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I've been blogging about Japan since 1998 -- actually a bit before then, but I officially trace my start as ...
I've been blogging about Japan since 1998 -- actually a bit before then, but I officially trace my start as ...
Every once in a while Japan does something that makes you stop and say, "wait, what?" Like when they advertised ...
The decades after WWII have seen some successful American businesses establish themselves in Japan, including Coca-Cola, Toys R Us and ...
It's fun to examine some of broader categories of anime that exist. There are harem anime like Infinite Stratos and ...
I came to Japan in 1991 and worked for five years as an English teacher before deciding to take a ...
One of my favorite Japanese words is 勤勉 kinben (pronounced keen-ben), which means industrious, diligent, and studious. Just as America ...
When I came to Japan back in 1991, Terminator 2: Judgment Day was playing in theaters, the first George Bush ...
If you want to make an anime drinking game, there are plenty of classic situations you can start with. Like, ...
There are certain things the Japanese just seem to really like for reasons that are difficult for foreigners to understand. ...
The J-List staff had fun at our New Year's Party on Friday, eating and drinking on J-List's tab as a ...
Last night I started watching the new Super Sonico The Animation series, a fun show if you like music, fanservice ...
We're rushing today's update a bit because tonight is the 新年会 shin-nen kai or New Year's Party of J-List. Similar ...
I saw that, for the 12th year in a row, the Toyota Camry was the top-selling car in the U.S. ...
It can be fun to pick random people in Japan's history and examine them. Like Ranald MacDonald, the first English ...
There are some fundamental differences between Japan and the West, for example the way there are no anatomically-based swear words ...
January marks the start of 受験シーズン (juken season), when thousands of Japanese high school students take the most important tests ...
So far the winter 2014 anime season is shaping up to be a good one, with several decent shows I ...
One theme I write about a lot is that Japanese don't always expect Westerners to speak Japanese, and will occasionally ...
One good thing about living in Japan is that it's a very safe country where you're unlikely to meet with ...
There are generally two kinds of anime series these days: those that run for 12 weeks -- a single anime ...
I write often about the concept of 国民性 kokumin-sei, a word which can be translated as "national character," and one ...
My family and I are back from our trip to the island of Cebu in the Philippines. We had a ...
One of the more well-known linguistic issues related to Japanese is its lack of L/R sound differentiation, which is where ...
Hello and ake-ome to all of us from Japan. This is a fairly recent slang way to say 明けましておめでとう akemashite ...