Tag: food

Akemashite omedeto from J-List! We had a nice New Year's Day in Japan, writing our family's nengajo (New Year's Cards) ...

As December draws to a close, Japan is getting ready for Oshogatsu (New Year's Day), by far the most important ...

Japan's capital city of Tokyo is a sprawling mass of concrete, asphalt and steel that holds 35 million people in ...

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

Tonight is J-List's bonenkai (boh-NEN-KAI), or Year End Party, a big tradition in any company in Japan. Literally meaning "Forget ...

With the economy in the doldrums in Japan, people here are buckling down as they wait for the recession to ...

Of all the aspects of Japan I had to get used to when I came here, the educational system was ...

If you went to the supermarket recently, you might have picked up some cereal and put it in your cart. ...

Each year the organization that publishes the Standardized Kanji Test announces the "kanji of the year," the single character that ...

Every year dictionary publisher U-CAN announces the most popular buzzwords for the past year, slang which appears suddenly and is ...

One of the things I like best about living in Japan is the food. From traditional types of Japanese cuisine ...

One of the things I like about the iPhone 3G I use in Japan is now it updates itself with ...

Everyone knows that rice is the staple food of the Japanese, and it really is -- we eat it 2-3 ...

I have the most interesting car: when I start it in the morning, it greets me with ohayo gozaimasu (good ...

Japan is experiencing a big increase in its birthrate...of dogs, that is. While Japan's rate of human births continues to ...

On Sunday we had ourselves an early (and partially Costco-enabled) Thanksgiving, since Thursday is rather a difficult day to take ...

When the Japanese think of Georgia, they naturally think of Georgia coffee, the brand of canned coffee made with the ...

It's not every day a gaijin living in rural Japan opens the newspaper to see an ad for Wendy's staring ...

Like many families in Japan, we live with my wife's parents in a niseitai jutaku, or "two household-home," meaning that ...

When a foreigner first comes to live in Japan, there are many small things they'll notice. Ceramic roof tiles on ...

sushi, sashimi, and udon or soba when you think of food in Japan, people here have an incredibly rich and ...

One of the minor challenges for a foreigner living in Japan is getting used to sitting on the floor a ...

You've been in Japan too long when you get a nihongo ga jozu and feel really insulted. It's an odd ...

One thing foreigners visiting Japan should be sure and try is "real" ramen. Thanks to its cheapness, virtually everyone in ...