Tag: family

Over the weekend my family and I attended the Christmas Candlelight Service at my daughter's school, a mission-kei (kei meaning ...

Last year I had a bit of a family reunion in San Diego, and I got to see several family ...

There's no doubt about it: living in a foreign country for many years will change a person, something my father ...

Want to know how to fluster a Japanese person? Ask them to pronounce difficult English words, such as "jewelry," which ...

My son is quite a little scientist, reading books on physics and atomic theory for relaxation and occasionally wearing his ...

One of the best things about raising kids in Japan is shichi-go-san (literally "7, 5, 3"), a special time when ...

One of the best things about winter in Japan is sitting with your legs in the kotatsu, a low table ...

A couple of updates ago I used the word "filial piety" (oya koko, pronounced oh-yah koh-koh) when discussing the signs ...

It's funny how different smells and tastes can bring out different memories. One of the most pleasant related to summer ...

If you met a Japanese person whose's name was Honda or Kawasaki or Suzuki, you might smirk a little to ...

Expats like me have a lot of fun coming to Japan and blogging about what we see here, but we're ...

Anime has certainly changed a lot since 1979, when I encountered Star Blazers/Space Battleship Yamato, the first animated series from ...

When anime and manga creators go to make a new character, they have a lot of basic personality types to ...

Talking with people from other cultures often requires a "sense" for words that's quite unrelated to actual skill with a ...

I often write about the "meticulous Japanese" and their amazing ability to do the same thing in and out for ...

The other day I caught a CNN blog post about the term otaku, and whether it was a positive or ...

I'd like to say thanks to the nation of Australia for taking good care of my daughter. She spent two ...

There was a huge crowd of people in Narita as my son and I passed through the airport, and I ...

I'm up here in Big Bear, about 2-3 hours from the Los Angeles and San Diego areas. It's very similar ...

Bento are the famous boxed lunch consumed millions of times daily across Japan, and they've become a sensation all over ...

We're having a great time here at Anime Expo in Los Angeles, meeting fans and customers and selling lots of ...

Random nihongo lesson! There's a category of four-syllable (four kana) word used here that are so pregnant with meaning they ...

The Japanese have some unique ways of looking at the world, and as an "outsider" (which is what the word ...

Yesterday was Father's Day, and my family and I went out to have one of our favorite meals, yakiniku, or ...