My wife has decided to volunteer at my daughter's elementary school as an assistant in the English classes they have ...
I talked last time about how the dynamic of "standing out in a crowd" can work a little differently when ...
One way to learn about Japan is through its traditional calligraphy, which uses a writing brush called a fude (FOO-day) ...
Hanabi (花火), meaning "flower fire" or fireworks, are part of summer in Japan, and you can't watch three hours of ...
I knew it would happen: Heroes is starting to get popular in Japan. This morning I turned on the TV ...
Japan is a country that's definitely in touch with its seasons, and they celebrate each time of year with many ...
You never know where the next interesting "boom" will come from in Japan. Maybe it'll be a strange new fashion ...
There are naturally many large and small forms of culture shock a person experiences when they go go live in ...
The end of an era for this particular gaijin has come. In the past, foreigners were permitted to drive in ...
I've written about how Japan's society often seems to follow behind the U.S. in many areas, usually running about a ...
Hello and happy Friday the 13th, often considered to be a day of good luck in Japan, since many festivals ...
We're still here at Anime Expo in Long Beach, and it's been a real blast. Monday is the last day ...
First of all, we had a problem with checkout on the J-List and JBOX.com websites that caused orders to not ...
Like other developed nations, many of the products the Japanese use every day are manufactured in China, and recently the ...
The Japanese are fascinated with the enigma of New York City, and there are hundreds of books written about the ...
The Japanese are a very group-oriented people, and one of the worst things a person can be is nakama-hazure (nah-kah-mah ...
Hello again from J-List. Once again I've made the journey from California to Japan and am back home with the ...
The Star Wars Celebration IV convention continues, and we're having lots of fun. Highlights have included Carrie Fisher coming by ...
Japan is a country that's very focused on education, and I've always observed that parents seem to put more energy ...
Names in Japanese are quite different from what we're usually used to in the West. Right off the bat, the ...
Urban legends are funny things, sometimes leading millions of people to believe something that just isn't true. When Gerber started ...
Living in Japan means adapting to many things, not the least of which is modifying your native language. When I ...
One of the more interesting aspects of Japan is the top-down nature of its society, how it's ostensibly structured in ...
Japan is the land of the "boom," and you never know when some new thing is going to come out ...
