Is Summer Vacation Too Long?
I caught an article in Time the other day which presented the case against the long three-month summer vacation in ...
I caught an article in Time the other day which presented the case against the long three-month summer vacation in ...
One of my Twitter followers asked me if I had any recommendations for his upcoming trip to Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost ...
When a person comes to live in a country as different from the U.S. as Japan is, it stands to ...
I'm having fun spending time in my American house with my Japanese daughter, although we both tend to get homesick ...
I happened to see a news report that said that taxis in London had been ranked the world's best, with ...
It's funny how perceptions work differently in different languages. If you're below a certain age, the most famous Chinese name ...
Hello again from Japan, where the zipper in your pants is known as the "window of society" (shakai no mado), ...
Yesterday I took my wife out to my favorite Mexican restaurant in San Diego. While she scarfed down the refried ...
Because I live in a smaller rural city in Japan, there are fewer foreigners around me, and it's not uncommon ...
Each language is structured in different ways, and it's fun to learn a little bit about how they work. In ...
Japan is a Buddhist country, and this manifests itself in some interesting ways. Several national holidays are Buddhist for example, ...
Over the weekend I took a day off to spend some quality time with Mrs. J-List, visiting a nice hotel ...