Your Friend in Japan What they teach in a Japanese “morals” class, smart tricks for studying a foreign language, and Japan’s newest otaku boom by Peter Payne 19 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Language learning and the “Han Solo Factor,” example of silly English in product names, and more by Peter Payne 19 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Peter tastes local politics, the Joba horse-riding machine, and more info on blood types by Peter Payne 19 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Broken stereotypes of the Japanese, Japan’s love affair with “overseas dramas,” and Autumn, season of healthy appetites by Peter Payne 19 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Politicial life after Koizumi, being at peace with taking your shoes off, and why Taro can’t code by Peter Payne 19 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Typhoons and destruction in Japan, Respect for the Aged Day, and a death sentence for Japan’s scariest cult leader by Peter Payne 19 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Thuoghts on “car culture” in Japan, the basics of how kanji work, and autumn = school sports day by Peter Payne 19 years ago
Your Friend in Japan A new social problem for Japanese, famous English phrases including “Boys, Be Ambitious,” and the Japanese obsession with design by Peter Payne 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan More ways we foreigners can save Japan, all about “Nihonjinron” and superstitions about death by Peter Payne 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Seeing Japan through iced coffee goggles, relieving stress through coloring books, and how we gaijin can save Japan from its falling birthrate! by Peter Payne 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan A happy day in Japan, forgetting which kind of English you speak, and feeling “natsukashii” with my old Japanese textbook by Peter Payne 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Japan’s most famous businessmen, when not to laugh at your students, and all about our prefecture by Peter Payne 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan The hierarchy of language in Japan, trouble for “unhurried education” and, is my wife a Desperate Housewife? by Peter Payne 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Stereotypes of foreigners by Japanese including Girls from Ipanema, Japan’s “other” staple food, and more by Peter Payne 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan New “keitai” phones for my family, all about Japanese names, and the Pluto – Gamilon connection by Peter Payne 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Understanding how perceptions of foreigners affects us, learning culture through anime, and time to study some Japanese! by Peter Payne 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan The subject of English lyrics in Japanese songs, the drama of “juken hell,” and useless trivia for you by Peter Payne 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan The custom of gift-giving in Japan, the problem of Japanese forgetting kanji, and my kids’ approach to bilingualism by Peter Payne 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Challenges of international marriage, housing issues in Japan, and all about Japanese bread (pan) by Peter Payne 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan My wife’s new respect for Johnny Depp, 15 minutes of fame for Baby Gorilla and Pyupa, and High School Baseball in Japan by Peter Payne 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan August and Yasukuni Shrine, a very Buddhist holiday, and small drinks and Japanese girls’ butts by Peter Payne 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Differences between Japanese and English, how to say “like” in Japanese, and what’s up with that wax food? by Peter Payne 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Understanding Japan through job resumes, reflections on the word “otaku” and Obi-Wan on our “point of view” by Peter Payne 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan More reflections on “freedom” and how it relates to James Dean, my trip to the Moon, and Japanese “standing nails” by Peter Payne 20 years ago
