Tag: gaijin

There are certain positive aspects of living in Japan, including toasty kotatsu heater tables, Japanese festivals, and beer vending machines. ...

The film version of Ender's Game -- or as the Japanese call it, Ender no Game -- finally opened in ...

It's fun to examine some of broader categories of anime that exist. There are harem anime like Infinite Stratos and ...

There are certain things the Japanese just seem to really like for reasons that are difficult for foreigners to understand. ...

It can be fun to pick random people in Japan's history and examine them. Like Ranald MacDonald, the first English ...

One theme I write about a lot is that Japanese don't always expect Westerners to speak Japanese, and will occasionally ...

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from J-List. We hope you are having a warm and special day surrounded by loved ...

One thing everyone knows about the Japanese people is that they use chopsticks to eat with. It's true: except for ...

There are certain things I will never understand about Japan, like their fascination with the number of creases a person ...

Today (December 23rd) is the birthday of the current Japanese emperor, Akihito, who happens to be the 125th ruler in ...

Well, the stockings are hung by the chimney with care, and we're all getting ready for a nice American-style Christmas ...

Hello from "the land of kawaii and sugoi," Japan! J-List is in full Christmas mode, packing and shipping hundreds of ...

I took a couple of days off this week to travel with an Italian friend of mine to Hakone, a ...

Maid cafes have become one of the more famous images of modern Japan, and when foreigners visit Akihabara they'll often ...

In Japan there are certain jobs that best performed by gaijin, a word that means foreigner, though in practice it ...

The Emperor of Japan is the ceremonial leader of the nation, defined by the 1947 postwar constitution as "the symbol ...

When you come to Japan for the first time, you'll encounter many strange things, like square watermelons (which are grown ...

There are many things about the Japanese that can cause foreigners to scratch our heads in confusion, and I thought ...

I've written before about the way Japan-related fandom can be a place where dreams come true. Many of Japan's professional ...

A new anime season is upon us, and I'm doing my best to keep up with the flood of new ...

Quick, what color are your eyes? You may have answered blue or hazel or brown, but if you were Japanese, ...

I'm safely back in Japan after a longer-than-usual flight, since it was from the East Coast instead of California, where ...

You probably take it for granted that during the course of your day you'll come into contact with people from ...

Food can be an important bridge between cultures, something Yasu and I are certainly learning here in the American South. ...