Tag: history

If you met a Japanese person whose's name was Honda or Kawasaki or Suzuki, you might smirk a little to ...

Expats like me have a lot of fun coming to Japan and blogging about what we see here, but we're ...

The relationship of the Japanese and radiation is a unique one, as they're the only people in the history of ...

I recently watched "Get Lamp," an interesting documentary on the history of text adventure games, going back to the very ...

I happened to see that the "manifesto" of Norwegian gunman and all-around asshat Anders Behring Breivik included words of praise ...

One thing you don't generally think of a lot is addresses and how they work, or how easy it is ...

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

I'm one of the lucky few people in the world whose job it is to watch anime, and I've been ...

Japan is a special place, and when foreigners visit the country for the first time it's a truly magical thing ...

One useful way of understanding Japan as a whole is using the idea of kata, a word that can mean ...

While Japan has always had a reputation for taking ideas from the West and improving on them (sometimes beyond recognition), ...

The ongoing crisis in Japan has caused a lot of deep thinking about the country in general by the Western ...

The drama in Japan continues, two weeks after the worst earthquake in the country's history, and every day brings new ...

Japan's crisis continues, though things are slowly coming under control. As calm returns and companies work hard to normalize the ...

It's now been a week since the the earthquake that devastated much of northern Japan and shifted the Earth's axis ...

I've written before about how Japanese is based on syllables rather than individual sounds, meaning you can express ka, ki, ...

The main Japanese island of Honshu is divided into five regions, which are (moving from west to east), Chugoku, where ...

Japan uses kanji characters to communicate written meaning, a system that has worked for the Chinese for the past 3000 ...

One unexpected aspect of expat life in Japan is making friends with gaijin -- the word the Japanese use for ...

One of the more amazing stories of World War II is that of Tsutomu Yamaguchi, the man who survived not ...

One aspect of the Japanese is that they don't show their emotions as freely or in the same ways that ...

There are many things I like about Japan, like turning on the kotatsu for the first time in winter, eating ...

Like most parents in Japan, I closely followed the interests of my kids as they were growing up. When my ...

Since the end of World War II, Japan has been an extremely peaceful country, knowing no war and comparatively little ...