Tag: family

It's fun to deconstruct random elements of anime, for example...dads! Fathers in anime come in many shapes and sizes, and ...

We've now hopped from Los Angeles to Las Vegas for some hardcore R&R and perhaps a little gambling. It's been ...

Should anime have a message? It's an interesting question which was recently taken up on Japan's 2ch BBS. If you're ...

Japan is entering Golden Week, a semi-accidental clustering of holidays that received its unique name from movie theatre operators trying ...

It's funny how words are perceived by people in different ways. My wife asked me how to say the word ...

Today marks one month since the terrible earthquake and tsunamis that caused so much devastation in Japan. It's been a ...

My family and I have safely made the hop back to Japan. Although we had fun in San Diego, zipping ...

It's been interesting being back in San Diego for this brief trip before we return to Japan on Sunday. Part ...

Although many Japanese will tell you they have no religion, when all is said and done Japan is a Buddhist ...

I was driving around town with my family and they noticed how many sushi restaurants there were in San Diego. ...

My family has now joined me here in San Diego, and we're enjoying our time here even as we worry ...

Japan's crisis continues, though things are slowly coming under control. As calm returns and companies work hard to normalize the ...

Japan's terrible national tragedy continues five days after the strongest earthquake ever recorded here. Cleanup is proceeding, but it's a ...

We interrupt this J-List update to bring you...a giant Earthquake! The 8.9 magnitude quake that hit around Sendai shook the ...

You never appreciate something as much as when it's gone, and as an American living in Japan I've learned to ...

The most common word for "foreigner" in Japanese is gaijin, a term that's used to describe Westerners who are obviously ...

When you live in another country for many years, you naturally pick up the values of the people around you. ...

I write a lot about wacky Japanese television because, well, it's so wacky. While I do my best to correct ...

In the Mazda MPV we use as a family car we've got a navi (er, GPS car navigation thing, whatever ...

Yesterday I experienced that Great Democratizer, the full body health checkup, called ningen dock or "human dock" in Japanese. (The ...

Things I like about winter in Japan: wearing my hanten kimono coat while enjoying a dinner of nabe with the ...

One thing I like about popular culture like anime or manga is the way is the way it can teach ...

Last time I discussed the words wabi and sabi, two poetic terms from Zen Buddhism which basically tell us to ...

Like most parents in Japan, I closely followed the interests of my kids as they were growing up. When my ...