Preserving the “wa” in Relationships in Japan
Many English speakers know the Japanese word wa, which means harmony and peace, and it's not rare to hear someone ...
Many English speakers know the Japanese word wa, which means harmony and peace, and it's not rare to hear someone ...
Well, my little trip to the U.S. has come to an end, and it's time to head back to Japan. ...
The Japanese love to take standardized tests, and many people use them as a tool to better themselves over the ...
Foreigners are fascinated by kanji characters because they're so different from anything we use -- the idea of capturing complex ...
Hello from Japan, where the words "not by the hair of my chinny-chin-chin" mean something very different.In addition to writing ...
Making errors when speaking a foreign language comes with the territory, and smart language learners will do what they can ...
It's funny how smell has the power to capture memories like nothing else. Every summer we burn Japanese mosquito coils ...
Something about living in another country can make a person think introspectively about themselves. When I started J-List back in ...
There are many images of Japan that have become famous all over the world, like solemn temples with statues of ...
The U.S. is in "election mode" right now, so I thought I'd compare politics between America and Japan a bit. ...
If you watch anime in Japanese at all, one word you may have learned is suki which means "like," usually ...
When I'm in the U.S., I like to take the chance to drive around to different places in my 2002 ...
If you go to Japan, you'll see many things there. Beautiful temples and shrines and sakura trees. Vending machines that ...
I saw that the U.S. had taken action to freeze the assets of a major yakuza group in the U.S., ...
Japan, of course, is a very seasonal place, with a strong tradition of doing different things during each of the ...