Tag: culture

Akihabara is the area of Tokyo famous for its Electric Town shopping district and for being the international center of ...

Yesterday I went to Akihabara on business, which is always more fun than sitting behind a computer screen at the ...

One aspect of Japan I've always been impressed with is the way popular culture is closely tied to history in ...

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

The Internets have been buzzing with news that the word kawaii had been officially added to the Oxford English Dictionary, ...

I write often about Japan's love for kawaii (cute) culture, which has come to define the country as much as ...

like Twitter and Facebook because I can toss out ideas to my readers and get instant feedback from them. I ...

Today is a very special day, one I've been waiting for for a long time: Pocky Day, 2011. The Japanese ...

Ever since tear-jerkers like Clannad After Story came along, it seems more and more anime series involve stories that can ...

It's not every day you see a historical discovery that makes you exclaim, "Wow, awesome!" But that's what happened yesterday, ...

One thing I like about Japan is their enjoyment of food, and I really appreciate their tradition of eating bento ...

The Japanese are good at coming up with innovative ways of committing information to memory, like the man who memorized ...

One nice thing about living in Japan is the rail culture here, so very different from the freeway- and automobile-based ...

The relationship of the Japanese and radiation is a unique one, as they're the only people in the history of ...

Just as ancient Greece and Rome serve as the foundation of Western civilization, Japan looks to China as the mother ...

The other day I caught a CNN blog post about the term otaku, and whether it was a positive or ...

My wife is currently in South Korea with a friend, shopping and eating various delicious Korean foods. Like many Japanese, ...

The "age of JPOP idols" in Japan began in 1971, the first year the term "idol" (aidoru) was used on ...

One of my Twitter followers asked me, "How long did it take for bowing to become automatic when you learned ...

The Japanese are a very health-minded group of people, a fact observed by Aflac founder John Amos when he visited ...

Because I live outside the U.S. and only come back to visit a few times a year, it's interesting to ...

I'm one of the lucky few people in the world whose job it is to watch anime, and I've been ...

My son has joined me here in San Diego, and we're having fun doing father-and-son stuff together in the States. ...

It's funny how culture crisscrosses the globe, never stopping at such laughable things as national borders as it flows to ...