Tag: history

Running a business in Japan naturally means I have to interview Japanese job applicants who want to work for J-List, ...

The Japanese government has rolled out a new logo and slogan designed to encourage more tourists to come and experience, ...

Tomorrow is the 65th anniversary of the sinking of the Yamato, the most famous Japanese battleship of World War II. ...

The Season of the Sakura has come to Japan, and all throughout the country cherry trees are exploding like beautiful ...

In the history of music there have been few performers quite like "Weird Al" Yankovic, who's been creating funny parodies ...

Japan has certainly had a unique history. Compared with most other nations, it got a late start, importing its writing ...

I saw a blog post that said the out-of-favor Liberal Democratic Party was considering issuing a bill to create military ...

For me, one of the more interesting periods of Japan's history is the Meiji Era, when the country transformed itself ...

I saw on CNN's website that Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada had officially apologized for colonizing the Korean peninsula from ...

If you've been reading my twitter feed lately, you might have noticed me writing about an interesting BBC documentary I'd ...

Besides making the freeways here actually "free" -- a policy that's received surprisingly little support once people realized the horrific ...

The other day I was shopping in a supermarket when I suddenly came face to face with two girls around ...

Whenever we go to the U.S. for a visit, it seems we discover new differences between our two home countries, ...

The year 2010 marks the 1300th anniversary of the founding of Nara, the former capital of Japan and one of ...

My wife is a very happy woman, thanks to NHK, Japan's version of the BBC and the Domo-kun people. Every ...

We had a nice Japanese-style New Year's at home in San Diego. After cleaning the house from top-to-bottom (known as ...

Among the fun things we're doing here in Las Vegas, we took the kids to see Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition ...

All things considered, it's nice to be able to speak Japanese. You can talk to people in Japan who you ...

The other day I was watching a BBC documentary on ancient history, because BBC documentaries are awesome -- I hope ...

World War II was a tumultuous time, and it's interesting looking at the various ways our current image of Japan ...

When you drive in the city of Takasaki, located next to J-List's home of Isesaki and the Gunma prefectural capital ...

The three most important names in Japanese history are the "three unifiers" who brought the country out of its chaotic ...

You've been in Japan too long when you air-drum in your car while listening to the U.S. Military radio news ...

Congratulations to the Yankees for winning the World Series. Japan is extremely proud that their own Hideki Matsui played such ...