Japan Election: My View
The Japanese election is over, and as expected, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) won a significant victory over the ...
The Japanese election is over, and as expected, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) won a significant victory over the ...
My son and I are safely back home after our great adventure in northern Japan. On Saturday we did more ...
Quick: name one way that the Confederate States of America contributed to the creation of modern Japan? Well, I'll tell ...
My son and I are enjoying our trip to northern Japan. We had fun exploring Aomori, visiting the windswept beauty ...
The other day I went into a store and saw an advertisement for a chair that used bags of compressed ...
Tomorrow I'm going on a bit of a vacation to northern Japan with my son, a fun trip that we're ...
There are certain things the Japanese just seem to really like for reasons that are difficult for foreigners to understand. ...
The Japanese election season is in full swing, with the two major parties -- the currently ruling Liberal Democratic Party ...
This week J-List's own Tomo, the employee who keeps our site well stocked with interesting DVDs, Hello Kitty shoulder massagers ...
The Japanese love to abbreviate long, hard to pronounce words. Whether its lopping off some kanji to change Tokyo Daigaku ...
You've been in Japan too long when you get a nihongo ga jozu ("you speak Japanese very well") and feel ...
Right now my wife and daughter are down in Kyoto, visiting a friend on the Sea of Japan side the ...
I read an article on BBC's news site about a study of facial expressions around the world, which essentially found ...
McDonald's Japan is currently running a bizarre promotion using a caricature of an American named Mr. James, who hails from ...
One of the cuter -- or possibly creepier -- things that Japanese girls do is refer to themselves in the ...
Last time I talked about some phrases that are very concise in Japanese yet have many long and complex potential ...
Since we were nearby, we stopped by Lake Kizaki, the area famous as the location of the Please Teacher and ...
Over the weekend I took my son to Matsumoto Castle in Nagano Prefecture, one of the most beautiful castles in ...
This is Matsumoto Casatle, the castle we went to see today. One of the oldest and most beautiful castles in ...
Despite some recent positive rumblings, the recession continues to be hard on the Japanese economy, pushing the unemployment rate here ...
It's funny how words in one language don't always match up with words in another, especially when you're talking about ...
Japan is in the middle of Obon (pronounced "oh, bone!"), a four-day Buddhist holiday that's kind of like Thanksgiving in ...
The other day I got an odd hankering to watch one of my favorite Hayao Miyazaki films, Kiki's Delivery Service, ...
When we were in Las Vegas we happened to see a family from South Korea playing in the pool, and ...