Tag: crime

Although you probably don't know much about how the law functions in Japan, most Japanese have at least a basic ...

Japanese swords are famous around the world, up there with ninjas and Hello Kitty as a symbol of the country. ...

Sometimes it's fun to notice the little differences between Japan and the U.S., like the way packaging of products is ...

One way to learn about Japan is through its traditional calligraphy, which uses a writing brush called a fude (FOO-day) ...

Anyone who's ever worked in a Japanese organization for any length of time probably knows the frustration of having a ...

All countries have foreigners living in their midst, whether its a Swedish college student working for a season at a ...

There's a minor hullabaloo going on between Japan and Australia right now after the publication of a controversial book on ...

We have a rule at our house: in order to help our kids become bilingual, we only watch DVDs from ...

Typhoon season has arrived in Japan, with Typhoon No. 13 (named "Shanshan" by the American weather service, although no one ...

Japan has one of the lowest birthrates of any modern nation, with just 1.38 children born per couple, which will ...

One big difference between Japan and America is the attitude people have towards land and personal mobility. In the U.S. ...

I've always believed that people will be what you expect them to be, and if you assume that people are ...

Hello and Akemashite omedetou gozaimasu to everyone. We hope you had a really fun New Year's blast -- we certainly ...

The Japanese are some of the longest-lived people on the planet, with women living 84 years and men 78 years, ...

One of the benefits to living the expat life is coming to value the things from home you used to ...

There's a minor crime wave going on in Japan right now: serial petnapping. Japan has been in the midst of ...

Although Japan likes to take a lot of cultural cues from Europe, and even pretend that it's a part of ...

One of the preconceptions I had before coming to Japan was that there were no guns here at all, so ...

My son has officially finished the third grade, and will be beginning his new adventure next month, at an experimental ...

Hello all. I'm running later than usual because my dentist needed to fix my teeth today, Wednesday, rather than Tuesday, ...

Japanese television is always interesting, with a broad mix of entertaining things to watch. Variety shows, which feature popular "talents" ...

Hello to everyone in J-List land. It's time for another installment of the J-List Infrequent Updates, for people who receive ...

The Japanese import many words from other languages for use in their daily lives. Usually the words are from English, ...

Hello again from Japan, the home of Melon Soda, a popular soft drink here (good with vanilla ice cream in ...