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America's election is almost here, and the whole world is watching, including the Japanese, who get regular reports from the ...

2008 marks a special event: the 1000th anniversary of the completion of The Tale of Genji, the famous story penned ...

Japan has the best Internet connectivity in the world, according to a newly released study which compared actual data-transfer rates ...

The most common word for "foreigner" in Japanese is gaijin, written using the characters for "outside" and "person." While ostensibly ...

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

I write a lot about how Japan is a homogenous place where everyone considers themselves as having come from the ...

Well, the International Day of the iPhone is here, when Apple's new 3G iPhone launches around the world. In Japan, ...

You never know what's going to get popular in Japan next: maybe horn-rimmed glasses will suddenly come back into vogue, ...

Japan has been undergoing a "Miyazaki Prefecture Boom," lately, thanks to its governor, former TV comedian Sonomanma Higashi, a discovery ...

When Japanese think of foreigners, they think of overly tall, blonde Americans or Europeans with huge feet, trying to find ...

A lot has changed in the 17 years that I've lived in Japan. I arrived here in 1991, also known ...

The subject of religion in Japan is a complex one. The two main religious traditions here are Buddhism, which was ...

The history of Buddhism in Japan is long, going back to the very beginning of the country's historical age, since ...

I've often been impressed with the open nature of discussion I've seen on Japanese television, with several shows that really ...

Japan's Pachinko industry continues to innovate in interesting ways as it tries to appeal to new kinds of customers, and ...

It's winter in Japan right now, the season for one of my favorite dishes, nabe (NAH-beh). The word means "pot" ...

The J-List staff had fun at our New Year's Party on Friday, and afterwards we engaged in that famous Japanese ...

Yesterday my wife and I went to our favorite restaurant and noticed that the girl who had been working there ...

I've caught the "Lost" bug, and am enjoying watching the series on DVD here in San Diego. One interesting aspect ...

Unlike the U.S. or most of Europe, Japan is a very homogenous country, where people tend to consider themselves part ...

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Is teen heart-throb Zac Efron, the so-called "next Brad Pitt," an otaku? That's the question asked in a Japanese magazine ...

Perceptions are funny things, and it's surprising how easily they can be wrong. One day a student of mine asked ...

First, we apologize for an outage on the J-List and JBOX.com websites, which was caused by a bad router at ...