Tag: bathing

Over the weekend Mrs. J-List and I took a drive up to Nikko for a relaxing dip in an onsen. ...

Although the Japanese may have a reputation of being quite open-minded when it comes to sex, what with their open ...

I saw that the U.S. had taken action to freeze the assets of a major yakuza group in the U.S., ...

J-List is based in Gunma, a landlocked prefecture in the exact center of Japan that's said to be shaped like ...

One of the most useful words of Japanese is sumimasen, which generally corresponds to "excuse me," though like most aspects ...

It's always interesting to explore the "when worlds collide" moments between Japan and the U.S. Tomo, the J-List employee who ...

It's fun to study the history of the memes that pop up in anime. Every time you watch an onsen ...

One thing I like about Japan is the importance placed on truth in advertising. In TV commercials for products like ...

With any language, there are certain words that are guaranteed to cause problems for foreigners -- our brains excel at ...

There are many differences between Japan and the U.S. For example, America has way more lawyers -- 1 for every ...

My son and I had a blast up in northern Japan. Our first stop was the city of Sapporo, the ...

For the past few months I've been seeing those awesomely-designed advertisements promoting tourism in Japan's northern Tohoku region, damaged so ...

It's funny the way a person's perceptions of a place can be influenced by stereotypes. For example, there are many ...

Yesterday I took a day off from work and went down to Tokyo for an appointment I had. As the ...

Back when I was single, I did a fair bit of traveling around Japan, hitchhiking or riding trains on "Youth ...

Today is the 17th anniversary of the Great Hanshin Earthquake, which destroyed the city of Kobe and greatly damaged nearby ...

Last time I wrote about our trip to Taiwan, which was both chaotic and fun. While I couldn't make myself ...

When you go to an onsen (OWN-sen), a hot springs bath, it's important to have all the essentials with you, ...

A few weeks ago I took some time off to go up to an onsen resort in the mountains with ...

The other day I decided my hair had grown long enough, and that it was time to go get it ...

Over the weekend I took off work early and headed up to the mountains around Gunma to a pleasant onsen ...

J-List is located in Gunma Prefecture, a ho-hum place 100 km north of Tokyo that's famous for...well, nothing, really. Gunma ...

Since I had the weekend to myself, I decided to pick the farthest onsen I could get to conveniently and ...

Anime, of course, is rife with fun memes that have emerged over the years, passed from creators to fans and ...