Tag: Japan

While it's generally fun to be a foreigner living in Japan -- the people are nice, the sushi is cheap ...

Part of Peter's Unified Theory of Japan is that the Japanese greatly desire to be seen in a favorable light ...

Before coming to Japan, I knew the Japanese drank "green tea," but naturally it was destined to be more complicated ...

If you ever go to Narita Airport, the international airport serving the Tokyo area, you might not be surprised by ...

Yesterday I had a nice day with my daughter, taking in a movie at a local shopping mall then grabbing ...

Before the new year arrived, I went to Yoshinoya for lunch for my official "last beef bowl of 2012," and ...

If you browse J-List's Home & Traditional page, where we stock fun and interesting things for your home along with ...

It's funny how we're all wired to perceive things a certain way, depending on what culture we come from. When ...

The word for "foreigner" in Japanese is 外人 gaijin, which actually meals "outside-person" (e.g. outsider), but since this word can ...

I like to watch late-night TV in Japan because there's always something interesting to see, like the show in which ...

Clang clang! Clang clang! Right outside my window right there's a fire truck driving by slowly, ringing a bell and ...

I've learned some things about the Japanese people during my time here, which I thought I'd share with you. First, ...

I write often about how the Japanese love it when foreigners take an interest in their culture, and nothing is ...

Kokusai kekkon, or international marriage, is a popular way for Japanese to find a partner who can provide something that ...

One interesting aspect of Japan is that they're the only country in the world that cares what foreigners think about ...

Stereotypes are bad because they cause us to make assumptions about people from other countries before we've gotten to know ...

The U.S. is currently embroiled in "election hell," and while this doesn't involve Mr. Obama and Mr. Romney driving around ...

Every language has dialects, and Japanese is no different. I've heard that since Japanese people are more likely to stay ...

One of the more important aspects of the Japanese is their humility, which is considered an important trait for both ...

I'm safely back in Japan after a pleasant flight on Korean Airlines, which I chose because I like their bibimbap, ...

If you go to Japan, you'll see many things there. Beautiful temples and shrines and sakura trees. Vending machines that ...

I saw that the U.S. had taken action to freeze the assets of a major yakuza group in the U.S., ...

Japan, of course, is a very seasonal place, with a strong tradition of doing different things during each of the ...

Japanese TV never fails to entertain, or to provide me with good neta, a word which means the fish part ...