Tag: history

I often get mail from people planning a trip to Tokyo, asking me to recommend some sightseeing spots. While there ...

I once had a friend with an old car that leaked oil, so that whenever he wanted to drive somewhere ...

This year is the 100th year of the birth of Osamu Dazai, one of the major Japanese writers of the ...

At J-List, we like to encourage interest in learning Japanese, since it's such a rewarding language to study whether you're ...

When you take the train from Tokyo to Kyoto, the train line you use is the Tokaido Line. I've always ...

What a difference an elongated vowel can make. Japanese is quite different from English, having had a totally unique developmental ...

Perhaps it's because I come from a country without a very long history, but I really love walking in old ...

The other day I turned on my TV and was greeted with an unexpected sight: popular SMAP singer and "talent" ...

Japan certainly is a country that's in touch with its "inner cute," and it's amazing how easily boring products can ...

Yes, I am finally getting around to posting my pictures from my trip to frozen (well, slightly cool) northern Japan. ...

Quick: name one way that the Confederate States of America contributed to the creation of modern Japan? Well, I'll tell ...

This week J-List's own Tomo, the employee who keeps our site well stocked with interesting DVDs, Hello Kitty shoulder massagers ...

You've been in Japan too long when you get a nihongo ga jozu ("you speak Japanese very well") and feel ...

Over the weekend I took my son to Matsumoto Castle in Nagano Prefecture, one of the most beautiful castles in ...

I'm often asked how Japanese view the gaijin that live in their midst, disrupting the precious harmony the country is ...

You've been in Japan too long when you see a road with two lanes going in the same direction and ...

Japan is an archipelago consisting of more than 6800 islands, which was created by the volcanic activity that gives the ...

Bad news for anyone in Japan who likes sleeping late in the mornings: election season will be starting at the ...

For whatever reason, one of the themes of Japanese society is that its citizens don't show much in the way ...

Do you know the story of Japan's most famous dog? His name was Hachi, an Akita dog who was owned ...

I'm big fan of Japanese girls and the kawaii things they do, and when I was a teacher, I loved ...

Japan's judicial world is undergoing big changes as the country prepares to introduce a "citizen juror" system in which guilt ...

It's fun to dig around Japanese history for interesting tidbits to discover. Like William Adams, the Englishman who arrived in ...

2009 is the 150th anniversary of the opening of the port of Yokohama, which began when Admiral Matthew Perry sailed ...