Month: November 2011

Japan got a famous visitor last week, as the Dalai Lama travelled through the heavily damaged Tohoku region, bringing words ...

If you've listened to spoken Japanese at all you've probably heard the word desu, often pronounced with the last syllable ...

Being male, I am naturally perplexed by the opposite sex, but living in Japan increases my confusion even more since ...

A couple of weeks ago I went down to Tokyo to meet with a company J-List does business with. When ...

One thing I love about the Japanese people is their deep passion for their children, something I've observed firsthand as ...

I've written before about how anime is a very stylized world, where characters can have impossibly large and expressive eyes ...

There are some things you say when you live in Japan that you'd certainly never utter back home. For example, ...

Although all languages share the basic building blogs of grammar, with nouns, verbs, and adjectives, passive and active voice and ...

Ever since tear-jerkers like Clannad After Story came along, it seems more and more anime series involve stories that can ...

Every once in a while I encounter a Japanese person who, for whatever reason, can't accept the fact that I ...

The other day I decided my hair had grown long enough, and that it was time to go get it ...

There are many mysterious things about anime that might puzzle viewers from time to time. Why do characters sneeze randomly ...