Tag: Godzilla

I've been blogging about Japan since 1998 -- actually a bit before then, but I officially trace my start as ...

Like many people, the Japanese are very health conscious, and it seems every time I watch daytime variety shows on ...

I've been enjoying my time in San Diego, zooming around the freeways as I drive to the J-List San Diego ...

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

Japan certainly has the power to confuse us with strange and wonderful things, and Japanese popular culture can be very ...

Today one of my Twitter followers asked me, "How did you learn Japanese?" That's quite a big topic, of course, ...

This Sunday is my 12th anniversary as a J-blogger. J-List has been around since 1996, but I trace my beginning ...

Congratulations to the Yankees for winning the World Series. Japan is extremely proud that their own Hideki Matsui played such ...

Every visitor to Japan develops, I think, a special relationship with Kyoto, the beautiful city that was capital of Japan ...

One thing I really like about being so involved with Japanese popular culture is the global nature of it, how ...

Many English speakers know the Japanese word wa (和） which means harmony and peace, and in some cases additionally refers ...

One subject of interest in Japan is kokusai kekkon, or international marriage involving a Japanese and a person from another ...

We're on our way back from Las Vegas, tired but sated from our time here. The AVN show was good ...

Japanese food is famous for containing things not usually eaten by Westerners, something which I was reminded of when my ...

Hello from beautiful Kyoto! I took a couple of days off work to take my mother, who is visiting from ...

Hello all. It's Monday but because today is Coming-of-Age Day (see below), the kids have school off, even though they ...

Hello again from Japan, home of cars with names like the Largo Wagonist and Suzuki Perky.Back when I was single, ...

You probably know that the Japanese eat whale, which is "kujira" in Japanese (some trivia for you: Godzilla got his ...

Hello again from all your friends in Japan!Japan is currently full of anxiety over the future of the national pension ...

Hello again from your friends in Japan!Ask any gaijin living in Japan about dentists here, and you'll be sure to ...

Hello and Happy Friday from all of us in Japan!One of the coolest "needless items" that can be found Japan ...

Hello again from all your friends at J-List!In my general overview of the Japanese language and collection of advice for ...

Hello again from your friends in Japan! Things have really changed in Japan in the last twelve years or so ...

Hello and TGIF from all of us in Japan! It's Friday in Japan, and I'm taking a rare day off ...