The Year of Evangelion, and all about silence in Japanese.
One of the fun things about science-fiction stories involving the future is comparing the predictions they make about events that ...
One of the fun things about science-fiction stories involving the future is comparing the predictions they make about events that ...
Japan is a country that faces many challenges. Strong global competition from China and South Korea. The lowest rate of ...
baka), and becoming an adult in Japan. When you come to live in Japan, you get used to certain core ...
Over the weekend I decided to visit Kiryu, a pleasant city near J-List that's known as "Little Kyoto" because of ...
One of the benefits of being an English speaker learning Japanese is the high number of foreign loan words in ...
Greetings from J-List! Tomorrow is 3.14, a day to celebrate the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, also ...
Last Friday several members of the J-List staff and I drove down to Tokyo Big Sight, the sprawling convention center ...
yuri, plus Japan's love of fax machines. I started another anime series last night called Koufuku Graffiti (Gourmet Girl Graffiti ...
I started watching a new "harem" anime series called Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata, or Saekano: How to Raise a Boring ...
Hello from Kota Kinabalu, a city in Western Borneo, Malaysia, where I've brought my family for some relaxing fun, just ...
Anime can be based on many things: popular manga series (Maken-ki!, Cardcaptor Sakura), light novels (Oreimo, Sword Art Online), visual ...
Another anime series that caught my eye this season was Grisaia no Kajitsu, a harem-style show about a mysterious main ...
Ever since the rise of "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" 14 years ago, people have been used to ...
In my city there are these metal signs posted at random places with the collected wisdom of our local PTA ...
Unlike countries like Saudi Arabia, Canada or the United States, Japan has almost nothing in the way of natural resources, ...
One of my favorite things about Japan are onsen hot springs, the wonderful sulfur baths that are great for relaxing ...
One interesting subject when thinking about Japan is the role of 国際結婚 kokusai kekkon, or international marriage, on society here. ...
Japan's love of cuteness has become famous all around the world, to the point that the word 可愛い kawaii can ...
One fun aspect of living in Japan is watching NHK, Japan's national public broadcasting network, the channel to turn to ...
moe culture, and connecting with anime through food. Last weekend was Comic Market, aka Comiket , the huge doujinshi convention ...
I enjoy J-List's Twitter feed and Facebook page because they allow me to throw out random pictures and observations about ...
Amazingly it's time for a new season of anime, which is bad news for me as I'm behind on virtually ...
I'm often asked what Japanese fans think of the global explosion in the popularity of anime, manga and Japanese games. ...
Hello from Anime Expo 2014, the premier anime convention in the U.S.! We're all ready to have a great time ...