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One thing I've always been impressed with is the "cultural footprint" of Japan, which is just a small country in ...

Sometimes part of the fun of studying a language like Japanese is "surfing" the linguistic elements that are different from ...

You never, as they say, forget your first, and I've found this goes for studying kanji, too. While the first ...

I often write about a useful method for understanding Japan through the concept of kata, a word that can mean ...

One interesting aspect of Japan is that they're the only country in the world that cares what foreigners think about ...

Sometimes part of the fun of studying a language like Japanese is "surfing" the linguistic elements that are different from ...

There are many ways to help a program of Japanese study be successful, including taking an active interest in popular ...

Japan has a new leader, Yoshihiko Noda, who will be sworn in as Japan's 95th Prime Minister on Friday. It ...

One useful way of understanding Japan as a whole is using the idea of kata, a word that can mean ...

Although many Japanese will tell you they have no religion, when all is said and done Japan is a Buddhist ...

A few days ago my Japanese wife's uncle finally succumbed to his illness and passed away at the age of ...

San Diego has a vibrant Asian community, and driving down the Convoy Street will introduce you to a wealth of ...

I've written before about how one interesting way to make sense of Japan is through the concept of kata, a ...

One way of making sense of Japan is through the concept of kata, a word which means "form" and which ...

At J-List, we like to encourage interest in learning Japanese, since it's such a rewarding language to study whether you're ...

Sometimes part of the fun of studying a language like Japanese is "surfing" the linguistic elements that are totally different ...

I love getting a haircut in Japan. The barber shop I use rents space inside a lobby of a large ...

You probably know that the Japanese have an extensive custom of bowing as a greeting or to show thanks or ...

There are many good things about living in Japan. For one thing, it's a world of potentially endless mystery, where ...

You probably don't think about Douglass MacArthur very much, but to the Japanese, he's quite a figure. As Supreme Commander ...

Over the weekend I took my son out for a bowl of gyudon, steamed beef over rice, the most popular ...

Being an American in rural Japan can be a challenge, and while I do my best to fit in with ...

The end of an era for this particular gaijin has come. In the past, foreigners were permitted to drive in ...

If you want to get married on the cheap in Japan, I suggest you do it on Butsumetsu ("Buddha's Death"), ...