Tag: history

Hello again from all of us at J-List! Each language has its own set of different features. Some languages are ...

Hello from Japan, where everything is as different as it could be from the U.S., it seems sometimes. Even the ...

Greetings and salutations from Japan! When I came to Japan in 1992, I excepted to see nothing but little tiny ...

Hello again from your friends in Japan! Rice is the national staple food of the Japanese, and almost everyone eats ...

Hello again from all of us in Japan! The Japanese do many things that perplex the gaijin who live here. ...

Greetings from Japan, where they love to invent words like "amenity communicator." Well, the existence of God has proven -- ...

Hello from a very wet Japan. We're about to be visited by Typhoon No. 6, a big, mean storm that's ...

Hello again from all of us at J-List! We noticed many differences between Europe and Japan while we were there, ...

Greetings from the J-List team! We enjoyed out last days in Germany, taking the train to see the bustling city ...

Hello again from your friends in Japan! Well, the World Cup is going on now, and I could feel the ...

Hello again from your friends in Japan! Yasu and I went down to the Tokyo Toy Show at Tokyo Big ...

Hello and TGIF from all of us in Japan! One thing I've learned from my years in Japan is that ...

Hello again from Japan! In Japan, the oldest son in a family has certain responsibilities to their household and parents, ...

Hello again from Japan, where you never stand your chopsticks straight up in rice (only dead people do this). In ...

Hello and TGIF from Japan! I often look back on my years of teaching English as a Second Language to ...

Hello again from your friendly neighborhood gaijin! When you live in Japan, you get used going without some things that ...

Greetings and salutations from your friends in Japan, at J-List! Whenever you go to live in a new country, you're ...

Hello again from Japan, where having kids means never getting to take a bath by yourself. Tomorrow is a big ...

Hello again from Japan, where drivers turn off their headlights at intersections to be polite to other drivers.Japan is not, ...

Hello again from your friends in Japan! Japanese is a linguistically impoverished language -- there are only 5 vowels, all ...

Hello again from your good friends at J-List! We've got a new face around here at J-List, Mayumi Ishiwata, age ...

Hello again from Japan! We continue to watch the events from Afghanistan as they develop. We've seen a great deal ...

Hello again from your good friends at J-List! When encountering another culture, it's often easy to get a self-centered vision ...

Hello again from your good friends in Japan, J-List! Japanese history is interesting to study, and one of my favorite ...