Your Friend in Japan Back in Japan and getting ready for New Year’s, my respect for hard work, and a great way to get money in 2008! 18 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Comparing my kids Japanese and American personalities, more on what makes Japanese people tick, and all about sitting on the floor in Japan 18 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Thoughts on Christmas in Japan vs. America, my surprising first Christmas in Japan, and Japanese food for poor single men 18 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Some thoughts on the series “Lost,” how to brighten a Japanese salaryman’s day, and how learning Japanese can get you fewer dates 18 years ago
Your Friend in Japan The interesting status of voice actors in Japan, shortening foreign words in English and Japanese, and ways that the Japanese aren’t so polite 18 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Needing a sixth sense to communicate with people from other countries, this year’s kanji, and all about “smorking” 18 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Goodbye to New York, examining Japan’s Buddhism and Shinto religions, Buddhist Altars, and fun linguistic coincidences 18 years ago
Your Friend in Japan My hop to New York, narrowly dodging staying in the city’s worst hotel, and comparing it to the Star Wars Cantina 18 years ago
Your Friend in Japan A big scandal in the Japanese Pentagon, fine dining in Tokyo, and Japan and its Beverly Hills 90210 connection. 18 years ago
Your Friend in Japan The plight of the poor Japanese taxi driver, finding government waste very close to home, and how to sound like a dirty old man in Japanese 18 years ago
Your Friend in Japan On speaking a language without using sentence subjects, the joy of funny English all around me, and a golden “Santa-san”? 18 years ago
Your Friend in Japan All about “joshiki” (Common Sense) and the Japanese, negative aspects of this, and some thoughts on turkey 18 years ago
Your Friend in Japan My family treating me like an “American,” thoughts on learning a foreign language, and the pain of sitting in “seiza” style 18 years ago
Your Friend in Japan The joy of “onigiri” rice balls, observations on cooperative elements of Japanese language, and man, that’s a really Nice Boat! 18 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Thoughts on Japan and group culture in anime, hard and difficult areas of Japanese, English etc., and various mysteries of life in Japan 18 years ago
Your Friend in Japan All about Japanese swords, thoughts on the “horse with a heart mark” and government, and, can you ski? 18 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Foreigners’ relationship with Japanese slippers, International Pocky Day, and reading my wife’s English homework from 20 years ago 18 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Finding the geographic center of American English, adventures in New Zealand with plenty of sheep, and getting complimented on chopstick use 18 years ago
Your Friend in Japan A useful Japanese slang word, changing in the Japanese savings rate, and one “key” to understanding Japan and America (?)… 18 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Funny moments in Japan, Tokyo’s famous Asakusa district, and limitations of Japanese “humility” 18 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Thoughts on biculturalism and Halloween, types of ramen you should try, and my fascination with Japanese females 18 years ago
