Tag: culture

Hello and TGIF from all your friends at J-List! Hair loss is big business in Japan, and many companies provide ...

Hello again from all of us in Japan! The second anniversary of the September 11 tragedy was marked in Japan ...

Hello again from Japan, where the municipal employment office is called Hello Work. As in most countries in the world, ...

Hello and TGIF from Japan! Although you may think of certain foods as sushi, sashimi, tempura and sukiyaki as popular ...

Hello again from Japan, where it's considered good manners to turn your car's headlights off at stoplights (to avoid blinding ...

Hello again from your friends at J-List! It's mid-august in Japan, and to millions of Japanese sports fans that means ...

Hello and TGIF from all your friends in Japan! First, we had a slight problem with the server that hosts ...

Hello again from a very hot and humid Japan. The mercury is topping 38 degrees (that's a cool 100 Fahrenheit ...

Hello again from a very hot and humid Japan. The mercury is topping 38 degrees (that's a cool 100 Fahrenheit ...

Hello and TGIF from all of us in Japan! It's Friday in Japan, and I'm taking a rare day off ...

Hello again from Japan, where a car's horn is called "klaxon," a blinker is a "winker" and lipstick is known ...

Hello again from Japan, where you know you've been here too long if you can squeeze all the juice from ...

Hello again from Japan, where Velcro is known as Magic Tape. International Girl Scouts are active in Japan, as are ...

Hello again from Japan, where apartments have funny names like "Apartment Cream Soda." One reason I love living in Japan ...

Hello again from Japan, home of cars with odd names, like the Daihatsu Naked. Sanrio's pantheon of cute characters are ...

Hello again from all of us in Japan! One of the engines that drives Japanese society and makes Japanese people ...

Hello again from all of us in Japan! If you're going to travel to Japan, you'd better bring your suitscase, ...

Hello again from your friends in Japan, where the phrase "Not by the hair of my Chinny Chin Chin" means ...

Hello again from Japan! This year is the 400th anniversary of the establishment of Edo (Tokyo) as the capital of ...

First of all, we had some server problems for the past days, which made the product images fail to appear ...

Hello again from all your friends in Japan! The Japanese do love their alcohol, and in generally consume a large ...

Hello from Japan, where the restaurant chain Coco's bills itself as "The California Restaurant." There's a famous face game that ...

Hi again from Japan, where you bow to drivers when they give you the right of way (and I do ...

Greetings from Japan, where it's not polite to stick your chopsticks straight up in your rice (only dead people do ...