Tag: culture

The other day, my daughter came out of her room, and I did a double-take. She was wearing one of ...

One thing I like about popular culture like anime or manga is the way is the way it can teach ...

Japan is a culture obsessed with benkyo (studying) as a tool for creating a fair, merit-based society that encourages had ...

Doujinshi are the fan-created comic-books which have become a huge engine of sub-culture here in Japan. The word is an ...

It's been another unbelievable roller-coaster of a year for all of us a J-List, a time of learning new things ...

Japan is a very different country from the United States, with its own unique culture and traditions, and one thing ...

Although rice is the staple food of Japan, eaten with almost every meal, the Japanese are no slouches when it ...

Without a doubt, one of the more interesting aspects of anime is the way it uses strong emotions to heighten ...

I write a lot about the different memes that come along in Japan, and how they interact with the Internet ...

The 49th "Taiga Drama" -- the big budget jidai geki period drama put on by Japan's public broadcasting network NHK ...

One thing you have to understand about the Japanese is, they like lists, such as the Three Beautiful Sights of ...

One interesting area of life in Japan is weddings, and Japanese really take the subject of getting married seriously. One ...

I like to pick up on random bits of Japanese language and see what they can teach us, and one ...

For years, J-List has been involved in translating and promoting Japanese "dating-sim games," a genre of interactive PC game in ...

If you visit the Lumine Man department store in Shibuya you'll find something pretty cool: a huge display of Evangelion ...

The word otaku has come to represent the culture both in Japan and around the world of embracing awesomely nerdy ...

My son continues his juken studies, preparing for the difficult high school entrance exams he'll be taking early next year. ...

One thing about learning a foreign language like Japanese: words don't always match up neatly, and it's not uncommon to ...

Over the weekend I went to my daughter's bunka-sai or school culture festival. Anyone who's watched more than a few ...

One of the more popular anime series from the 1980s was the Lovely Angels, I mean Dirty Pair, the story ...

Amazingly, I am actually headed back to Japan after three months spent in San Diego doing various important family and ...

It's interesting being back in the U.S., because I get to experience that rarest of sensations, reverse culture shock, when ...

It's funny how different inputs -- such as a simple song -- can push different emotional buttons depending on what ...

I saw in a news article that the word hikikomori (pronounced "hee-kee koh-moh-ree") had officially found its way into the ...