Big and Small Kanji on Japanese Toilets
One of the first great mysteries foreigners encounter in Japan are toilets with a handles that turn in two different ...
One of the first great mysteries foreigners encounter in Japan are toilets with a handles that turn in two different ...
Japan's Case of the Mysteriously Vanishing Elderly continues, and now it seems there are an amazing 234,354 centenarians listed as ...
The other day I was sitting in a jacuzzi, pretending I was in a bubbling onsen hot springs bath back ...
It was a year ago Saturday that Crayon Shin-chan creator Yoshito Usui died after falling 100 meters down a sheer ...
One aspect of Japan that appears odd to us free-thinking foreigners is how strict the educational system can be, especially ...
The subject of Japan's shrinking birth rate -- called shoshika in Japanese -- is something I write about a lot, ...
Japan is an expensive place, and travelling inside the country can be costly, although there are some good ways to ...
If you ever visit Japan, it's good manners to bring gifts called omiyage (oh-mee-YAH-gay) to Japanese you will be visiting ...
There are many approaches to studying a foreign language, including the Communicative Method, stressing verbal communication with other students, or ...
About 100 km south of Tokyo there's an interesting resort town called Atami, whose onsen (volcanic hot spring baths) have ...
For the past fifteen years, Japan has been fighting against the spectre of defure or deflation, in which prices decline ...
It's interesting being back in the U.S., because I get to experience that rarest of sensations, reverse culture shock, when ...
The question of who the most famous Japanese person in the world is can be fun to debate. In previous ...