Anime has really gotten big in the U.S. in recent years, changing the face of popular culture as people are ...
I've made the long hop from Japan to New York, and I'm now enjoying the 19 degree (with wind chill) ...
Maybe my post on Wednesday about the Japanese not seeming to care about government waste was read by someone important. ...
If you were to plan a picnic, you might pack a basket containing things like sandwiches, potato salad or maybe ...
Japan is famous for its cooperative group culture, and you can see this in many places, from clubs in schools ...
I'm often asked how I can come with so many observations about Japan, to which I usually respond that it's ...
One question I've been asked by my ESL students in Japan is, just where is "standard" American English located geographically? ...
Recently we took our daughter to a resort hotel in Kusatsu, a hot springs town in the mountains with more ...
Happy Halloween from J-List. Halloween is one of those "American" holidays (although originally Irish and Scottish) that has a way ...
Well, what everyone feared has come to pass: the chain of English schools called NOVA has gone, well, nova, officially ...
You probably know that the Japanese take their shoes off when they enter a house. Shoes are considered to be ...
Sometimes it's fun to notice the little differences between Japan and the U.S., like the way packaging of products is ...
Living in a foreign country means more than just learning that country's language. It also means subtly taking the local ...
The other day my wife asked me what a "window-breaker" was. I assumed she was asking about a type of ...
Today is a holiday in Japan: Keiro no Hi, or Respect for the Aged Day. Celebrated nationally since 1966 -- ...
The rush is on to choose a successor to Prime Minister Abe after his sudden resignation on Wednesday. I saw ...
I knew it would happen: Heroes is starting to get popular in Japan. This morning I turned on the TV ...
I took the train into Tokyo on Sunday to meet a friend in Akihabara, the area of Tokyo famous as ...
There are naturally many large and small forms of culture shock a person experiences when they go go live in ...
The end of an era for this particular gaijin has come. In the past, foreigners were permitted to drive in ...
I've written about how Japan's society often seems to follow behind the U.S. in many areas, usually running about a ...
One observation I've made about Japan in the 15+ years I've spent there is, they pay a little more attention ...
It's always fun being back in the U.S., because I get to experience that rarest of sensations, reverse culture shock, ...
