Tag: fashion

One interesting aspect of the Japanese is how concerned they are with how they appear to foreigners, especially from the ...

I took a trip down to Tokyo yesterday for a meeting with a company about some dating-sim games. As usual, ...

McDonald's Japan is currently running a bizarre promotion using a caricature of an American named Mr. James, who hails from ...

Sometimes names in Japan work in ways that are puzzling to Westerners. At a recent concert celebrating the 10th year ...

Like all things, Japanese society is constantly moving in new directions, and it's interesting to see the terms that are ...

Besides promoting world peace through shared popular culture and Hello Kitty bento boxes, I consider it my mission to try ...

I've been fascinated with the women of Japan ever since I arrived here, and over the years I've managed to ...

Whenever I go to Tokyo, I start to pay more attention to my surroundings when the train hits Omiya, a ...

The most common word for "foreigner" in Japanese is gaijin, written with the characters for outside + person, although since ...

I wrote recently about how the Japanese often find new and inventive abbreviations for words using the English alphabet, such ...

I've written before about the Japanese affinity for attractive faces that are haafu, or half-Japanese and half-Western, and it seems ...

There's no place quite like Japan for that paradigm-shifting-without-a-clutch experience. My daughter starts Junior High School next month, and she's ...

Tokyo is a large and complex place. Many areas of the city are famous for different things, like Akihabara for ...

The English language in general and the U.S. in particular are a great source of inspiration to Japan, and America ...

During the Sports Festival, I engaged in a little hobby of mine: hunting for bizarre English T-shirts. For some reason, ...

Well, the Olympics are here, and Japan is buzzing with sports fever, hoping that their athletes will do well at ...

You never know what the next "boom" of the summer will be in Japan. One year it might be a ...

You've been in Japan too long when you pay over $70 for a Captain Santa T-shirt and realize a few ...

There's nothing more interesting than studying a foreign language, of learning the way its unique grammatical rules work so you ...

Recently we took our daughter to a resort hotel in Kusatsu, a hot springs town in the mountains with more ...

First, we apologize for an outage on the J-List and JBOX.com websites, which was caused by a bad router at ...

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

You never know where the next interesting "boom" will come from in Japan. Maybe it'll be a strange new fashion ...

Japan is, of course, the home of funny English. It's everywhere, like a bizarre Matrix of Strangeness that pervades the ...