The Three WA’s of Japanese
Part of the challenge of studying a foreign language is learning to categorize and separate the new concepts you encounter. ...
Part of the challenge of studying a foreign language is learning to categorize and separate the new concepts you encounter. ...
At the anime convention in New York last December, I got to meet Peter Fernandez, the voice behind the legendary ...
Last time I mentioned that the word "taco" (tako) happens to mean something very different in Japan: octopus. The Japanese ...
There are many strange and new tastes that await a foreigner who comes to live in Japan. Some, like pickled ...
Japan is one of the most earthquake-prone countries in the world, a fact that I was reminded of on Thursday ...
Last time I talked about what makes the Japanese the way they are, putting forth the theory that the strict ...
Wherever you're from in the world. there's a good chance that your blood contains contributions from different national groups -- ...
The question of "What makes the Japanese the way they are?" is an interesting one, and I'm certainly not the ...
You probably don't think of soybeans as being vital to culture, but in Japan, the lowly soybean is the most ...
The name of Japan in its own language is nihon or nippon, alternate readings of kanji characters that mean "origin ...
Japan has been undergoing a "Miyazaki Prefecture Boom," lately, thanks to its governor, former TV comedian Sonomanma Higashi, a discovery ...
Japan is a small country, which has to fit about half the population of the U.S. into an area just ...
Being a healthy male, I'm naturally fascinated with the opposite sex, and I find the subject of Japanese females to ...
It's always interesting to compare the differences between Japan and the rest of the world. In America, many products like ...
Like most countries, the keitai (mobile phone) has become a huge part of life in Japan, and for the younger ...