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The Japanese are fond of assigning titles to certain days, often based on phonetics, for example February 9 is Niku-no-hi ...

No country is without problems, and the list of challenges Japan faces in the 21st century is certainly not short. ...

One thing that's good about living in a foreign country is the way you come to understand the people around ...

There are many benefits to being an American expat in Japan. When I go to concerts I'm usually tall enough ...

I see that North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has passed away, going to that Worker's Paradise in the Sky. Although ...

A couple of weeks ago I went down to Tokyo to meet with a company J-List does business with. When ...

One thing I like about Japan is their enjoyment of food, and I really appreciate their tradition of eating bento ...

While the average Japanese person on the street may think there are "a lot" of foreigners in Japan, in reality ...

One fun aspect of living in Japan is seeing how many television commercials you can watch before coming across one ...

Just as ancient Greece and Rome serve as the foundation of Western civilization, Japan looks to China as the mother ...

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

All eyes are watching the upcoming election for president of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, which will determine the ...

Being away from Japan for a long time can make a gaijin and his son yearn for real Japanese food. ...

What is your hobby? It's honestly not a question I'd given much thought to before coming to Japan, but when ...

Japan is famous as the home of hilarious "Engrish," the mistaken English signs or T-shirts you often see on the ...

Today the J-List staff is taking off work a little early in order to have the kangei-kai or "welcome party" ...

One of the joys of being an anime fan in Japan is visiting the real places seen in your favorite ...

My daughter is off to Hawaii this week on a school trip with her classmates. Japanese people and Hawaii go ...

Like Turkish, Basque and Korean, the Japanese language is an "agglutinative" language, which just means that a lot of information ...

Japan continues reeling from the aftermath of the massive 9.0 magnitude earthquake -- actually a series of concurrent quakes in ...

I happened to catch an article about some corruption scandals cropping up in India recently, which are causing some big ...

The most common word for "foreigner" in Japanese is gaijin, a term that's used to describe Westerners who are obviously ...

Kokusai kekkon (international marriage) is a popular option for Japanese who want to marry someone from outside their home country, ...

This morning my car (which has a "car navi" that greets me and tells me interesting trivia) reported that today, ...