Tag: food

Greetings from Japan, where it really is more fun to stand in the "Japanese only" line at Narita Airport immigration... ...

Hello again from Japan, where a condom is also called a "skin." Have you ever wondered what all the suffixes ...

Hello again on this fine Saturday morning in Japan! Japanese marrying foreigners is at an all-time high, up nearly double ...

Greetings from Japan, where people inexplicably write last names in CAPITAL LETTERS. In Japan, a meeting of friend for drinks ...

Hello, and Happy Friday from Japan, from your expat friends at J-List! American companies must always strive to bring unique ...

Hello again to all J-Listas from a very cold Japan! We got a special present in Japan this morning: a ...

Hello and TGIF from Japan! With all that's different between Japan and the West, you can bet that there are ...

Hello again from the land of the Rising Gundam! Almost all Japanese with a high school education study English for ...

Hello again from Japan, on this, the last Wednesday of the millennium. It sounds silly, but if you think about ...

Greetings from Japan, a country where, in the words of a wise friend of mine, You know no one is ...

Hello from J-List, now officially banned in all Santa Cruz city facilities and Saudi Arabia! One interesting aspect of the ...

Hello again from Japan, the country where a car's turn signal is known as a "winker." There are many things ...

Happy Wednesday, from Japan, where a cup of "American" means a weak cup of coffee. Now that the 1990's are ...

Greetings from J-list, the country that invented curtains for cars. Every languages has its interesting idioms, which are fun and ...

Happy Friday from Japan, where soy sauce really does taste better on eggs. One of the realities of raising children ...

Hello again from Japan, the original home of the salad pretzel. 2000 is shaping up as the "year of the ...

Man, Apple's Airport is really great. Today's update is being brought you from my living room, via my Powerbook and ...

Greetings from Japan, where it's not polite to stick your chopsticks straight up in your rice. It sure is hot ...

Hello again from J-List! It's summer, and at MOS Burger, the popular alternative to McDonald's here in Japan (MOS stands ...

Hello again from Japan. While traveling back from the States, I read an interesting article in Forbes listing the current ...

Well, summer is here, minus the tail end of Japan's rainy season, which should be over by the middle of ...

Greetings from Japan, home of the tomato flavored pretzel... Japan's many bizarre vending machines are world famous. There are vending ...

Greetings from Japan, home of the tomato flavored pretzel. Japan's many bizarre vending machines are world famous. There are vending ...

Happy Wednesday from Japan, where foreigners are somehow compelled to refer to the country of George Washington as "the States" ...