Greetings from J-List April 14, 2003
Hello again from Japan, where going to Kentucky means eating chicken and everyone thinks IT stands for "Internet technology." When ...
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Greetings from J-List April 11, 2003
Hello and TGIF from your friends in Japan! One thing that's often a shock to outgoing, cheerful Westerners is the ...
Greetings from J-List April 4, 2003
Hello from Japan, where the Mazda Miyata is known as the Mazda Roadster, but through unlucky phonetic accident, 99% of ...
Greetings from J-List March 28, 2003
Hello again from all your friends in Japan! I've lived in Japan for twelve years now, and I've had some ...
Funny Engrish quotes from my Japanese students
My Japan Experience: Interesting Quotes from Japan Hi, my name is Peter, and I've lived in Japan for many years, ...
My Otaku Reconsideration
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… (page 1 of 4)
You've been in Japan Too Long when... Updated January, 2001 The following were collected from various Usenet groups, most likely ...
Greetings from J-List March 26, 2003
Hello again from Japan, the home of tomato flavored pretzels! Part of Peter's Unified Theory of Japan is that the ...
Greetings from J-List March 24, 2003
Hello from Japan, where you can still find "skin color" crayons sold in stores. It's quite well known that in ...
Greetings from J-List March 21, 2003
Hello from all of us at J-List. We've been busy bees all day and have a great update of products ...
Greetings from J-List March 19, 2003
Hello again from all your friends in Japan! With tensions in Iraq increasing every day, Japanese are nervous about what ...
Greetings from J-List March 14, 2003
Hello, where in children's games like Hide and Seek or Tag, the person who is "it" is referred to as ...
Greetings from J-List March 10, 2003
Hello again from your friends in Japan!My wife is a member of the Silver Age generation of Japanese animation, having ...
Greetings from J-List March 7, 2003
Hello from Japan, where the word for violence is "rambo." Japan is a long country shaped like a reversed letter ...
Greetings from J-List March 5, 2003
Hello from Japan, the home of yogurt flavored butterscotch candies -- yum. Japan has a new "muscle idol" these days: ...
Greetings from J-List March 3, 2003
Greetings from Japan, where people bow while talking on the phone (I do it too...). There are a lot of ...
Greetings from J-List February 10, 2003
Greetings from J-List! Want to know a Japanese joke? In Japanese, the word for Prime Minister is "sohri," which sounds ...
Greetings from J-List February 5, 2003
Hello again from all your friends in Japan! Happy faces in email are now a part of Internet culture. The ...
Greetings from J-List February 3, 2003
Hello again from Japan, where "UFO" and "VIP" are pronounced as words, not spelled out (e.g." you-foh" and "vipp"). All ...
Greetings from J-List October 31, 2003
Hello and Happy Halloween from your friends at J-List! It's Halloween, today, a day for dressing up in scary costumes. ...
Greetings from J-List January 27, 2003
Hello again from Japan, the home of strawberry and butter sandwiches! There are some words that the Japanese are doomed ...
Greetings from J-List January 22, 2003
Hello again from your friends in Japan! Well, darn it all. When we fixed the site after the downtime on ...
Greetings from J-List January 20, 2003
Hello from Japan where kissing up to a superior is known as "grinding up the sesame seeds" (goma suri). First ...
Greetings from J-List January 17, 2003
Hello again from Japan, where a movie release is called "road show" for reasons that are completely unfathomable to me. ...
