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Japan is a special place, and when foreigners visit the country for the first time it's a truly magical thing ...

The other day I called the hotel I usually stay at whenever I go to Tokyo -- Hotel Mets Shibuya, ...

In accordance with the Treaty of San Francisco, I'm required to blog about certain core Japan-related concepts every year or ...

If you visit the Lumine Man department store in Shibuya you'll find something pretty cool: a huge display of Evangelion ...

There are two people named Amuro in Japanese popular culture. One of them is Amuro Ray, the young boy who ...

I often get mail from people planning a trip to Tokyo, asking me to recommend some sightseeing spots. While there ...

One interesting aspect of the Japanese is how concerned they are with how they appear to foreigners, especially from the ...

I took a trip down to Tokyo yesterday for a meeting with a company about some dating-sim games. As usual, ...

Do you know the story of Japan's most famous dog? His name was Hachi, an Akita dog who was owned ...

Whenever I go to Tokyo, I start to pay more attention to my surroundings when the train hits Omiya, a ...

The subject of Japan's police is an interesting one. Japan's boys in blue are organized under the umbrella of the ...

I was in Tokyo over the weekend, waiting for a friend at the most famous meeting place in Japan, the ...

Tokyo is a large and complex place. Many areas of the city are famous for different things, like Akihabara for ...

I had fun over the weekend, heading into Tokyo to go drinking with some friends. We hit the "Lost in ...

Tokyo is the sprawling capital of Japan, home to 12 million people, a number which rises by several million during ...

Maybe my post on Wednesday about the Japanese not seeming to care about government waste was read by someone important. ...

Recently we took our daughter to a resort hotel in Kusatsu, a hot springs town in the mountains with more ...

Well, the race for the leadership of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party is over, and the calm, moderate Yasuo Fukuda has ...

We're still here at Anime Expo in Long Beach, and it's been a real blast. Monday is the last day ...

We've been in "buy a car" mode for the past few weeks, driving around to various dealers to see their ...

Television (which turns 80 today) in Japan can be quite entertaining, and sometimes its fun to sit back on the ...

One concept that's always interested me is joshiki (JOH-sh'kee) the Japanese "universal common sense" or knowledge that all reasonable people ...

Japan has a reputation for being a peaceful place with very little in the way of violence, giant monsters emerging ...

Just as Americans are accustomed to thinking of our country as a union of semi-soverign states, each with its own ...