living in Japan is the excellent service you receive on a ...
The Japanese are big fans of television, and watch 2-6 hours of TV per day on average, depending on their ...
Are French people Buddhists? Are the Germans lonely? Are the British particularly heroic, and do Americans eat lots of rice? ...
I've been a student of Japanese since that first day in 1987 when I started Higurashi-sensei's class at SDSU. (There ...
We like to think of our little company as a "wonderful toy box of things from Japan" where various products ...
Like everyone, I'm a big fan of using Internet search to artificially raise my IQ, finding information or verifying it ...
Two important concepts related to Japan are 建前 tatemae (tah-teh-mah-eh) and 本音 honne (hon-neh), which essentially mean "the facade or ...
It's been an eventful few months for Japan's economy, with the return to the conservative pro-business and oh-so-oddly-named Liberal Democratic ...
Sometimes I like to pick random Japanese historical figures and write about them. Like Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the second of Japan's ...
I saw that yesterday marked the 25th anniversary of the release of My Neighbor Totoro, one of my all-time favorite ...
When foreigners come to Japan, it's natural they'll encounter objects that are common and familiar to Japanese people yet strange ...
A few days ago the father of a friend of ours passed away, so we had to go into "Japanese ...
One thing you learn when living as an expat in Japan is how global the world can be. Recently my ...
J-List has been involved with licensing and translating visual novels -- in their ecchi form they're known as bishoujo games, ...
It's fun to analyze the way anime, game and manga companies go about creating characters that will win the hearts ...
There are many reasons to like a given anime series, including a truly fresh story approach, characters with endearing moe ...
Last time I talked about the way a country like Japan can appear quite different to "outsiders" who come here ...
I've written before about how one of the least enjoyable aspects of living in Japan is having to be so ...
Names in Japan, of course, are pronounced family name first, so if you meet someone named Yamada Hanako you'll know ...
I've learned a few things during my time in Japan, including dozens of ways to use mayonnaise as well as ...
Over the weekend I took a drive with Mrs. J-List up to the mountains above Karuizawa, the pleasant city in ...