Tag: gender

A short time ago, Peter (Your Friend in Japan) discussed why we love genderswap anime. While he gave a good rundown ...

One of the most popular genres of anime involves stories in which drama is created when a character's gender changes. ...

Reborn to Master the Blade, the shortened version of the proper English title Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King ...

I started studying Japanese at SDSU back in 1988. When a person learns a new language, they actually develop a ...

Japan is buzzing this week after the release of the World Happiness Report, a publication put out every year by ...

Kanji, of course, are the characters that communicate meaning in written Japanese, imported from China around the 4th Century A.D. ...

Japan got some bad news when it was revealed that the population of the country dropped at a faster rate ...

There are many differences between Japan and the U.S., and some of them can be downright hard to reconcile. When ...

One of the more surprising aspects of Japanese popular culture is the number of stories featuring characters of questionable gender, ...

Getting into anime means exposing yourself to a lot of new ideas, for example learning concepts like senpai and kohai ...

You can learn a lot about Japan through its language, including such simple things as first and second-person pronouns, which ...

I noticed that Japan had been officially ranked 97th in gender equality by the World Economic Forum, comparing to the ...

It seems that every time I notice a really attractive Japanese actress on TV, like the talented Hitomi Kuroki, my ...