Tag: Japan

Japan is nothing if not innovative when it comes to marketing products, and they've come up with some great ideas ...

Although Japan might be famous for sake, the beverage most people order when it's time to relax after a hard ...

Anime is a great bridge between Japan and the rest of the world, an enjoyable way for us all to ...

Happy birthday to the oldest person in the world, Misao Okawa, who turned 116 years old yesterday. Ms. Okawa was ...

One of the more random aspects of life in Japan is seeing famous Hollywood actors appear in TV commercials, Lost ...

Slang are non-standard words which are created when people want to add a unique flavor to their speech, or when ...

Being a Japan blogger, I often read comments from young people around the world about how they "wished they'd been ...

This Saturday, February 22, is 猫の日 neko no hi or Cat Day here in Japan, due to the fact that ...

One interesting oddity about the Japanese is their odd compulsion with blood types, and I remember reading Saint Seiya manga ...

I've been a fan of science fiction ever since I picked up the Ray Bradbury short story "Frost and Fire," ...

One thing I like about Twitter and Facebook is the ability to have random conversations with readers, and often when ...

The decades after WWII have seen some successful American businesses establish themselves in Japan, including Coca-Cola, Toys R Us and ...

The J-List staff had fun at our New Year's Party on Friday, eating and drinking on J-List's tab as a ...

There are some fundamental differences between Japan and the West, for example the way there are no anatomically-based swear words ...

I write often about the concept of 国民性 kokumin-sei, a word which can be translated as "national character," and one ...

Japan has been getting some good news on the economic front lately, with a key price index that showed strong ...

All around our city there are these metal plates put up by our local PTA on which are written interesting ...

It's fun to look at Japan's 芸能界 geinou-kai or entertainment world, which encompasses all actors, singers, bikini idols, comedians and ...

The Japanese are big fans of traveling abroad, and there are hundreds of travel agencies that provide cheap package tours ...

I write often about how one of the joys of living in Japan is experiencing exceptional service, which is all ...

Today (December 12) is 漢字の日 kanji no hi or Kanji Day, a day for appreciating the role of Chinese characters ...

It's fun to try to understand Japan by thinking about its culture from new directions, for example through the aesthetic ...

Westerners seem hopelessly taken with the mysteries of kanji characters, often choosing to get exotic tattoos with Chinese characters on ...

We're currently finishing up some construction on the land behind J-List, erecting a concrete wall to keep rainwater from running ...