Tag: Hatsune Miku

This may not exactly come as a surprise, but I love anime fandom. It's a warm and comfortable place filled ...

Yesterday I took a trip to Takasaki to visit the local branch of the Tokyo Immigration Office. I was there ...

Every couple of years an anime season comes along that's overflowing with must-watch series, and the current batch of shows ...

Over the weekend I took a drive with Mrs. J-List up to the mountains above Karuizawa, the pleasant city in ...

The other day I went with my wife to eat at our favorite soba noodle restaurant. After a strapping young ...

One big trend over the past few years has been "otaku marketing," tying product brands to anime series that fans ...

In addition to hay fever season in Japan, it's also time to prepare for the start of the new school ...

One aspect of the Japanese I'm a fan of is their humility, the general tendency to be self-effacing and avoid ...

One reason I'm able to live happily in Japan is that I love the food here, and while I'm always ...

If you watch anime in Japanese at all, one word you may have learned is suki which means "like," usually ...

Tensions are running high in Asia these days over territorial issues which are starting to affect politics and economics in ...

Today is the "birthday" of Hatsune Miku, the popular Vocaloid singer that has come to represent Japan in the eyes ...

We're right in the middle of Obon (pronounced "oh, bone"), an important four-day Buddhist holiday during which Japanese return to ...

Hello again. I've hopped over to the East Coast to visit with family and do some fun sightseeing with my ...

Wednesday marked Independence Day in the U.S., and since Anime Expo was kind enough to end before the holiday this ...

Earlier this year I took a trip to Australia, which was a lot of fun. I noticed something while I ...

Although I do my best to be a gentleman, there are times when I've inadvertantly been less than chivalrous to ...

The other day I took my family out for sushi because it was Kodomo no Hi or "Children's Day," one ...

As I often write here, each nation has a unique "national character" which the Japanese call kokumin-sei. Part of Japan's ...

It seems that a Japanese city can't be complete until it has a big tower for tourists to visit and ...

Although many Japanese will deny having a religion, when all is said and done Japan is a very Buddhist nation. ...

My son and I had a blast up in northern Japan. Our first stop was the city of Sapporo, the ...

There are certain eternal questions that foreigners have about Japan. For example, the word ao (AH-oh) means "blue" yet is ...

One aspect of learning a foreign language is getting a handle on its jokes, gags and other forms of humor. ...