Things To Do in Tokyo
Tokyo is the sprawling capital of Japan, so large that it's more like a prefecture than a unified entity, made ...
Tokyo is the sprawling capital of Japan, so large that it's more like a prefecture than a unified entity, made ...
For some reason, the Japanese love rankingu (ranking), and there are TV shows that go out of their way to ...
Kanji are the mysterious Chinese pictographs used in China, Japan, and to a limited extent, in South Korea. While they ...
I wrote last time about how some words related to Buddhism customarily receive the honorific o in front, for example ...
My son is in the second year of junior high, so it's time for us to start thinking about what ...
Have you ever wondered what all those suffixes added to the ends of Japanese names mean? They can be quite ...
It's fun to dig around Japanese history for interesting tidbits to discover. Like William Adams, the Englishman who arrived in ...
The other day my wife asked an unexpected question: "What part of San Diego is your family grave located in?" ...
The Japanese system of phonology is a unique one based on syllables, for example allowing for the sounds ka, ki, ...
Summer is here, which means attending festivals, shooting off fireworks with the kids, drinking mugi-cha (barley tea) and engaging in ...
Although the average Japanese person on the street might think there are a lot of foreigners living and working in ...
Each language is special, with unique features that may cause confusion for speakers of other languages. For example, Romance languages ...
Besides promoting world peace through shared popular culture and Hello Kitty bento boxes, I consider it my mission to try ...
Japan's archeology world is buzzing after evidence that an ancient burial mound near Nara may have contained Queen Himiko, the ...