Month: March 2008

Living in Japan has certainly made me a more considerate person, and I generally thinks of others before acting on ...

One of the first words a foreigner learns upon coming to Japan is daijobu (dai-JOH-boo), a very useful term which ...

When you live in a country that's as different from the U.S. as Japan is, it's interesting to observe the ...

Akihabara is the area of Tokyo famous for its Electric Town shopping district and for being the international "Mecca" of ...

Part of Peter's Unified Theory of Japan is that America is a country of idealists while Japanese are generally pragmatists. ...

You never forget your first impressions of something. Although it was seventeen years ago, I still vividly remember my arrival ...

Last time I talked about some of the interesting discussions I've seen on Japanese TV shows, even about subjects that ...

One of my favorite words of Japanese is actually wasei eigo or "made-in-Japan English." It's the phrase "going my way," ...

I've often been impressed with the open nature of discussion I've seen on Japanese television, with several shows that really ...

One thing about the Japanese: they love kawaii, or cute, and this often takes the form of "mascot characters" who ...

In the U.S., "back to school" season is in August, when parents prepare for the start of the new school ...

The Japanese have a long history with robots, going all the way back to karakuri ningyo, mechanical dolls that mimic ...

I caught a report on TV the other day about a unique problem Japanese companies are facing. It seems that ...