Hey, let’s go to Kyoto!
Spring is here, and that means something special to the Japanese: sakura, the cherry blossoms that make the country blaze ...
Spring is here, and that means something special to the Japanese: sakura, the cherry blossoms that make the country blaze ...
I've written before about the Japanese affinity for attractive faces that are haafu, or half-Japanese and half-Western, and it seems ...
The other day my daughter asked me if I wanted to play Mari-Suma with her, and I replied that I'd ...
Every once in a while I encounter a Japanese person who, for whatever reason, can't accept the fact that I ...
The number of suicides in Japan has topped the 30,000 mark for the eleventh year in a row, with the ...
Every language has dialects, and Japanese is no different. I've heard that since Japanese people are more likely to stay ...
All in all, Japan is a fairly easy country for an expat to live in: people are friendly and interested ...
When you live in a place like Japan for long enough, it inevitably starts to change you. First it's the ...
Japan's political world was shocked at the arrest of the top aide to Democratic Party of Japan head Ichiro Ozawa ...
I've heard it said that when French people learn English, they need to work hard at re-learning how to pronounce ...
I write a lot about how Japan's society is considered "vertical," with concepts like senpai, a senior in a school, ...
The word moe (mo-eh) is written with a kanji that means "sprout," but it's meaning is a bit difficult to ...
There's no place quite like Japan for that paradigm-shifting-without-a-clutch experience. My daughter starts Junior High School next month, and she's ...