My Son and the Coming Exam Test Hell
On Sunday my wife and son drove to his juku, or evening preparatory school (a.k.a. "cram school"), for a formal ...
On Sunday my wife and son drove to his juku, or evening preparatory school (a.k.a. "cram school"), for a formal ...
My wife reads the Japanese version of Newsweek, and sometimes I thumb through it to see how it compares to ...
The Japanese, as I've often written, are a group-oriented people, and it's interesting to observe the subtle body language that ...
For some reason, I'm able to recite the "government of the people, by the people, and for the people" part ...
I've been fascinated with the women of Japan ever since I arrived here, and over the years I've managed to ...
When the cute-as-a-button Aki Hoshino tried to enter a casino in Macau the other day, she suddenly found herself forbidden ...
My daughter recently asked me if I could drive her to the nearby town of Oizumi so she could visit ...
Google has revolutionized the world, adding ten points to the collective IQ of humanity by allowing us to summon up ...
If you watch anime in Japanese at all, one word you will probably become aware of quickly is suki which ...
Getting into anime means having your horizons broadened, learning about strange and new concepts like senpai and kohai (senior/junior in ...
Singer, comedian and all-around nice guy Tsuyoshi Kusanagi has been a fixture on Japanese TV for the past two decades ...
Today is Ramune Day, marking the 137th anniversary of the famous Japanese soft drink's manufacture in Japan. A carbonated beverage ...
The first Japanese person to set foot on American soil was Manjiro Nakahama, a 14-year-old fisherman who was rescued in ...
Back in my college days at SDSU we had a "Japan-America Friendship Club" that would organize events like beach side ...
Whenever I go to Tokyo, I start to pay more attention to my surroundings when the train hits Omiya, a ...
It's shaping up to be a Golden Week to remember here in Japan, as hundreds of thousands of Japanese make ...