Tag: Haruhi

Saying Goodbye to J-List T-Shirts I've always considered this wonky, weird company called J-List to be a giant dodecahedron, a ...

I hope everyone is enjoying Friday, and getting ready to have a great weekend. I decided to do a special ...

Japanese cosplayer Kitaro resembles Haruhi perfectly. Kitaro has gracefully recreated Haruhi’s winter school uniform along with a well styled auburn ...

When I decided to minor in Japanese back at SDSU, I had to choose one Japan-related elective class in addition ...

One of the proudest days in the lives of parents is going shopping with their child to buy a school ...

I like to read sci-fi novels with mind-bogglingly big ideas in them. One series I enjoyed was the Uplift Saga ...

Last time I mentioned the words uchi and soto, meaning in-group and out-group, which is a favorite topic of Japan ...

One of the biggest challenges Japan faces in the decades ahead is shoshika, or the reduced number of children due ...

Last time I wrote about how the name a person calls another says a lot about their relationship, whether they ...

Japan is a subtle place, where people often substitute vague, indirect language when discussing things they don't want to talk ...

I wrote last week that the Japanese were quite possibly the most polite people in the world, which is one ...

The Japanese are a very health-minded group of people, a fact observed by Aflac founder John Amos when he visited ...

I'm rushing to finish this update a little early since tonight we're having the J-List shinnen-kai, or New Year's Party. ...

Although most Japanese study English for six years, or up to ten if they take it in university, they're not ...

One way to make sense of Japan is by understanding the concepts of wabi and sabi, two words which sum ...