Tag: food

Hello again from your friends in Japan! Well, darn it all. When we fixed the site after the downtime on ...

Hello again from Japan, where a movie release is called "road show" for reasons that are completely unfathomable to me. ...

Hello from Japan, where if you cut your fingernails at night, you won't be able to be with your parents ...

Hello again from your friends in Japan! Halloween has come early to J-List. At various times during the year, my ...

Hello again from your friends in Japan and, er, Europe! We've enjoyed our two days in Frankfurt, short though they ...

Hello again from your friends at J-List! It's time for us to say arrivederci to Roma and hello to Germany, ...

Hello again from all of us at J-List! I took an hour off work today to attend my daughter's "sankanbi," ...

Hello and "Akemashite Omedetou" from all of us at J-List! The New Year is here, and J-List is happy to ...

Hello again from Japan, the only country in the world that would make vegetable yogurt (it was billed as a ...

Hello from Japan, where natto (fermented soybeans) mixed with hot mustard and soy sauce is a popular breakfast. I'm feeling ...

Hello from your friendly neighborhood gaijin in Japan! First of all, congratulations to Yasu and his wife on the birth ...

Greetings from Japan, where a turn signal on a car is known as a "winker." We woke up to a ...

Hello and TGIF from Japan, where the Adam's Apple (the little bulb in your throat) is known as "nodo-chinko" which ...

Hello again from your friends in Japan at J-List! The Japanese are very big on their four seasons, and have ...

Hello again from Japan, where the American shampoo Pert is marketed under the product name Rejoy. It's customary for various ...

Hello and happy Thanksgiving to everyone! Thanksgiving is a very American holiday, and when you live in another country as ...

Hello and TGIF from Japan, where it's believe that if you cut your fingernails at night, you won't be able ...

Greeting from all your friends in Japan! All modern languages contain confusing and archaic elements of past languages, English not ...

Hello again from Japan! Well, the Autumn Sumo tournament is over, and Hawaiian wrestler Musashimaru has won. He defeated the ...

Hello again from Japan, where the 7-to-9 p.m. time slot on television is known as "golden time." Despite receiving six ...

Hello again from all of us in Japan! Sometimes gaijin get all the luck. While I was in college, my ...

Greetings from all of us at J-List! With the Japanese recession continuing for so long, it's become quite common to ...

Hello again from your good friends in Japan! Japan has many nice customs, and one of my favorites are the ...

Hello and TGIF from your friends in Japan! August is drawing to a close, and that means that summer vacation ...