The other day I went to my son's school to watch the various end-of-year performances the students had prepared for ...
One way to compare Japan's more structured society with the U.S. and Europe is to look at the standardized Japanese ...
It's often said that Japanese society follows behind the West by one or two decades or so, and time and ...
Japan's tendency to rank individuals in groups as senpai (sem-PAI, a senior member of a group, or upperclassman) and kouhai ...
Hello from Japan, where some English words don't always mean what you think they mean -- for example, a "manicure" ...
Hello again from all of us in Japan! The second anniversary of the September 11 tragedy was marked in Japan ...
Hello again from Japan, where it's considered good manners to turn your car's headlights off at stoplights (to avoid blinding ...
Hello again from your friends in Japan! Now that Harry Potter-mania has died down, it's time for Lord of the ...
Hello again from your friends at J-List! First of all, we've had some problems with the J-List shopping cart taking ...
