Tag: China

Whenever January rolls around, I know I'll be inundated with news reporting on how Japan's birth rate crisis has worsened. ...

In a surprising turn of events, or perhaps an unsurprising one, Chinese conglomerate Tencent Holdings looks set to gain a ...

China is cracking down on something it views as a national problem that is plaguing its youth population: video game ...

Seven Seas Entertainment, the publishing company that brought us Yes, No, or Maybe?, and the newly re-translated version of Seaside ...

While Studio Ghibli's Academy Award-winning film Spirited Away enchanted audiences across Japan and the U.S. in theaters back in the early 2000s, ...

Recently Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a summit to try to resolve the island disputes ...

Japan has received much from China over the millennia, including its early laws and culture, beautiful architecture (the city of ...

I happened to see that China had released a warning, advising the U.S. to "be concerned at the rising tide ...

Although I generally like my adopted country of Japan, there are a few aspects of life here that aren't so ...

I often write about how Japan is a homogeneous place in which 98.5% of the people consider themselves to be ...

One keyword that's big in Japan these days is チャイナリスク ("China Risk"), which describes the many potential problems that countries ...

If you browse J-List's Home & Traditional page, where we stock fun and interesting things for your home along with ...

Roughly speaking, Japan's historical relationship to China is similar to that of the West and ancient Rome and Greece: the ...

When you're a white guy studying Japanese in university, a funny thing happens: as you progress in your studies there ...

Japan is famous as the home of hilarious "Engrish," the mistaken English signs or T-shirts you often see on the ...

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

China and Japan are in the middle of a diplomatic spat after a Chinese fishing boat collided with a Japan ...

The other day, I was rolling up my sleeves to start a Photoshop job, cutting out a large image so ...

One interesting aspect of Japan is its closer cultural relationship to its nearby neighbor, China, the ultimate origin of practically ...