Tag: Anime

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 ...

First of all, we've done a nice redesign of the J-List and JBOX.com websites, improving the look of the graphics ...

Hello from Las Vegas, where my wife and I have come for some R&R without the kids, which is always ...

Ask any gaijin living in Japan about dentists, and you'll be sure to get an earful. While Japanese dentists are ...

Humor is a very cultural thing, and it's fun to analyze the things people from different countries consider amusing -- ...

No work is ever created in a vacuum, and everything is constantly being influenced by everything else. Every time I ...

Japanese have always impressed me as a very stable people, often living their entire lives in the same area and ...

Hello again from Japan, where you can find "goma ice" -- that's sesame seed flavored ice cream to you and ...

Hello from Japan, where the Mazda Miyata is known as the Mazda Roadster, but through unlucky phonetic accident, 99% of ...

My Otaku Reconsideration Portrait of an Otaky #1187by Peter R. PayneNote: the following is an article I wrote way back ...

Hello from all of us at J-List. We've been busy bees all day and have a great update of products ...

Hello, where in children's games like Hide and Seek or Tag, the person who is "it" is referred to as ...