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When I was in Narita Airport I was browsing in a bookstore while we waited for our flight, and I ...

Happy New Year to everyone, and best wishes for a safe and peaceful 2011 from your friends in Japan at ...

We're looking ahead to 2011 already, and we think it's going to be a great year, with many fun and ...

One of my favorite weekend activities is hitting an onsen, or hot springs bath, and I'm fortunate that J-List is ...

I write a lot about the different memes that come along in Japan, and how they interact with the Internet ...

The rapid changes brought by the Internet have forced just about every industry to adapt. Anime is no different, and ...

The word otaku has come to represent the culture both in Japan and around the world of embracing awesomely nerdy ...

My daughter's mid-term tests are coming up soon, so she's been studying to prepare for them. Although she can recite ...

If you've ever spoken with a Japanese person at length, you may have noticed them making strange "agreeing noises" while ...

One Japanese TV show I watch every once in a while is "Unbelievable!" in which famed Japanese director and squeaking ...

I've written before about how people who are bilingual actually develop separate personalities for each language, and it's interesting to ...

Ever since the Internet showed up, our lives have been greatly enriched by companies offering amazing services, like YouTube or ...

It's interesting to see how the Internet continues to change the world we live in. In Japan, it's common for ...

I write often about how Japanese consider themselves to be a decade or so "behind" the U.S. and Europe, and ...

They're known as Takeshima in Japan, Dokdo in Korea, and internationally as the Lincourt Rocks: two ridiculously small volcanic islands ...

If you've listened to spoken Japanese at all you've probably heard the word desu, often pronounced with the last syllable ...

I saw that super-cute Japanse idol/actress/singer Yuko Ogura (age 24) has been awarded the prestigious (?) First Gravure Idol Award ...

I like to read sci-fi novels with mind-bogglingly big ideas in them. One series I enjoyed was the Uplift Saga ...

One of the things I've liked about my years of learning Japanese is what I've come to call the "joy ...

I caught a report on TV the other day about a unique problem Japanese companies are facing. It seems that ...

I've always been amazed at how expressive the Japanese can be, whether they're inventing new English words to describe products ...

If you were to plan a picnic, you might pack a basket containing things like sandwiches, potato salad or maybe ...

I got a reminder that Japan is very much a part of the Pacific Ring of Fire yesterday when a ...

That old planet Earth, she just keeps on getting smaller and smaller, and it's a lot of fun to sit ...