Tag: Japan

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 ...

The anime industry has certainly gone through changes over the years. You could break it down into different eras, perhaps ...

I took a couple of days off this week to travel with an Italian friend of mine to Hakone, a ...

One of the more welcome developments in the anime world has been the return of Sailor Moon merchandise after an ...

There are some things you say when you live in Japan that you'd certainly never utter back home. For example, ...

Maid cafes have become one of the more famous images of modern Japan, and when foreigners visit Akihabara they'll often ...

"The distance from Earth to space is the same as from Tokyo to Hakone, about 50 miles/80 km." This was ...

In Japan there are certain jobs that best performed by gaijin, a word that means foreigner, though in practice it ...

The Japanese are masters when it comes to committing information to memory, like the man who memorized pi to 100,000 ...