Back in the USA, and ‘cultural bridges’ to Japan.
I've made the top from Japan to the U.S., and now we're at the Phoenix Comicon, a super fun event ...
I've made the top from Japan to the U.S., and now we're at the Phoenix Comicon, a super fun event ...
Over the weekend I decided to visit Kiryu, a pleasant city near J-List that's known as "Little Kyoto" because of ...
The other day I saw an image bouncing around the Internet that showed Japanese high school students cleaning their classrooms, ...
Mrs. J-List is visiting Australia with a friend for a week, so I've got the house to myself, which is ...
Hello again from Japan! We're in the middle of the Golden Week holidays, so it's quiet around here. We hope ...
As the new anime season progresses, I've been doing my best to keep up with the major series, and mostly ...
There are certain difficulties Westerners face when coming to Japan. The language is a problem, of course, especially outside cities ...
In addition to trying to revive the Japanese economy through his "Abenomics" reforms (which have had the effect of making ...
The concept of 萌え moé can be quite deep. Coined around 1993 in response to (according to one theory) the ...
We're entering a special time in WWII-related history, when the 70th anniversary of many iconic wartime events will be arriving ...
The current anime season is winding down, and as usual I'm scrambling to finish the shows I've been following before ...
I realized I'd missed the new film from Nitroplus called Rakuen Tsuihou: Expelled From Paradise, so I decided to watch ...
One of my favorite Japan-related concepts is 和洋折衷 wayoh setchu, which means "a blend of both Japanese and Western influences." ...
While the United States has some amazing history under its belt, something about being from a relatively "young" country has ...
I love to look at the ways language and culture are intertwined, allowing us to learn about one as we ...
We had a site issue which kept product images from showing for several hours over the weekend. If you were ...
When I came to Japan in 1991, one of my first impressions was that the country must be a dangerous ...
As I wrote in Friday's J-List post, the first anime that really called me into the welcome folds of Japanese ...
Tomorrow is Valentine's Day, when millions of Japanese males will wake up hoping to receive chocolate from their wives, girlfriends, ...
It's interesting to analyze the humorous visual elements animators use to make their characters seem more alive. Like a character ...
Last Friday several members of the J-List staff and I drove down to Tokyo Big Sight, the sprawling convention center ...
yuri, plus Japan's love of fax machines. I started another anime series last night called Koufuku Graffiti (Gourmet Girl Graffiti ...
I started watching a new "harem" anime series called Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata, or Saekano: How to Raise a Boring ...
I was having trouble deciding what to write for today's post, so I decided to ask J-List's Facebook and Twitter ...