Month: July 2013

One reason I like studying a foreign language like Japanese is the way it teaches you about your own brain, ...

One fun aspect of living in Japan is visiting convenience stores and seeing what new snacks have been released. While ...

It's always fun to turn on late night TV in Japan and see what interesting shows I can find, like ...

One of the main ways for foreigners to come work in Japan is as teachers of English as a Second ...

There's a new Hayao Miyazaki film in theaters right now, and since it's arguably my job to watch anime, I ...

If you happen to be in Kyoto right now and see a tall, lanky boy who kind of looks like ...

Kanji is one of three writing systems used to write Japanese, used to express advanced cognitive concepts in sentences. (The ...

I'm safely back in Japan, the land where everything is extremely clean and well-ordered. Now I'm trying to get used ...

A lot of people talk about the falling Japanese population, but the staff of J-List is doing something about it. ...

While there are many innovative ways of studying Japanese, including self-study programs with flashcards and textbooks, online study programs and ...

While I was busy meeting customers here in San Diego, Japan was having yet another election, this time for the ...

It's the end of another San Diego Comic-Con, and as usual it was a blast. We sold tons of J-List ...

We're having loads of fun at the San Diego Comic-Con here in always-sunny San Diego, selling tons of Tentacle Grape ...

Sumo wrestling is the official sport of Japan, enjoying special status and support by the Japanese government. It's more than ...

One of the more challenging aspects of learning a foreign language is picking up idiomatic expressions, which can be terribly ...

I happened to see an article that officially declared anime and manga to be good ways of learning a foreign ...

I finally made time to finish the second season of Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai, ...

It's time for a new anime season, even though I still haven't caught up with the previous one. There are ...

Do the Japanese say "I love you"? It's an interesting question that touches on cultural issues as well as linguistic. ...

I've been enjoying the last quiet weekend before the chaos of Comic-Con descends on us all, after which time I ...

The poor staff of J-List is sweating in Japan this summer as temperatures climb above 40°C/104°F, with correspondingly yucky humidity. ...

  J-List at San Diego Comic Con The San Diego Comic-Con has become the premier worldwide festival for celebrating all ...

Japan, of course, is a volcanic archipelago made up of four main islands, which are Honshu, the largest, about the ...

It's the calm before the storm as J-List gets ready for the San Diego Comic-Con next week, preparing the T-shirts, ...