Tag: culture

You never know when the next boom in the anime subculture will show up. One year the hottest thing might ...

In a post I made to J-List's Facebook page about Tokyo winning the 2020 Olympics, one reader from South Korea ...

The Japanese love to make meals into something that's pleasing to the eye as well as the stomach, a tradition ...

Ever since idol culture took off in the early 1970s, Japan has had an affinity for pop idols, extremely cute ...

Living in a foreign country means more than just learning that country's language. It also means subtly taking the local ...

J-List has been involved with translating and selling visual novels, alternatively called VNs, bishoujo games, dating sims and "gal-games" since ...

August is the hottest month in Japan, a great time to enjoy shave ice and watermelon and maybe some ice ...

Over the weekend I caught the last three episodes of Ore no Imouto ga Konna Kawaii Wake Ga Nai, aka ...

Sometimes I think my family would make the basis for an interesting 4-koma manga series along the lines of Darling ...

One fun aspect of living in Japan is visiting convenience stores and seeing what new snacks have been released. While ...

I finally made time to finish the second season of Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai, ...

It's time for a new anime season, even though I still haven't caught up with the previous one. There are ...

Do the Japanese say "I love you"? It's an interesting question that touches on cultural issues as well as linguistic. ...

  J-List at San Diego Comic Con The San Diego Comic-Con has become the premier worldwide festival for celebrating all ...

Japan, of course, is a volcanic archipelago made up of four main islands, which are Honshu, the largest, about the ...

It's the calm before the storm as J-List gets ready for the San Diego Comic-Con next week, preparing the T-shirts, ...

Well, we're done with another Anime Expo, and this one was loads of fun as usual. We greeted many fans ...

One thing you learn about the Japanese people pretty quickly is that they can be quite superstitious, believing that if ...

Since I've got another couple weeks before I get busy with the anime conventions, I decided to throw a suitcase ...

It's funny, the little bits of Japanese culture you can pick up from random episodes of anime. I've been trying ...

This Saturday is the 160th anniversary of the arrival of Admiral Perry's famous "Black Ships" to Japan, an event that's ...

Ever since that dancing CG baby and "All Your Base Are Belong to Us," the Internet has run on memes, ...

One reason I'm thankful to the rise of anime and Japanese pop culture is that it's exposed so many people ...

Every large city has its Asian district, and in San Diego it's located along Convoy Avenue in the Kearny Mesa ...