Tag: family

I recently came across a blog post by an American who'd lived in Japan for several years, but who'd suddenly ...

Just about any aspect of Japan can provide an interesting cultural lesson, even names. In Japan, everyone has a family ...

As a general rule, the Japanese have a very laissez faire attitude when it comes religion, blending Shinto and Buddhism ...

Whenever we go to the U.S. for a visit, it seems we discover new differences between our two home countries, ...

Without a doubt, Japan is a country that loves it's seasons. At any time during casual conversation, there's a 23% ...

Well, we're back in Japan after the approximately 20-hour door-to-door journey from San Diego. We had a great time in ...

Of course one of the most enjoyable things to do this time of year is...Christmas shopping. I'm quite a kurisumasu ...

Manga are the famous Japanese comics that have come to define Japan around the world. Literally meaning "whimsical pictures," the ...

The other day I sat my family in front of the TV to watch Up, the fantastic film by Disney/Pixar, ...

All things considered, it's nice to be able to speak Japanese. You can talk to people in Japan who you ...

I caught a TV show the other day that dealt with the issue of Japan's falling population, focusing not on ...

On Sunday it was time for our family's Thanksgiving dinner. Yes, I know, whoever heard of an American having Thanksgiving ...

One of the more interesting aspects of living in Japan is seeing famous faces from back home starring in local ...

I've always thought my life would make a good basis for a 4-koma (4-panel) manga, perhaps called "Papa wa Gaikoujin" ...

I've written before about how Japan seems to be a very harmonious place, where people are more or less on ...

Coming to Japan meant adjusting to many new things, from vending machines that accept the equivalent of $100 bills then ...

I've often written about how, on the surface at least, Japan can appear to be a "man's paradise" where males ...

Japanese homes are different from homes in the West. For example, there's a low area by the front door called ...

This year is the 100th year of the birth of Osamu Dazai, one of the major Japanese writers of the ...

Autumn is starting to make its presence known in Japan, with beautiful hues of red and orange and yellow starting ...

I received a request to talk about my house in Japan by a Twitter reader, so I thought I'd oblige. ...

This is Matsumoto Casatle, the castle we went to see today. One of the oldest and most beautiful castles in ...

Japan is in the middle of Obon (pronounced "oh, bone!"), a four-day Buddhist holiday that's kind of like Thanksgiving in ...

When we were in Las Vegas we happened to see a family from South Korea playing in the pool, and ...