Tag: family

Japan is a Buddhist country, and this manifests itself in some interesting ways. Several national holidays are Buddhist for example, ...

Normally when I come to the U.S. the last thing I want to do is eat Japanese food, since there ...

When you learn a foreign language, you definitely need to develop a sense of humor. Like the other day when ...

The Japanese election was last Sunday, and as expected, the ruling Democratic Party of Japan lost ground, giving up a ...

Well, we're done with Anime Expo, and what a fun time it was. Thanks to everyone who came by to ...

While the Japan Language Proficiency Test is the most recognized test of Japanese, and likely the best for anyone studying ...

Sunday was my birthday, and while turning 42 certainly has its own nerdy charm -- although I still don't know ...

Let us all pause a moment and reflect on how awesome Egg McMuffins are. When I was six years old, ...

I'm enjoying my time in San Diego, doing various family-related things right now. The other day a couple of friends ...

The Japanese are good at coming up with innovative ways of committing information to memory. Like the man who memorized ...

My son and I are loving the new Evangelion 2.22 movie, which is a real joy to watch, especially in ...

One of my favorite foods is sushi, and when someone in our family has a birthday, we often send out ...

Ogenki desu ka? This is one of the first phrases a student of Japanese encounters, and it corresponds to the ...

Perhaps my favorite aspect of anime and manga is the way they allow fans to access various emotions, from boy-meets-moe ...

I write a lot about how Japanese names work, since they're quite different from names in Western languages. Japanese people ...

The other day I was having lunch with my family and my wife gave me a cup of "coffee jelly." ...

I've been watching a show called Ladies vs. Butlers, which is sort of like Kanokon meets Maria Holic without the ...

I've lived in Japan nearly two decades and have seen some things that really confused me over the years. Like ...

Once while my family was watching My Neighbor Totoro, the awesome animated film about a magical forest spirit that only ...

I was recently asked to write about the news media in Japan, and I'm happy to oblige. Like other countries, ...

Recently I got the urge to re-watch the classic 70s show Land of the Lost, about a family that gets ...

Yesterday was my son's birthday, and in our family that usually means going to our favorite Korean BBQ restaurant for ...

Last time I talked about safety in Japan, including the way elementary school children walk to school in an organized ...

When I arrived in Japan, one of the concepts I had to get used to was joshiki (pronounced joe-sh'ki), a ...