Tag: culture

All languages make use of onomatopoeia, words that are derived from the way they sound, and Japanese is no exception. ...

I'm having a bit of a vacation after the hard work of the Phoenix Comicon, relaxing in Las Vegas with ...

It's funny how east mirrors west. Many people from Europe and the U.S. are quite taken with Japan, and would ...

Watching anime means opening yourself up to cultural aspects of Japan that are unfamiliar to most of us, such as ...

I've made the hop from Japan to San Diego in preparation for the summer anime conventions. As usual it's great ...

The name of Japan in its own language is 日本, pronounced either nihon or nippon, alternate readings of kanji characters ...

Names in Japanese are interesting, so I thought I'd write about how they work. Japanese names are generally written with ...

Over the weekend we went to our favorite Indian restaurant for curry, tandoori chicken and that heavenly naan bread that ...

One of the joys of being a long-term gaijin in Japan is eventually building a house here. Houses in Japan ...

Things I love about Japan: buying a hot can of coffee and drinking it on the cold train platform in ...

One of the themes I cover a lot is how there always seems to be a "right" way of doing ...

Language is always changing, evolving to fit the needs of the people who use it on a daily basis. One ...

Japan's "anime" industry, of course, is part of a complex network of companies in related but separate industries, all working ...

There are many routes to discover Japan, for example through the country's history or martial arts, through its pop culture, ...

I'm a fan of otaku culture, both inside Japan and around the world, because it gives anyone who's a fan ...

Japan is an exotic place, a land of endless wonders for those of us from the West. While some may ...

Google has radically changed the way we get information, and if you have a question about something -- say, about ...

One of the "secrets" to successfully learning a foreign language like Japanese is to develop a meaningful emotional connection to ...

There are certain eternal questions about Japan. Like, why do the Japanese insist the color green (for example a traffic ...

I'm often asked how Japanese view the foreigners that live in their midst, disrupting the precious harmony the country is ...

Remember, we've released the Standard Edition of Steins;Gate, the popular visual novel of science, time travel and otaku culture, so ...

Learning a new language means getting used to new concepts, like the way nouns have gender in most European languages, ...

I've been a lifelong fan of science-fiction stories, especially ones involving time travel and related themes like time dilation. Looking ...

Today is the release of the Standard Edition of Steins;Gate, the popular visual novel of science, time travel and otaku ...