Your Friend in Japan My Narita Reconsideration, a very useful Japanese mantra, and an important virtue for Japanese to have 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” 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan The value of spending a year abroad, various definitions of “bilingual,” and observations on Japanese females 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 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% 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 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Notes from Anime Expo, culture shock and toilets, all about MOS Burger, and fun in Graceland 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 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Fun with my talking car, the act of reading Japanese, and new business ideas in Japan 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 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Nostalgia and the Showa Era, a serious definition of “coincidence” and World Cup bad news 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 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Benefits from Japan’s homogeneous culture, drawbacks to living in Japan, and the Japanese futon defined 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Peter’s recommendations for karaoke, how kanji works, and where Japanese company names come from 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 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 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Japan’s education and going to school on Saturdays, the Protestant Work Ethic in Japan, and all about Japanese dentists 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Election comparisons in Japan and California, Marie Antoinette’s anime connection, and wow, a dollar buys so much! 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan The first Japanese person to visit the USA, new tragedy of Japan’s society, and all about Japanese culture shock 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Looking back on 15 years of anime fandom, Japan’s culture of flowers, and pouring your own drink 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Aya Ueto’s hit drama in Japan, how my son perceives English grammar as music, and what a “cat’s tongue” means 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan All about Pizza in Japan, how Japanese social relationships work smoothl, and things I’ve learned about my brain 20 years ago
Your Friend in Japan Our trip to Tokyo, Japan’s strange connection with Peru, alcoholic green tea, and what Jabba the Hutt can teach you about linguistics 20 years ago
