Your Friend in Japan Observations on America as a “free” country, what that means to the Japanese, and questions about Burger King and Dairy Queen by Peter Payne 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Things Japanese don’t expect gaijin to be able to do, learning proverbs in Japanese, and reflections on my childhood by Peter Payne 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Thoughts on raising kids bilingual, the origin of the name “Atari” and Our RV Trip by Peter Payne 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Culture shock related to cars, subtleties of language, and all about Japanese pocket tissue by Peter Payne 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan The end of Comicon again, thoughts on math and the abacus, and strategies for communication by Peter Payne 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Some useful phrases for making a good impression in Japanese, Japan and the sweet potato-bank ATM connection, and fun at the San Diego Comicon by Peter Payne 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan All about bowing, something America has that Japan does not, and a strange buzzing sound by Peter Payne 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan My Narita Reconsideration, a very useful Japanese mantra, and an important virtue for Japanese to have by Peter Payne 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Comparing cars in Japan and America, culture shock I get in my home country, and Americans don’t like to say “goodbye” by Peter Payne 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan The value of spending a year abroad, various definitions of “bilingual,” and observations on Japanese females by Peter Payne 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Fun in my Miata, all about Sake and what to avoid, and the sound of silence in Japanese by Peter Payne 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan What you can learn about public baths from Street Fighter II, Japan and Yellow Cabs, and the end of 0% by Peter Payne 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan The end of Anime Expo 2006, North Korea and their damn missles, and views on my ESL teaching days by Peter Payne 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Notes from Anime Expo, culture shock and toilets, all about MOS Burger, and fun in Graceland by Peter Payne 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Back in the USA (and sleepy), English and my son’s spelling, and a theory of macro-economics by Peter Payne 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Fun with my talking car, the act of reading Japanese, and new business ideas in Japan by Peter Payne 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Learning to count chopsticks in Japanese, the meaning of GOD HAIR & MAKE, and Japan’s new yaoi boom by Peter Payne 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Nostalgia and the Showa Era, a serious definition of “coincidence” and World Cup bad news by Peter Payne 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Japan’s relationship to China and “Kampo” medicine, skills a foreigner in Japan needs, and all about tipping by Peter Payne 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Benefits from Japan’s homogeneous culture, drawbacks to living in Japan, and the Japanese futon defined by Peter Payne 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Peter’s recommendations for karaoke, how kanji works, and where Japanese company names come from by Peter Payne 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Back in Japan with culture shock, all about Japanese dialects, perceptions between countries and A-Kon wrap up by Peter Payne 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan A-Kon 17 wrap up, Peter’s musings on anime cons in general, and who to watch in the World Cup by Peter Payne 20 years ago
