Tag: cars

Over the weekend we got a new car, a Mazda CX-5. It's a fun and sporty small SUV that seemed ...

Last time I talked about Obon, the Japanese Buddhist holiday in which families welcome the souls of departed family members ...

As with all all countries, each Japanese city naturally has its own style and flair. Kyoto is the ancient capital ...

The London Olympics are going on right now, and throughout Japan fans are watching the drama of the games unfold. ...

Pachinko is the national pastime of Japanese men, and most anytime you drive by one of the many pachinko parlors ...

As I often write here, each nation has a unique "national character" which the Japanese call kokumin-sei. Part of Japan's ...

J-List is based in Gunma, a prefecture said to be shaped like a crane in flight, located in the exact ...

Japan is a small country, which has to fit slightly less than half the population of the U.S. into an ...

Although Japan is a land crisscrossed by trains, cars are still needed to get around unless you happen to live ...

One thing I've noticed about the Japanese: they're very good at is appreciating nostalgia, and on any given day you're ...

One of the most important concepts in daily life in Japan is shin'yo (SHIN-yo), which means "trust," and when Japanese ...

One of the themes of being an American expat in Japan is discovering how much the country has taken various ...

I saw that the iRobot company recently released a new line of their Roomba robotic vacuum cleaners which had been ...

All in all, "here are your gums" is not something you'd expect to hear outside a discussion of orthodontics, but ...

Well, my long sojourn in the U.S. is finally at an end, and I'm returning to Japan with my son ...

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

We're having a great time here at Anime Expo in Los Angeles, meeting fans and customers and selling lots of ...

If there's a Golden Rule in Japan, it's that you should never cause meiwaku, translatable as inconvenience or trouble, to ...

The other day I went to buy a bicycle. (Random aside, in Japanese the English word "bike" always refers to ...

Today marks one month since the terrible earthquake and tsunamis that caused so much devastation in Japan. It's been a ...

When we went to the U.S. last month we rode the train from Los Angeles to San Diego, and this ...

Japan continues reeling from the aftermath of the massive 9.0 magnitude earthquake -- actually a series of concurrent quakes in ...

Here's a little observation I've made: when something gets "too" popular, it will peak then rapidly lose popularity for a ...

I saw that NBC and SyFy has cancelled Stargate: Universe series after two seasons. Since I'm currently (and belatedly) watching ...