Tag: Buddhism

One of the coolest images of Japan, to me, are the Daruma, the unique red, roundish dolls that are quite ...

The Christmas holiday means different things to different people, and each country has its own way of observing it. By ...

You've been in Japan too long when you see a road with two lanes going in the same direction and ...

Ogenki desu ka? This is one of the first phrases a student of Japanese encounters, and it corresponds to the ...

Hello again from J-List. Well, Otakon is over, the 20,000+ anime fans have gone home, and I'm headed back to ...

It's once again that time most feared by foreigners living in Japan: election season, when white-gloved Japanese politicians drive around ...

Hello from beautiful Kyoto! I took a couple of days off work to take my mother, who is visiting from ...

Japan is the land of the "boom." One year it's health drinks laced with amino acids, the next it's ring ...

Hello again from Japan, the home of such products as Mapple (map book), Crunky (crunchy chocolate) and Quickle Wiper (floor ...

Hello all. It's Monday but because today is Coming-of-Age Day (see below), the kids have school off, even though they ...

Hello all. Last post of 2004. So far I'm having fun with this blog and have decided to move my ...

First of all, happy day after Thanksgiving, if you're in the U.S. -- we hope everyone had a warm and ...

During my time here in Japan, I've had the pleasure of meeting a wide range of Japanese people, from children ...

One interesting social concept I see at work a lot in Japan is the idea of "gaman," which means to ...

Hello again from Japan, where going to Kentucky always means going out for fried chicken.Happy Birthday to Hello Kitty! When ...

Japan can sure be a perplexing place. When you buy a can of beer for 200 yen, it's a given ...

Hello and T.G.I.F. from everyone on the J-List team!It's fall, and that means it's the season for school sports festivals, ...

Hello and T.G.I.F. from everyone on the J-List team!It's fall, and that means it's the season for school sports festivals, ...

Sunday was the centennial of the death of Lafcadio Hearn, one of the first gaijin to "turn Japanese" and live ...

Japan can be a superstitious place, with many beliefs that people in the West would have trouble understanding. Some of ...

You probably know that the Japanese eat whale, which is "kujira" in Japanese (some trivia for you: Godzilla got his ...

Hello again from J-List. It's time for another slice of life from your friends in Japan.The Japanese name registry (koseki) ...

Hello again from all of us at J-List!It seems that a Japanese city can't be complete until it has a ...

Hello and TGIF from all of us in Japan!Part of the fun of living in Japan is watching Japanese TV, ...