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Japan is a nation founded on construction, and much of the country's modern economy is derived from building roads, bridges, ...

Japan is a nation founded on construction, and much of the country's modern economy is derived from building roads, bridges, ...

I've always been impressed with how serious Japan is about education, and a lot of energy is spent on coming ...

The Japanese love movies, and watch a lot of them. Happily for gaijin like myself, they usually prefer watching U.S. ...

Hello again from Japan, the home of "rinse in shampoo" (which means shampoo that contains cream rinse in it). One ...

The month of December means many things: Christmas, spending time with loved ones, and what the Japanese call "shiwasu," that ...

Hello again from Japan. We're very sorry with the problems with the site after the last update -- we had ...

Lightning strikes! Twice before the J-List office has had the bad luck of being struck by lightning, frying our main ...

Just as almost all aspects of modern European culture have their basis in Rome and Greece, much of Japan's culture ...

My Japanese mother-in-law remarked the other day that, "You don't see women with big stomachs very often these days." At ...

There are big problems in China as demonstrators in several cities engage in protests against Japan, calling for boycotts of ...

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 ...