Tag: family

There was a bizarre Japanese TV show that was on a few years back called OH! Mikey, in which an ...

Wherever you're from in the world. there's a good chance that your blood contains contributions from different national groups -- ...

Japan is a small country, which has to fit about half the population of the U.S. into an area just ...

Bento is the famous boxed lunch consumed millions of times daily across Japan, and fast becoming a sensation all over ...

My family is going through our annual "what are we going to do about summer?" decision-making process, trying to make ...

The subject of religion in Japan is a complex one. The two main religious traditions here are Buddhism, which was ...

Is it possible for a person to forget their native language? You wouldn't think so, but during my years of ...

Over the weekend I took my son up to the mountains for some quality onsen (volcanic hot springs) bathing, one ...

The word otaku is a formal term meaning "you" or "your family" which acquired its alternate meaning of "obsessed fanboy" ...

Last time I talked about words in English that happen to have meaning in Japanese, too. We keep coming up ...

Do you know the story of the "homeless junior high school student"? When Hiroshi Tamura was was just ten, his ...

I'll tell you about the scariest thing to happen to be since coming to Japan. I'm a big fan of ...

Spring vacation is finally here, and all through Japan children are getting ready to enjoy a well deserved two week ...

The history of Buddhism in Japan is long, going back to the very beginning of the country's historical age, since ...

Hayao Miyazaki is the animator and director that's brought so many wonderful films to the world, from Totoro to Kiki's ...

One of the joys of being a long-term gaijin in Japan is eventually building a house here. Houses in Japan ...

Living in Japan has certainly made me a more considerate person, and I generally thinks of others before acting on ...

Part of Peter's Unified Theory of Japan is that America is a country of idealists while Japanese are generally pragmatists. ...

You probably don't think about Douglass MacArthur very much, but to the Japanese, he's quite a figure. As Supreme Commander ...

One concept you get used to when living in Japan is the ubiquitity of certain famous companies in many different ...

Although Japan is famous for its extensive rail network, allowing people living in large cities like Tokyo to get by ...

Do the Japanese say "I love you"? It's an interesting question that touches on cultural issues as well as linguistic. ...

Over the weekend I took my son out for a bowl of gyudon, steamed beef over rice, the most popular ...

When I was growing up, I remember thinking that they had arranged marriages in Japan, probably something I got from ...