2011 Kanji of the Year is 絆 (Kizuna)
Each year the organization that publishes the Standardized Kanji Test (and the kanji practice for the Nintendo DS) announces the ...
Each year the organization that publishes the Standardized Kanji Test (and the kanji practice for the Nintendo DS) announces the ...
As the Internet continues to take over our lives, new net-related activities become popular. In Japan the video site Nico ...
The top two private universities in Japan are Keio and Waseda, and like the famous Yale-Harvard football rivalry, the two ...
Anime characters are generally organized into basic archetypes, and whenever a new character is introduced, fans are able to categorize ...
Recently I wrote about some core differences in the way capitalism functions in Japan, for example how the distributors J-List ...
Every year dictionary publisher U-CAN announces the most popular buzzwords for the past year, slang words which appear suddenly and ...
This past weekend saw the "roadshow" -- what a movie release is called in Japan, from an old movie distribution ...
Although Japan is a land crisscrossed by trains, cars are still needed to get around unless you happen to live ...
Transliteration is the act of moving from one writing system to another, which is never an easy task. When expressing ...
One thing I've noticed about the Japanese: they're very good at is appreciating nostalgia, and on any given day you're ...
I write a lot about the theory and practice of moe (mo-eh), since it's a subject that's dear to me. ...