Tag: gaijin

If you want to learn about the cultural differences between East and West, I recommend marry a Japanese woman. The ...

Japanese animation is fun for people from all over the world because the stories appeal to us even though we ...

The word for "eye" in Japanese is me (pronounced "meh"), although there's a more poetic-sounding alternative word, hitomi, which is ...

I've always been a huge fan of Christmas, and when the season approaches you can always see me with a ...

I talked a couple weeks ago about how the Japanese language lacks definite and indefinite articles like "a" and "the" ...

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

In my city there's a bridal shop that sells the most beautiful wedding kimonos for happy Japanese brides to wear, ...

Although Japan is certainly not a perfect place, in general there are benefits for gaijin who come here to live. ...

There are many important milestones that a foreigner trying to master Japanese will face. Ordering in a restaurant for the ...

As with other countries, there are many foreigners living and working in Japan, each contributing to society in different ways. ...

One of the many products J-List carries is a fun film called Big Dreams, Little Tokyo, a movie I like ...

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

There are interesting ways to gain an understanding of a society through its language. Two words that speak to Japan's ...

My wife came into my office the other day holding the latest copy of Newsweek (the Japanese version) that contained ...

The Japanese use a lot of English, but it's not always easy for gaijin to figure out what's being said. ...

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

I was recently asked "Are Japanese afraid of gaijin?" It was an interesting question which I had to think on ...

Sometimes I think my family would make the basis for an interesting anime series, along the lines of Darling wa ...

My daughter's been quite happy in school recently, after a trip she took with her class a few weeks ago ...

One of the cardinal rules for gaijin coming to Japan is, try your best to make it over here as ...

The most common word for "foreigner" in Japanese is gaijin, written using the characters for "outside" and "person." While ostensibly ...

It's known that the Japanese eat with chopsticks with almost every meal, deftly picking up even the tiniest morsels of ...

I write a lot about how one of the challenging aspects of leaning Japanese is getting in tune with what ...

Imagine if 25% of all Americans lived around the Washington DC area? It would be pretty crowded, and not very ...