The Japanese Passenger on the Titanic
It's fun to delve into history and see what interesting people you can find, like Nakahama "John" Manjiro, the first ...
It's fun to delve into history and see what interesting people you can find, like Nakahama "John" Manjiro, the first ...
There are many powerful images of summer in Japan, including visiting the Tanabata festival while wearing a yukata, lightning fireworks ...
When a foreigner goes to Japan, especially for an extended period of time rather than a brief visit as a ...
There are certain paradoxes you encounter when dealing with Japan. For example, we often think of the country as a ...
Well the Phoenix Comicon is over, and I'm back in San Diego. The show was a blast, and we had ...
My wife and I recently made the decision to "reform" our house, which is what the Japanese call remodeling for ...
That Steven Spielberg, he's really good at making movies -- you could even say he's "Jaws." In Japanese, the word ...
Japan has a highly developed entertainment world composed of thousands of professional actors, singers, idols, comedians, "announcers" (aka newscasters) and ...
I get a lot of questions from readers interested in working in Japan, usually as a teacher of English as ...
This may not exactly come as a surprise, but I love anime fandom. It's a warm and comfortable place filled ...
Besides being a dedicated fan of all things Japan-related, I'm also card-carrying lover of time-travel and related science fiction stories. ...
Although I've been in Japan for more than 20 years, there are some things I've never really mastered, like eating ...
Yesterday I took a trip to Takasaki to visit the local branch of the Tokyo Immigration Office. I was there ...
The spring 2013 anime season is an especially good one, and it's definitely been a chore to keep up with ...
In a world where so many anime series follow the adventures of yet another high school club trying to assemble ...
All languages use onomatopoeia, words based on sounds, and some examples in English are bark, oink, crash, click, snap, clap, ...
Everyone has encountered extremely frustrating individuals who hold opinions so bizarre that it makes us wonder how they could be ...
Sunday is Mother's Day, a day to think of your okaasan and do something nice for her if you can. ...
One subject I write about a lot is the great interest the Japanese seem to take in what foreigners visiting ...
Quick, do you know how many Great Lakes there are in North America? The answer is five. The reason I ...
For a country of such famous subtlety and nuance, in which the subjects of sentences are usually left off because ...
If you ever visit the Tokyo area, you'll find many things to do: go shopping for fresh fish at the ...
One of the more interesting paradoxes about Japan is the way around 70% of people here will insist they don't ...
One thing about living in Japan: living here will make you a better driver. The combination of driving on narrow ...