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When I first arrived in Japan 19 years ago, I brought a lot of preconceived notions with me. Like, the ...

There's trouble brewing in China again as demonstrators in several cities protested against Japanese businesses, smashing the windshields of Japanese ...

Being back in Japan means getting accustomed to driving here again. Like the U.K., Australia and New Zealand, Japan drives ...

I'm convinced that people can do anything they decide they can do. For example, I'm not good at math, and ...

One of the challenges in learning Japanese is tackling kanji, which is not easy for Westerners, as it's a very ...

Driving in the U.S. after living in Japan for so long presents certain challenges. Like the U.K., Australia and New ...

If you're a fan of the PC dating-sim games J-List sells, then Christmas just came early. We've got not one, ...

Over the weekend I took a trip down to Tokyo for a business meeting and to enjoy some quality shochu ...

Japan is definitely a land of opposites, often presenting conflicting images to visitors from the outside world who are trying ...

One of the first things I did after arriving in Japan in 1991 was head down to Shinjuku, Tokyo, the ...

The Toyota Motor Company has been in the news a lot lately over quality issues with its vehicles. Akio Toyoda, ...

On Saturday I went down to Tokyo to attend an event held by stormtrooper-blogger Danny Choo. It was great fun ...

Words are complex things, and one of the challenges a person learning a language like Japanese faces is parsing everything ...

If English is your native language, make sure you give your parents a big hug next time you see them: ...

McDonald's Japan has been marketing itself in unique ways recently, such as using a parody of a gaijin called Mr. ...

Whenever we go to the U.S. for a visit, it seems we discover new differences between our two home countries, ...

Recently I wrote about how one of the more pleasant aspects of Japan was the high level of service you ...

Although large cities like Tokyo have extensive public transportation systems, out here in Gunma having a car is really a ...

Japan is often viewed as an "over-industrialized" country that doesn't value its natural environment enough, an image that Prime Minister ...

I often talk about the various unique aspects of Japanese, in part because I just think languages are cool, but ...

Having lived in Japan since the first Bush presidency, I generally feel like I've gotten used to the place..and yet, ...

Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) leader Yukio Hatoyama is all over the news these days as he prepares to take ...

My son and I are enjoying our trip to northern Japan. We had fun exploring Aomori, visiting the windswept beauty ...

This is Matsumoto Casatle, the castle we went to see today. One of the oldest and most beautiful castles in ...