Tag: health

One unique aspect of companies in Japan is the way they do pretty much everything, without limiting themselves to one ...

Words are complex things, which naturally won't always match up on a 1:1 basis with words in another language. A ...

Over the years certain companies have found success here in Japan, including Nestle (they celebrate a century of selling coffee ...

As a native English speaker, it's nice that there are so many English loan words in use in Japanese, though ...

Right now it's extremely windy in Japan, with strong gusts fierce enough to rock our house and make us think ...

There are certain things that the Japanese love, including cat ears, mayonnaise, and green tea Kit Kat. They also love...insurance? ...

When you study Japanese, you have to come to grips with the fact that, while the rules that govern how ...

Today marks the return of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to power, as Shinzo Abe is officially confirmed as Japan's ...

I've learned some things about the Japanese people during my time here, which I thought I'd share with you. First, ...

I saw a report that Japan had fallen to 101st out of 135 countries with regards to gender equality, dropping ...

Japan is a great place, really, with clean streets that are always safe to walk down at night, an excellent ...

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

Japan is blessed in many ways, including having the longest life expectancy in the world. Today the Japanese Health Ministry ...

While I love Japan, there are some challenges to living here, including difficulty finding really good cheese, movie theaters that ...

Roughly speaking, Japan's historical relationship to China is similar to that of the West and ancient Rome and Greece: the ...

Today is a very special day, one I've been waiting for for a long time: Pocky Day, 2011. The Japanese ...

One of the more successful companies to emerge from Japan is Yakult, the maker of drinkable yogurt beverages that has ...

Just as ancient Greece and Rome serve as the foundation of Western civilization, Japan looks to China as the mother ...

Today is a holiday in Japan: Keiro no Hi, or Respect for the Aged Day. Celebrated nationally since 1966 -- ...

One theme I write about often is how important children are in Japan, and how much energy the country spends ...

There are certain positive aspects of living in Japan, including the fact that it's such a peaceful country -- you'll ...

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

Although you probably don't think of the Japanese as overweight, the problem is expanding waistlines is affecting people here, too. ...

Japan's masukomi -- what the news media is called here, from "mass communications" -- loves attaching labels to budding social ...