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Tomorrow is Valentine's Day, when millions of Japanese males will wake up hoping to receive chocolate from their wives, girlfriends, ...

Modern anime series usually go out of their way to set themselves in actual locations, which adds realism and also ...

Japan's love of cuteness has become famous all around the world, to the point that the word 可愛い kawaii can ...

The Japanese are big fans of designating certain days as special. May 4th is Ramune Day, commemorating the launch of ...

Every once in a while Japan does something that makes you stop and say, "wait, what?" Like when they advertised ...

If you want to make an anime drinking game, there are plenty of classic situations you can start with. Like, ...

There are certain things the Japanese just seem to really like for reasons that are difficult for foreigners to understand. ...

One good thing about living in Japan is that it's a very safe country where you're unlikely to meet with ...

"The distance from Earth to space is the same as from Tokyo to Hakone, about 50 miles/80 km." This was ...

One thing I had to get used to as an American living in Japan was how British things could be ...

I write a lot about how Japan is one of the safest and most peaceful countries in the world. Murders ...

While quaint shopping arcades are certainly nice, the flip-side of life in Japan is that things can be rather backwards ...

The Japanese have a unique relationship with the United States, and many are fascinated with our culture, from Hollywood to ...

All things considered, Japan is a pretty safe country to live in, generally free from a lot of things that ...

Japanese Urban Legends and...Totoro? As with any culture, the Japanese are susceptible to urban legends, the (usually mistaken) beliefs that ...

Japan is, on the whole, a very safe place. The number of murders in the entire country is among the ...

I like to use Twitter (and Facebook, and Google+) to keep up with our customers and send random links about ...

I've written before about how one of the more pleasant aspects of living in Japan is that people tend to ...

One of the best aspects of living in Japan is the honesty and integrity of Japanese people, and as a ...

One thing I love about the Japanese people is their deep passion for their children, something I've observed firsthand as ...

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

One impression foreigners get when they come to Japan is how nice and polite most Japanese people are, always saying ...

It never fails: you're just going along, minding your own business when suddenly Japan comes out of nowhere and surprises ...

I remember when I first started learning Japanese, I wondered how Japanese text entry could work on a computer. I ...