Tag: gaijin

One reason I'm a fan of Twitter, Facebook and Google Plus is, it's easy to talk with customers and exchange ...

Akihabara is the area of Tokyo famous for its Electric Town shopping district and for being the international center of ...

Some good news for foreigners living in Japan: a new Alien Registration System is coming which will make it easier ...

I started watching Another last night, a dark horror-themed anime which caught my eye because the characters were created by ...

There are some fundamental differences between Japan and the U.S. which I like to explore from time to time. The ...

One of the best aspects of living in Japan is the honesty and integrity of Japanese people, and as a ...

The other day I got a treat when I went home for dinner: masu no sushi, delicious trout sushi on ...

One of the more interesting aspects of Japan is the top-down nature of its society, how it's ostensibly structured in ...

One of the more interesting things about living in Japan is getting used to using a "name stamp." While signatures ...

If you met a Japanese person whose's name was Honda or Kawasaki or Suzuki, you might smirk a little to ...

Expats like me have a lot of fun coming to Japan and blogging about what we see here, but we're ...

Coming to live in Japan means getting used to some new things. Pizza with squid, corn and mayonnaise on top. ...

Yesterday was an important day for me -- the 20th anniversary of my arrival in Japan! It was a cloudy ...

While the average Japanese person on the street may think there are "a lot" of foreigners in Japan, in reality ...

Although Japanese has a reputation for being the "hardest" language to learn -- St. Francis Xavier famously said it was ...

For students of foreign languages, whether Japanese working hard to learn English or us gaijin studying Japanese, success often comes ...

The relationship of the Japanese and radiation is a unique one, as they're the only people in the history of ...

Sumo wrestling is the national sport of Japan, practiced for centuries and granted special status by the Japanese government. Although ...

In addition to our popular Facebook page and the Tumblr I launched a few months ago, I have a fairly ...

The other day I caught a CNN blog post about the term otaku, and whether it was a positive or ...

I managed to catch a natsu-kaze or "summer cold" which has knocked me out for the past couple of days, ...

Since I had the weekend to myself, I decided to pick the farthest onsen I could get to conveniently and ...

Over the weekend I took a trip into Tokyo to meet some friends from the States who were in Japan ...

I wrote last week that the Japanese were quite possibly the most polite people in the world, which is one ...