Month: July 2010

In a recent update I mentioned that the way to express the idea of "brown-nosing" someone was goma o suru, ...

Like all countries, there are various foreigners living in Japan, and the "made in Japan" TV you bought last month ...

If you read blogs about Japan at all, one question that gets asked a lot is, "Why is Japan so ...

What would you do in a world without lawyers? Well, for all intents and purposes that that's the reality of ...

Over the weekend I came across a cool map of old Route 66 in my house in San Diego, and ...

This Sunday is my 12th anniversary as a J-blogger. J-List has been around since 1996, but I trace my beginning ...

San Diego has a vibrant Asian community, and driving down the Convoy Street will introduce you to a wealth of ...

One of the highlights of Anime Expo was the concert given by the two singers of Macross Frontier, the 25th ...

Leave it to Japan to turn something as simple as "yes" and "no" into something more complex than it needs ...

The other day I saw a post about the newest in wacky fruit goodness from Japan, a high quality yubari ...

Driving in the U.S. after living in Japan for so long presents certain challenges. Like the U.K., Australia and New ...

You may know the Japanese word sumimasen, which generally corresponds to "excuse me" and is one of the more useful ...

Japan is probably the only country where eating too quietly will get comments from people around you. The correct way ...

Well, we're done with Anime Expo, and what a fun time it was. Thanks to everyone who came by to ...