The Japanese are a very group-oriented people, and one of the worst things a person can be is nakama-hazure (nah-kah-mah ...
The Star Wars Celebration IV convention continues, and we're having lots of fun. Highlights have included Carrie Fisher coming by ...
The Star Wars Celebration IV convention is in full swing, and here in Los Angeles tens of thousands of fans ...
As part of my son's homework, he keeps a diary about the past day's events, alternating entries between Japanese and ...
You may have seen that Momofuku Ando, the Father of Instant Ramen, died recently. Momofuku, whose name meant "one hundred ...
It was Thomas Paine -- a possible ancestor of mine, although I somehow doubt it -- who uttered the words, ...
The fermented soybeans known as natto (NAT-toh) are one of the most famous foods in Japan, enjoyed throughout the country, ...
Japan is always ready to surprise you in one way or another, and some of the business practices employed here ...
Coming to Japan meant adjusting to many new things, from vending machines that accept the equivalent of $100 bills then ...
Japan is a land of conflicting themes, of high tech phones and glittering gadgets alongside abandoned pachinko parlors and that ...
Stereotypes are really not good, since they cause us to make assumptions about people from other countries before we've gotten ...
Saturday was "new keitai day" for our family, and we all went down to the local "au" store to get ...
Roughly speaking, Japan's historical relationship to China is similar to that of the West and ancient Rome and Greece: the ...
Well, A-Kon 17 is over and done, and all the fans have gone home. Tomorrow the J-List San Diego staff, ...
The first Japanese person to visit America was Manjiro Nakahama, a 14-year-old fisherman who was rescued in 1841 by an ...
The major link between North Korea and Japan is a cruise ship called the Mangyonbon-go, which makes regular trips between ...
Japan as a nation is getting older, and is having to come to terms with this fact sooner than other ...
I've written before about how the "eyes of others" (hito no me) can be a strong force in keeping Japanese ...
One of the engines that drives Japanese society and makes Japanese people the way they are is called hito no ...
Japan is a very literate nation, and there are many daily newspapers and weekly magazines that report and compile the ...
My diet has certainly changed since I came to Japan back in 1991. Like some Americans I wasn't too keen ...
Japan's come a long way from the classic image of "paper houses," but paper is still commonly used in modern ...
I've always believed that people will be what you expect them to be, and if you assume that people are ...
The Japanese are some of the longest-lived people on the planet, with women living 84 years and men 78 years, ...
