Tag: family

Happy New Year to everyone, and best wishes for a safe and peaceful 2011 from your friends in Japan at ...

We hope everyone had a nice Christmas, with many wonderful presents and warm memories with friends and family. Now that ...

Christmas is upon us, and soon the children will be nestled all snug in their beds, while visions of sugar-plums ...

Names in Japanese are quite different from what we're used to in the West. Right off the bat, the family ...

My son is in hardcore study mode right now as he prepares for his important high school entrance exam in ...

Well, December is here, and everyone is very busy. The old Japanese name for December is Shiwasu, which today is ...

There are some interesting things to be found on Japanese TV, like a show in which a comedian goes into ...

One thing you have to understand about the Japanese is, they like lists, such as the Three Beautiful Sights of ...

A lot of people talk about increasing the population of Japan, but J-List is doing something about it. The newest ...

When foreigners visit Japan, they naturally focus on certain areas that stand out to them as unique, like maid cafes ...

Rushing this update out a bit today, since the J-List crew is going out to an izakaya for the official ...

On the weekends I like to go on trips with my family, most often to an onsen (volcanic hot springs) ...

Like many Japanese families, my wife's parents live with us in one big house, occupying the lower floor while we ...

The word otaku has come to represent the culture both in Japan and around the world of embracing awesomely nerdy ...

Over the weekend my family and I went down to Yokohama to check out a high school we might be ...

A few days ago my Japanese wife's uncle finally succumbed to his illness and passed away at the age of ...

I'm still getting caught up on all the anime series I wasn't able to watch while in the U.S. My ...

Over the weekend I had the sad job of paying a final visit to my wife's uncle Kumakichi, who's in ...

Amazingly, I am actually headed back to Japan after three months spent in San Diego doing various important family and ...

Japan's Case of the Mysteriously Vanishing Elderly continues, and now it seems there are an amazing 234,354 centenarians listed as ...

Whether you're talking about Singapore or South Africa, Jamaica or Japan, every country is going to adapt the English language ...

One of my Twitter followers asked me if I had any recommendations for his upcoming trip to Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost ...

Hello again from Japan, where the zipper in your pants is known as the "window of society" (shakai no mado), ...

Because I live in a smaller rural city in Japan, there are fewer foreigners around me, and it's not uncommon ...