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Valentine's Day is an important day in Japan, a time for couples to show their affection through the medium of ...

One unexpected aspect of expat life in Japan is making friends with gaijin -- the word the Japanese use for ...

Last time I wrote about ways that U.S. companies use the imagery of America to sell products in Japan, sometimes ...

Like most parents in Japan, I closely followed the interests of my kids as they were growing up. When my ...

When I first arrived in Japan 19 years ago, I brought a lot of preconceived notions with me. Like, the ...

Like many Japanese families, my wife's parents live with us in one big house, occupying the lower floor while we ...

Although I enjoy all manner of Japanese foods from sushi to sashimi to oyako-don (literally, "parent-and-child rice bowl" consisting of ...

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

Normally when I come to the U.S. the last thing I want to do is eat Japanese food, since there ...

Like all countries, there are various foreigners living in Japan, and the "made in Japan" TV you bought last month ...

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

Well, Lost has finally ended, and I have to say thanks to the producers and cast for one wild wide. ...

Late-night TV in Japan is always fun to watch, and I like to flip through the channels to see what's ...

The Japanese government will soon be making good on its promise of distributing money to families with children, giving approximately ...

It's funny, the way fashions can seem like the coolest thing to people one year yet be embarrassingly outdated a ...

I saw a blog post that said the out-of-favor Liberal Democratic Party was considering issuing a bill to create military ...

If kimchee embodies the soul of Korea, then green tea serves the same role here. Green tea has been a ...

When a member of one language group learns to speak another language, the laws of phonetics decree that he or ...

I saw on CNN's website that Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada had officially apologized for colonizing the Korean peninsula from ...

Besides making the freeways here actually "free" -- a policy that's received surprisingly little support once people realized the horrific ...

The other day I took some time off to hit one of the onsen hot springs located near J-List. My ...

We had a nice Japanese-style New Year's at home in San Diego. After cleaning the house from top-to-bottom (known as ...

I often write about how Japan is a homogeneous place in which 99% of the people consider themselves to be ...

I wrote recently about the "peace" sign that the Japanese are fond of making whenever they see a camera, despite ...