Tag: family

Hello from the world's #1 producer of vending machines, Japan. We now live next to the mayor! Over the last ...

Hello again on this fine Saturday morning in Japan! Japanese marrying foreigners is at an all-time high, up nearly double ...

Hello again from your friend in Japan! Pardon my typing tonight, I was up til 4 am watching the Macworld ...

Hello and TGIF from Japan! With all that's different between Japan and the West, you can bet that there are ...

Hello, and "akemashite omedeto gozaimasu" (lit. "congratulations on opening the new year") from your friends in Japan at J-List. 2001 ...

The warmest Merry Christmas and holiday wishes from all of us at J-List! Christmas in Japan is very different from ...

Happy Wednesday, from Japan, where a cup of "American" means a weak cup of coffee. Now that the 1990's are ...

Happy Day-After-Thanksgiving from J-List! We had a wonderful Thanksgiving here in San Diego, and ate ourselves sick on turkey, cranberry ...

Greetings again from Japan! The idea of a man taking his wife's last name after marriage would be pretty rare ...

Hello again from Japan, your personal friend in Japan! The Japanese have some interesting superstitions about names, and generally labor ...

Hello again, on this fine Saturday afternoon (Japan time). I'm putting the finishing touches on today's update, and then I'm ...

Hello again from Japan. While traveling back from the States, I read an interesting article in Forbes listing the current ...

Hello from Japan. Chiharu and I are back in the Land of the Rising Sun after 24 hours or so ...

Hello and TGIF from Japan. We're sixteen hours ahead of California, so we get to start our weekend a little ...

Hello again from Japan, where the Three Little Pigs' chant "not by the hair of my chinny-chin-chin" has a different ...

Hello from Japan, where even the feminine products have printed Hello Kitty on them. One thing I'm often impressed with ...

Hello to all from Japan on this cool, quiet evening. Tragedy has struck J-List again, with the sudden death of ...

Hello again from Japan! The Japanese love seasons, and Autumn is here in full force. Throughout the country, the trees ...

Hello, and belated Merry Christmas from J-List. We hope you all had a pleasant, quiet day with family and friends ...

Hello again. The famous December "Kara-kaze" is blowing outside my window as I type this. I hope I won't get ...

Greetings from Japan, where "that's true" means "no" and people bow while talking on the phone (I do it too...). ...

Happy Thanksgiving from J-List, if you're in the States. Thanksgiving is a nice day for Americans, a quiet time to ...

Hello again from Japan. Sorry for the pictures on the "about us" page all being dead -- the problem is ...

It's a dark, quiet night in Japan as we finish up tonight's update. If you are in the States, you ...