Tag: Disney

There are certain jobs in Japan that are naturally better filled by foreigners, such as employees in certain ethnic restaurants, ...

I've written before about how people who are bilingual actually develop separate personalities for each language, and it's interesting to ...

The other day I sat my family in front of the TV to watch Up, the fantastic film by Disney/Pixar, ...

The other day I got an odd hankering to watch one of my favorite Hayao Miyazaki films, Kiki's Delivery Service, ...

Over the weekend I went up to Karuizawa, the charming town in the mountains of Nagano Prefecture that serves as ...

On Sunday we had ourselves an early (and partially Costco-enabled) Thanksgiving, since Thursday is rather a difficult day to take ...

Although anime has become a part of our world culture, watched by fans from all over the globe, the word ...

Every summer, we arrange to have our kids spend some time in the U.S. to help them learn English and ...

Last time I mentioned the "second childhood" I'd enjoyed as a student of Japanese. It's true -- learning a foreign ...

Urban legends are funny things, sometimes leading millions of people to believe something that just isn't true. When Gerber started ...

The word banzai is one of the most well-known Japanese phrases in the West, up there with geisha, samurai, ninja ...

I'll never forget the moment. In my first year of SDSU, my family got a Japanese homestay student who stayed ...

Like Tokyo Disneyland, the New Tokyo International Airport is not located in Tokyo, being situated in Narita City, Chiba Prefecture, ...

Japan is a unique place, and the economic forces that cause this kind of business or that to spring up ...

Hello again from Japan, where the Disney film Lady and the Tramp is known as Wanwan Monogatari or "The Tale ...

Hello all. All is going well here in Japan, although it's on the cold side. I finally have a good ...

Hello all. It sure is nice to be back home, even if Japan is a bitterly cold place, with wind ...

We had fun at Tokyo Disneyland. It was threatening to rain the whole time, but it didn't, so we knew ...

Hello from Japan, where a cleft chin is known as "ketsu-ago" (KEH-tsoo AH-go), literally meaning "butt-chin."Japan is the home of ...

"You've been in Japan too long when you appear for your first skiing lesson with brand new Rossignol high performance ...

Hello again from all of your friends in Japan!It's typhoon time in Japan, as typhoon no. 6 meanders its way ...

Hello again from all your friends in Japan!Japan is currently full of anxiety over the future of the national pension ...

Hello from all your friends at J-List!My wife and I were invited to a party put on by the local ...

Hello again from Japan, home of cars with names like Crown Super Saloon. Even a simple word like friend (in ...