Your Friend in Japan What’s up with those big eyes and colored anime hair, and, understanding Japan’s great Meiji Restoration adventure 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Japanese tricks to memorize anything, fun with “companions” in Tokyo, and thoughts on evangelical Buddhism 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan More on the concept of “senpai” including “gaijin seniority,” and the cutting edge of the female pachinko market 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Reasons why we hate living next to North Korea, all about the word ‘kawaii’ and a complex social concept 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Staying healthy with “Ningen Dock,” being tormented by images of Kyoto, and the Japan-Helen Keller connection 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Lessons we could learn from Japan about “safety driving,” pointing with the middle finger, and trivia on Japanese toilets 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Returning to my Otaku roots, my adventures in a “capsule hotel,” and what the Japanese really eat 20 years ago
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 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Language learning and the “Han Solo Factor,” example of silly English in product names, and more 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Peter tastes local politics, the Joba horse-riding machine, and more info on blood types 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Broken stereotypes of the Japanese, Japan’s love affair with “overseas dramas,” and Autumn, season of healthy appetites 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Politicial life after Koizumi, being at peace with taking your shoes off, and why Taro can’t code 20 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 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Thuoghts on “car culture” in Japan, the basics of how kanji work, and autumn = school sports day 20 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 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan More ways we foreigners can save Japan, all about “Nihonjinron” and superstitions about death 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! 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 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Japan’s most famous businessmen, when not to laugh at your students, and all about our prefecture 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan The hierarchy of language in Japan, trouble for “unhurried education” and, is my wife a Desperate Housewife? 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Stereotypes of foreigners by Japanese including Girls from Ipanema, Japan’s “other” staple food, and more 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan New “keitai” phones for my family, all about Japanese names, and the Pluto – Gamilon connection 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Understanding how perceptions of foreigners affects us, learning culture through anime, and time to study some Japanese! 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 20 years ago
