Tag: Anime

How would you feel if the government lost your Social Security records, so that years of work and payments into ...

Yesterday marked the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the U.S. and Japan, which outlines ...

J-List loves being a bridge between Japan and the rest of the world and finding wacky items for our customers, ...

The world is in shock over the destruction from the terrible earthquake in Haiti, and the Japanese media has been ...

Otaku culture is fast becoming the mainstream culture of Japan, and any company that wants to succeed at selling products ...

Without a doubt, Japan is a country that loves it's seasons. At any time during casual conversation, there's a 23% ...

Happy New Year and akemashite omedetou from J-List! It's excellent to be here for another year, bringing you Japanese bento ...

Every language represents different challenges to learners. If I were to study a Romance language like Spanish, I'd need to ...

I write a lot about the Japanese concepts of senpai, an upperclassman in a school or a senior in an ...

One of the cuter -- or possibly creepier -- things that Japanese girls do is refer to themselves in the ...

The other day I got an odd hankering to watch one of my favorite Hayao Miyazaki films, Kiki's Delivery Service, ...

Unlike other nations in Asia, the Japanese have no custom of tipping for good service, and no matter how good ...

There are, of course, many kinds of foreigners living in Japan, from English teachers to engineers to web designers and ...

There are certain things you can find in a Japanese house that would be missing in most homes in the ...

In an episode of Code Geass, the anime about an alternate-reality Earth in which Japan is conquered by the evil ...

One way for companies to prosper is to be more efficient, finding ways to use technology to get more work ...

The other day I noticed a bag of rice sitting on the table. Something about the way the grains were ...

Japan squeezes about half the population of the U.S. into a country the size of California, which alone would seem ...

While it's fun to experience Japan through anime, I wonder how often some of the more subtle cultural nuances are ...

Women who use Yahoo vs. those who prefer Google -- which are sexier? That's a question posed by one ladies' ...

If you watch anime in Japanese at all, one word you will probably become aware of quickly is suki which ...

I've written about how speaking a foreign language requires a special "other" sense, which the Japanese call kan (kahn). If ...

Today is an auspicious day for anime fans everywhere: the 30th anniversary of the start of Mobile Suit Gundam, which ...

Although Japan might be famous for sake, wine distilled from rice, the beverage most people order when it's time to ...