Tag: culture

This may not exactly come as a surprise, but I love anime fandom. It's a warm and comfortable place filled ...

One of the more interesting paradoxes about Japan is the way around 70% of people here will insist they don't ...

I've been a long-time student of Internet memes, and I enjoy posting them to J-List's Twitter and Facebook pages when ...

One of the most powerful symbols of Japan is, of course, Mt. Fuji, the beautiful volcano that sits astride Shizuoka ...

One question I'm asked sometimes is, how do Japanese feel about otaku? Originally a semi-formal way to say "you" or ...

I've been a student of Japanese since that first day in 1987 when I started Higurashi-sensei's class at SDSU. (There ...

J-List has been involved with licensing and translating visual novels -- in their ecchi form they're known as bishoujo games, ...

I took a trip to Tokyo last week to see some guys about an eroge, and while I was riding ...

It's funny the way our "base culture" can shape the way we look at the world. The other day I ...

As a student of Japanese pop culture, I like to observe how 2D characters evolve and change with each new ...

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

One of my favorite aspects of Japan is definitely the train culture here, and it's always fun to take a ...

When foreigners come to Japan they're immediately enthralled with the beautiful temples and shrines they encounter here. Japan has two ...

Yesterday several J-List staff members and I went to Tokyo Big Sight to check out the International Gift Show, a ...

One of the most fascinating things about the world is the way our perceptions change as the scale we're observing ...

One of the most enigmatic people in Japan is Johnny Kitagawa, founder of Johnny & Associates (or "Johnny's Jimusho" in ...

Part of Peter's Unified Theory of Japan is that the Japanese greatly desire to be seen in a favorable light ...

Japan has been called "the only country that cares what its foreigners think," and judging from the large number of ...

Well, we've come to the end of another year. 2012 was a great year for us at J-List, with lots ...

Japan is a wonderful country, full of friendly people and vibrant culture that seems tailor-made to appeal to gaijin like ...

It's funny how we're all wired to perceive things a certain way, depending on what culture we come from. When ...

As a card-carrying fan of oldschool Japanese animation and pop culture, I make it a point to enjoy both cool ...

One of the more interesting aspects of Japan is its free-spirited culture of doujinshi, which are comics and related works ...

The Japanese election is off to a running start, and it's promising to be as urusai (noisy) as ever, with ...