Tag: family

One of the more important areas of life in Japan is gift-giving, and there are many traditions of giving presents, ...

Is Japanese hard to pronounce? If English (or Portuguese, or Italian) is your native language, you might find that it's ...

Last night I went with Mrs. J-List to a nice restaurant over in Maebashi to celebrate my birthday. The restaurant ...

When studying a new language, one of the first things we want to do is learn the "naughty" words, which ...

Greetings from J-List. We had a blast at the Phoenix Comicon, and I'm safely back in San Diego. Next stop ...

Hello again from San Diego. We're about top pile into the J-List truck and start our drive to Phoenix, Arizona, ...

There are many reasons to like Japan. Extremely good service at every restaurant you visit, complete with a steaming hot ...

If there's one thing the Japanese like doing, it's commemorating special events on their calendars. Like the way February 9 ...

One fun anime I've been watching this season is Bakuon!!, a slice-of-life show about high school girls who form a ...

One adorable anime I've been watching this season is 三者三葉 Sansha San'yo, literally meaning "three persons, three leaves" though a ...

A warning against bank wire fraud by Softbank's famous dog Otousan, and the rise of inflation in Japan? Hello again ...

One of the best things about Japan is its volcanic hot springs, though since nothing in life is free, these ...

One anime I'm a fan of is Kin'iro Mosaic, a slice-of-life moe show about Shinobu, a Japanese girl in love ...

Over the weekend I went to a nearby shopping mall to make some purchases and take in the new Star ...

Today I thought I'd talk about Japan's economy, and some recent trends. Japan is the third largest economy in the ...

One of the themes of Japan is that relationships are "vertical," with differences in the roles played by people of ...

The films of Miyazaki Hayao are universally loved around the world, and in Japan virtually everyone grows up watching his ...

I’ve been a long-time student of Internet memes, and I enjoy posting them to J-List’s Twitter, Facebook and Instagram pages ...

Happy New Year and akemashite omedetou gozaimasu from your friends in Japan! We hope that 2016 is filled with many ...

There are several areas of anime and Japan-related fandom I enjoy a lot. First is that it's a "big tent" ...

I've always been a huge fan of Christmas, loving everything about it: the music, the annual re-watching of the Charlie ...

Anime characters are generally organized into basic archetypes, and whenever a new character is introduced, fans are able to categorize ...

I’m back in (freezing cold) Japan after spending a pleasant week doing Australia stuff including hanging out with local wildlife, ...

Some great news about the all-new J-List website: our English-translated visual novels and eroge are finally restored and ready for ...