Tag: culture

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 ...

Hello again from Japan, where going to Kentucky means eating chicken and everyone thinks IT stands for "Internet technology." When ...

Hello and TGIF from your friends in Japan! One thing that's often a shock to outgoing, cheerful Westerners is the ...

Hello from Japan, where the Mazda Miyata is known as the Mazda Roadster, but through unlucky phonetic accident, 99% of ...

Hello again from all your friends in Japan! I've lived in Japan for twelve years now, and I've had some ...

My Japan Experience: Interesting Quotes from Japan Hi, my name is Peter, and I've lived in Japan for many years, ...

My Otaku Reconsideration Portrait of an Otaky #1187by Peter R. PayneNote: the following is an article I wrote way back ...

You've been in Japan Too Long when... Updated January, 2001 The following were collected from various Usenet groups, most likely ...

Hello again from Japan, the home of tomato flavored pretzels! Part of Peter's Unified Theory of Japan is that the ...

Hello from Japan, where you can still find "skin color" crayons sold in stores. It's quite well known that in ...

Hello from all of us at J-List. We've been busy bees all day and have a great update of products ...

Hello again from all your friends in Japan! With tensions in Iraq increasing every day, Japanese are nervous about what ...

Hello, where in children's games like Hide and Seek or Tag, the person who is "it" is referred to as ...

Hello again from your friends in Japan!My wife is a member of the Silver Age generation of Japanese animation, having ...

Hello from Japan, where the word for violence is "rambo." Japan is a long country shaped like a reversed letter ...

Hello from Japan, the home of yogurt flavored butterscotch candies -- yum. Japan has a new "muscle idol" these days: ...

Greetings from Japan, where people bow while talking on the phone (I do it too...). There are a lot of ...

Greetings from J-List! Want to know a Japanese joke? In Japanese, the word for Prime Minister is "sohri," which sounds ...

Hello again from all your friends in Japan! Happy faces in email are now a part of Internet culture. The ...

Hello again from Japan, where "UFO" and "VIP" are pronounced as words, not spelled out (e.g." you-foh" and "vipp"). All ...

Hello and Happy Halloween from your friends at J-List! It's Halloween, today, a day for dressing up in scary costumes. ...