Japanese Kanji Names and Goggling
I wrote recently about how Japanese names are (usually) written in kanji, and how there are many possible ways of ...
I wrote recently about how Japanese names are (usually) written in kanji, and how there are many possible ways of ...
Well, the Olympics are here, and Japan is buzzing with sports fever, hoping that their athletes will do well at ...
It's funny how how tenuous the meanings of seemingly basic words can be. In English, the word "friend" is pretty ...
If you ever come to Japan, be sure and visit Kamakura, a charming city located about 50 km south of ...
I write a lot about how Japan is a homogenous place where everyone considers themselves as having come from the ...
Japanese names are generally written in kanji, the Chinese characters introduced to Japan around the 6th century A.D. Family names, ...
When I was a boy, I had some issues when it came to fish. I lived on the East Coast ...
Life is a little more fun when you know Japanese, whether it's to communicate with nihonjin who can't use English ...
I got my Japanese iPhone 3G, and am currently experiencing that state of gadget-derived bliss known as "Nerdvanna." While I ...
Hello from Japan, where the pound key on a phone (#) is called "sharp" (as in a musical note) and ...
Do you know the Japanese Pinky Promise? It's a similar to the "Make a promise/Hope to die/Stick a needle in ...
I wrote recently about how Japanese ESL students were sometimes surprised that Americans have a subject in school called English, ...
You never know what the next "boom" of the summer will be in Japan. One year it might be a ...