Tag: fashion

Japan, of course, is located in Asia -- though sometimes it seems the country would rather be part of Europe ...

I watch more than a little late-night Japanese TV, and I enjoy its light- hearted goofiness. The other night I ...

We've finished the first day at Anime Expo, and we're all incredibly tired after selling so many awesome products from ...

One interesting aspect of Japan is the many ways its language has changed since the 1868 Meiji Restoration, which abolished ...

I happened to see that popular actress Ayame Gouriki, famous for her energetic nature and boyish short-cut hair, was awarded ...

I once saw an interesting thread on Japan's ubiquitous BBS 2ch entitled, "Things Japanese people do abroad that mark them ...

One thing about Japanese women which amuses my wife no end is their pre-conceived notions about what it's like when ...

One of the greatest names in the history of anime and manga is Matsumoto Leiji, creator of classic space operas ...

Japan is a land of fast-moving fashion trends, and you never know what the next fad will be. One week ...

I write a lot about how the Japanese are innovative when it comes to advertising, coming up with fresh and ...

There's no place quite like Japan for that paradigm-shifting-without-a-clutch experience. When my daughter started junior high school, she went online ...

One thing I love about Japan are the incredibly delicious desserts here, from green tea ice cream to Japanese "pudding" ...

As I often write, Japanese are the most polite and considerate people in the world, an important thing when you've ...

One aspect of the Japanese language is its heavy use of foreign loan words, usually borrowed from English. Since the ...

What is the "perfect" girl? According to Japan, it seems to be someone who is half-Japanese and half-British (or French), ...

If you've watched more than an hour of Japanese television, you'll know that school uniforms are a big part of ...

Yesterday I took a day off from work and went down to Tokyo for an appointment I had. As the ...

It's fun to observe the way visual memes move from one anime series to the next, always evolving and changing ...

I saw an interesting thread on Japan's ubiquitous BBS 2ch entitled, "Things Japanese people do abroad that mark them as ...

One of the more interesting trends to come out of Japan has been the gyaru, or "gals," young women who ...

One nice thing about living in Japan is the rail culture here, so very different from the freeway- and automobile-based ...

Japan is the land of the "boom," and you never know what will become popular next. One year all the ...

It's funny how culture crisscrosses the globe, never stopping at such laughable things as national borders as it flows to ...

The Japanese make heavy use of foreign loan words, usually borrowed from English, but since Japanese grammar differs from other ...