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Yesterday was St. Patrick's Day, a celebration of all things Irish in the U.S. and, presumeably, Ireland. As you might ...

I get a lot of mail from people who'd like to live in Japan someday, and I do my best ...

Many people first experience Japan through its animation, which has been a staple of entertainment here since Astro Boy was ...

Last time I put forth the idea that perhaps one solution to Japan's birth rate woes might lie in international ...

One way to compare Japan's more structured society with the U.S. and Europe is to look at the standardized Japanese ...

Perhaps more than any other people, the Japanese import words from other languages for their daily use, nearly always taking ...

A word you hear a lot in Japan is jiko shoukai (自己紹介) which just means "self introduction" but which has ...

During my time studying Japanese and teaching in Japan, I've met many different types of Japanese people: hardworking salarymen and ...

The Japanese love movies, and watch a lot of them. Happily for gaijin like myself, they usually prefer watching U.S. ...

Japan can be a superstitious place, with many beliefs that aren't always easy for Westerners to accept. In addition to ...

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

Every few weeks my kids bug me to take them to the "ge-sen," or game center, and I give in ...

Hello all. I remembered to do the blog posting this time! Today's J-List post is below. You can also read ...

Hello, all. It's mid-week and we're all doing fine. Although I got to work late today, I'm ahead of schedule ...

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

Japan can be a very uniform place: because things like education and transportation policy tend to get decided on a ...

Florida has really been hit with some powerful storms this season, and we hope that all our customers in the ...

Hello from Japan, where you order french fries in restaurants by asking for "potato." Japan's electronics industry is a very ...

Hello again from J-List -- it's time for another slice of life from Japan!Each country in the world has what ...

Hello again from Japan, where drivers should always practice "safety driving."When foreigners come to Japan for the first time, one ...

Hello again from all of us at J-List!It's been said that the construction industry is to Japan what defense is ...

Hello again from all of us at J-List!It seems that a Japanese city can't be complete until it has a ...

Hello again from all of us in Japan!It's official: as of 2003, there are more drivers on Japanese roads aged ...

Hello from J-List! Spring is beginning to spring here in Japan, a time that's called Haru Ichiban in Japanese. On ...