Tag: gaijin

My son has officially finished the third grade, and will be beginning his new adventure next month, at an experimental ...

Japan is the land of the "boom." One year it's health drinks laced with amino acids, the next it's ring ...

Hello again from Japan! Today is a holiday here, Shunbun no Hi, or the first day of spring. It's nice ...

The month of March means different things to different people. In Japan it's a time of partings (wakare no kisetsu), ...

We woke up to a world of white this morning, as the Kanto area (the flat plain where Tokyo is ...

Japan can be an expensive place to live, but it can also be an expensive place to die, as well. ...

Hello all. I'm running later than usual because my dentist needed to fix my teeth today, Wednesday, rather than Tuesday, ...

Hello all. Finished the update a little late today. I'm in a hurry to get home (see below for the ...

Hello all. Apologies on posting this late -- I plum forgot to post the blog on Friday when I finished ...

Hello all. All is going well here in Japan, although it's on the cold side. I finally have a good ...

Hello all. Kind of tired today, as it's Friday and a rough one at that. But the weekend is near, ...

Hello all. Today is Monday here, which is always busy for us, since we have to do all of Sunday's ...

Hello all. I actually did the blog from two days ago yesterday, and so I decided to bump posting the ...

Here are today's pictures for all who care to see them. Today I'm showing you some of my recently cleaned-out ...

Hello everyone. This is my new J-List side blog, wherein I'll post various J-List and Japan related stuff, if I ...

Before I started J-List I was an English teacher, and taught ESL to a wide range of Japanese students, from ...

Hello to everyone in J-List land. It's time for another installment of the J-List Infrequent Updates, for people who receive ...

First of all, happy day after Thanksgiving, if you're in the U.S. -- we hope everyone had a warm and ...

The Japanese import many words from other languages for use in their daily lives. Usually the words are from English, ...

During my time here in Japan, I've had the pleasure of meeting a wide range of Japanese people, from children ...

There are always interesting ways to gain an understanding of a society through its language. One word that speaks to ...

Hello again from Japan, where going to Kentucky always means going out for fried chicken.Happy Birthday to Hello Kitty! When ...

Hello again from Japan, the home of a car called the Toyota Ism (named after the English suffix -ism, from ...

One of the biggest problems the Japanese face today is it's anemic birth rate of just 1.38 children born per ...