Our trip to Hiroshima and the wrong places to bring electronics
It's good to be back home! We were only gone four nights, but traveling around Japan with your 65-year-old mother ...
It's good to be back home! We were only gone four nights, but traveling around Japan with your 65-year-old mother ...
Hello again from Japan, the home of such products as Mapple (map book), Crunky (crunchy chocolate) and Quickle Wiper (floor ...
We woke up to a world of white this morning, as the Kanto area (the flat plain where Tokyo is ...
Hello all. I'm running later than usual because my dentist needed to fix my teeth today, Wednesday, rather than Tuesday, ...
Hello all. Finishing a busy week, and am looking forward to taking the kids to the onsen, that is, hot ...
Hello all. Last post of 2004. So far I'm having fun with this blog and have decided to move my ...
We had fun at Tokyo Disneyland. It was threatening to rain the whole time, but it didn't, so we knew ...
Japanese television is always interesting, with a broad mix of entertaining things to watch. Variety shows, which feature popular "talents" ...
Japan is very technically advanced, and no where is this more evident than in the market for portable phones, called ...
Hello to everyone in J-List land. It's time for another installment of the J-List Infrequent Updates, for people who receive ...
The Japanese import many words from other languages for use in their daily lives. Usually the words are from English, ...
Hello again from Japan, where the law that governs private ownership of weapons is known as the Swords and Firearms ...
Hello again from Japan, the home of Melon Soda, a popular soft drink here (good with vanilla ice cream in ...
One of the biggest surprises any foreigner living in Japan receives is when he sees his first Japanese right wingers, ...
Hello again from J-List!Japanese family names can be interesting to study. Generally, family names are written with two kanji, using ...
Hello again from all your friends in Japan!Now that the ban on Japanese cultural imports has been lifted in South ...
Hello again from J-List. Once again I've made the hop across the Pacific and am safely back in Japan. Of ...
Hello and Happy Monday from all your friends in Japan!Japan is buzzing about the special summit between Prime Minister Koizumi ...
We appear to have had a hiccup with our listserver, which caused Monday's update to not be delivered to some ...
Hello from Japan, where stores play Auld Lang Syne to signal to customers that the store is about to close.Den ...
Hello again from Japan, where the statement "not by the hair of my chinny chin chin" means something else entirely...First ...
Hello again from all your friends at J-List!There are many expats living in Japan from a broad mix of countries ...
Hello again from all of us at J-List!Despite the fact that Japanese are the longest-lived race (or the 2nd longest ...
Hello again from all of us at J-List!Rice is the staple food of Japan, and it's eaten pretty much two ...