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Humans like to mark special events by commemorating them on their calendars, and Japan is no different. February 9 is ...

Google has radically changed the way we get information, and if you have a question about something -- say, about ...

There are certain things about Asia that can be surprising at first. When my son was a young boy we ...

J-List has a popular Facebook page, and today I decided to do another open post, asking readers to list any ...

Transliteration is the act of transcribing words from one writing system to another, and it's an inherently imprecise process because ...

Yesterday I went down to Tokyo Big Sight with Mai, the talented J-List employee who keeps our site stocked with ...

When former Tokyo Governor Naoki Inose was forced to resign over a $500,000 "loan" made to his campaign last year, ...

Every once in a while Japan does something that makes you stop and say, "wait, what?" Like when they advertised ...

My family and I are back from our trip to the island of Cebu in the Philippines. We had a ...

I saw a report on Bloomberg that talked about anime as "Japan's most influential export" in the 21st century, as ...

China has caused an international stir by unilaterally declaring a chunk of the East China Sea as its exclusive "Air ...

The other day I watched Pacific Rim, a movie I'd not managed to catch in theaters due to my convention ...

The anime industry has certainly gone through changes over the years. You could break it down into different eras, perhaps ...

I took a couple of days off this week to travel with an Italian friend of mine to Hakone, a ...

There's a lot of food to love in Japan, from sushi and sashimi to large nabe (pot dishes) like sukiyaki ...

You probably take it for granted that during the course of your day you'll come into contact with people from ...

Well, our time at Anime Weekend Atlanta is done, and we're sorry to see it end. We had a blast, ...

I had some trouble finding a hotel to stay at after the NitroPlus event, so I decided to stay in ...

One of the more unique aspects of Japan is its homogeneous society in which 98% of the people consider themselves ...

Japan, of course, is located in Asia -- though sometimes it seems the country would rather be part of Europe ...

Last weekend I was casting around for something to do, so I decided to hit an onsen (pronounced "own-sen"), the ...

I watch more than a little late-night Japanese TV, and I enjoy its light- hearted goofiness. The other night I ...

I took a trip down to Tokyo yesterday to have a meeting with NitroPlus, the innovative company behind Steins;Gate and ...

I'm safely back in Japan, the land where everything is extremely clean and well-ordered. Now I'm trying to get used ...