Tag: culture

My daughter has returned home to Japan after staying a month with me here in the States. During her time ...

If you were to plan a picnic, you might pack a basket containing things like sandwiches, potato salad or maybe ...

There are many ways of approaching the study of Japanese. You can follow the traditional approach, studying with Japanese textbooks ...

I'm grateful for many aspects of the modern world we live in. Like the high-speed Internet connection that enables me ...

One interesting aspect of the Japanese is how superstitious they can be, at least as seen from my contemporary American ...

Because I live in a smaller rural city in Japan, there are fewer foreigners around me, and it's not uncommon ...

Yesterday I took my wife out to my favorite Mexican restaurant in San Diego. While she scarfed down the refried ...

We're enjoying our time at the San Diego Comicon, which is a a fantastic celebration of worldwide popular nerd culture. ...

San Diego has a vibrant Asian community, and driving down the Convoy Street will introduce you to a wealth of ...

Leave it to Japan to turn something as simple as "yes" and "no" into something more complex than it needs ...

The other day I saw a post about the newest in wacky fruit goodness from Japan, a high quality yubari ...

Let us all pause a moment and reflect on how awesome Egg McMuffins are. When I was six years old, ...

Over the weekend I took a trip down to Tokyo for a business meeting and to enjoy some quality shochu ...

The other day my wife had a surprise for us: Mexican tacos, which were certainly more welcome than the local ...

I often write about what it's like to raise kids in Japan, since this subject may offer some insight into ...

It's funny the way culture reflects language and vice-versa. One phrase you'll hear sometimes in Japanese is tenka no~, which ...

I recently watched an anime called She, The Ultimate Weapon (aka Saikano: The Last Love Song on This Little Planet), ...

Increasingly otaku culture encompassing everything from anime to Miku Hatsune to cosplay is becoming Japan's mainstream culture, at least among ...

It's hanami season in Japan, a period of approximately ten days when the millions of cherry trees located in Japanese ...

J-List is a fun place where you can find everything from kanji T-shirts that say "Looking for a Japanese Girlfriend" ...

Japan has certainly had a unique history. Compared with most other nations, it got a late start, importing its writing ...

It's interesting how Japanese society divides itself into different tribes, or zoku, which always seem to come with interesting and ...

"You've been in Japan too long when NHK warnings about landslides, heavy rains, and other disasters make you feel reassured ...

First of all, many apologies for the off-and-on server problems we've been experiencing over the past couple of days. We're ...