Tag: Anime

Just about any aspect of Japan can provide an interesting cultural lesson, even names. In Japan, everyone has a family ...

J-List carries dozens of fun products for fans of Queen's Blade, the popular anime series which started out as a ...

One of the first things I did after arriving in Japan in 1991 was head down to Shinjuku, Tokyo, the ...

I'm always happy to offer random advice about what to see when planning a trip to Japan. While the Kansai ...

Like many people, I have an iPhone, and I carry it with me everywhere, stroking it lovingly and calling it ...

First of all, many apologies for the off-and-on server problems we've been experiencing over the past couple of days. We're ...

As a general rule, Japan is very "about" -- an English word the Japanese use to mean subtle, vague or ...

The other day I came across a site asking in all seriousness which country's animation was better, the U.S. or ...

A week or so ago, a bizarre-looking deep-sea fish called Ryugu-no-Tsukai, which Wikipedia tells me is "oarfish" in English, started ...

One of our favorite categories of product are the gorgeous artbooks in Japan, which are printed on high gloss paper ...

It's funny how anime characters tend to follow certain established patterns, like the classic dojikko clumsy girl, or the always-popular ...

There are several methods of learning a foreign language, including Grammar-Translation (learning grammar and example sentences), Total Physical Response ("Simon ...

In Japanese, there's a class of polite phrases that are useful to memorize since they're used quite almost daily. One ...

One aspect of Japan I've written about many times is the way Japanese are tickled to death when any of ...

If you've read my random musings on Japan for any length of time, you'll know I'm no small fan of ...

Recently I talked about "fake dialects" of Japanese that are often heard in anime, which can add much to the ...

Anime and manga are extremely visual media which communicate strong emotions through meticulously designed characters. To make their creations more ...

One Japanese TV show I watch every once in a while is "Unbelievable!" in which famed Japanese director and squeaking ...

You wouldn't think that a simple concept like the names we use to address others could be a source for ...

When I came to Japan back in 1991, I had a lot of pre-conceived notions about the place, many of ...

Among the many fine products J-List offers, we have a popular line of magazines which can be purchased on a ...

Sometimes the most mundane Japanese TV shows turn out to be interesting. Like one I caught the other day called ...

As a general rule, the Japanese have a very laissez faire attitude when it comes religion, blending Shinto and Buddhism ...

It's interesting to study how language and the brain interact to create our perceptions, and it's not uncommon for an ...