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There are certain unique things about Japan. They have cars with names like Perky, Sunny and Mitsubishi Thanks Chariot. Taxi ...

There are some things I like about Japan. Drinking a can of hot "corn soup" on the train platform during ...

I started going to a gym to try to get into shape. To be honest, I was kind of undecided ...

I write often about how vague and imprecise the Japanese language can be, and how easy it is for foreigners ...

As you probably know, I love Japan's culture of onsen, bathing in volcanic hot springs. But nothing good in life ...

There are many things I like about Japan, like turning on the kotatsu for the first time in winter, eating ...

One of my favorite weekend activities is hitting an onsen, or hot springs bath, and I'm fortunate that J-List is ...

One thing you have to understand about the Japanese is, they like lists, such as the Three Beautiful Sights of ...

There are a lot of good things about living in Japan. Good food, from sushi to sashimi to Indian curry. ...

The other day I was at the local hot springs bath, washing myself after getting a haircut. (Barber shops located ...

I love Japanese public baths (sento) and hot springs (onsen, pronounced "own-sen"), and have gone with my kids for years. ...

On the weekends I like to go on trips with my family, most often to an onsen (volcanic hot springs) ...

One of the themes I write about often is the Japanese idea of joshiki, translatable as the knowledge that every ...

About 100 km south of Tokyo there's an interesting resort town called Atami, whose onsen (volcanic hot spring baths) have ...

"If Burger King married Dairy Queen, their child would be Jack in the Box." This bit of wisdom was uttered ...

One interesting aspect of the Japanese is how superstitious they can be, at least as seen from my contemporary American ...

You may know the Japanese word sumimasen, which generally corresponds to "excuse me" and is one of the more useful ...

The Japanese are good at coming up with innovative ways of committing information to memory. Like the man who memorized ...

Japan can be such a funny place. You could be going along, minding your own business when suddenly, bam, the ...

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

When a member of one language group learns to speak another language, the laws of phonetics decree that he or ...

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

The other day I took some time off to hit one of the onsen hot springs located near J-List. My ...

Part of Peter's Unified Theory of Japan is that the Japanese are (usually) guided by a mysterious "universal common sense" ...