Tag: culture

What is your hobby? It's honestly not a question I'd given much thought to before coming to Japan, but when ...

We've now hopped from Los Angeles to Las Vegas for some hardcore R&R and perhaps a little gambling. It's been ...

If you've watched more than a few anime series, you'll know that clubs are an important part of life in ...

Japan certainly has the power to confuse us with strange and wonderful things, and Japanese popular culture can be very ...

I like analyzing the little cultural memes I see in Japan, for example what kinds of things are considered "romantic" ...

Recently I talked about how the members of the wider online community of people fascinated with Japan and its popular ...

It's interesting, the subtle things you can pick up from anime, which go beyond the story you're watching. I recently ...

Japan is finishing up its Golden Week holidays, and since several of the J-List staff have been taking a few ...

It must be strange, having a professional otaku for a dad. Just by living in Japan, my kids (daughter aged ...

When new Japanese employees come to work at J-List it's an interesting learning experience for them. First of all, they're ...

When we went to the U.S. last month we rode the train from Los Angeles to San Diego, and this ...

Although many Japanese will tell you they have no religion, when all is said and done Japan is a Buddhist ...

The ongoing crisis in Japan has caused a lot of deep thinking about the country in general by the Western ...

Since I knew I was coming to the U.S. for this brief trip, I pre-ordered one of the new Apple ...

The drama in Japan continues, two weeks after the worst earthquake in the country's history, and every day brings new ...

Japan's masukomi -- what the news media is called here, from "mass communications" -- loves attaching labels to budding social ...

Japan's online culture has really taken off over the past decade, and it's fun to dip into some of the ...

I caught an interesting commercial the other day, which showed a series of concerned people looking into the camera's point-of-view, ...

Japan can be a very stylish place, especially in the cities, and whenever I take a trip down to Tokyo ...

Today is an adventure for my son: his juken, or high school entrance exam, which he's prepared for all year. ...

As you probably know, I love Japan's culture of onsen, bathing in volcanic hot springs. But nothing good in life ...

Right now it's juken (test) season in Japan, when hundreds of thousands of students take the entrance exams they've spent ...

One of the more amazing stories of World War II is that of Tsutomu Yamaguchi, the man who survived not ...

Like many, I'm a big fan of bento, the Japanese tradition of convenient and delicious portable lunches in a box. ...