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One of the coolest images of Japan, to me, are the Daruma, the unique red, roundish dolls that are quite ...

Humor is a very cultural thing, and it's fun to analyze the things people from different countries consider amusing -- ...

Doujinshi are the fan-created comic-books which have become a huge sub-culture here in Japan. The word literally means "same-person-magazine" and ...

Have you had Tuna Spaghetti recently? I did for lunch, and it was really good, a fresh marinara sauce with ...

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

No work is ever created in a vacuum, and everything is constantly being influenced by everything else. Every time I ...

Japan is preparing to host the 34th G8 Summit, to be held at beautiful Lake Toya in Hokkaido this July. ...

One interesting side effect of studying a foreign language like Japanese is finding yourself naturally fixating on various aspects of ...

The next time you're in Japan, I suggest you check out the maid cafes that can be found mostly around ...

On the whole, Japan is pretty functional as a Western-style democracy. Politicians make laws which are executed by the nation's ...

Japan is a great place, and I love living here. The country is beautiful, the culture always new and fascinating, ...

We hope you had a wonderful Christmas holiday, wherever you are in the world. We had a great day, complete ...

Japanese swords are famous around the world, up there with ninjas and Hello Kitty as a symbol of the country. ...

The other day my wife asked me what a "window-breaker" was. I assumed she was asking about a type of ...

Last time I mentioned the "second childhood" I'd enjoyed as a student of Japanese. It's true -- learning a foreign ...

I'm enjoying my time here in Annapolis, as we get ready for Otakon, the wildest anime convention on the East ...

What a difference an elongated vowel can make. Japanese is quite different from English, having had a totally unique developmental ...

Well, once again I've made the hop from Japan to San Diego, which takes about 24 hours from door to ...

One of the more interesting aspects of Japan is the top-down nature of its society, how it's ostensibly structured in ...

Japan takes its baseball seriously, and right now the whole country is closely watching Daisuke Matsuzaka as he starts his ...

Japan is a very seasonal place, with specific things done only during the appropriate times of year. August is when ...

I sometimes find myself thinking back to my college days when I first started learning Japanese, and it never fails ...

As an expat American living away from my home country, it's sometimes interesting to ask the Japanese people around me ...

Sunday was my father's meinichi, the anniversary of the day he died nine years ago (although Japanese are always puzzled ...