Tag: Japan

One TV show I like a lot is Eigo de Shabera Night, an educational variety show put on by NHK ...

I'm of the opinion that every young person should live outside their home country for at least a year, if ...

You never know what wacky thing Japan will think of next. As Japanese get older, the divorce rate is on ...

Dealing with Japan often involves encountering new paradigms, a concept I encountered when I came to Japan as an ESL ...

I like to write about my impressions of the Japanese language and how it differs from English, since language is ...

It's said in Japan that the U.S. is a "horizontal" society (in Japanese, yoko no shakai) while Japan is "vertical" ...

While Japan has always had a reputation for taking ideas from the West and improving on them (sometimes beyond recognition), ...

Today marks one month since the terrible earthquake and tsunamis that caused so much devastation in Japan. It's been a ...

April is the season of beginnings in Japan, as heralded by the coming of the cherry blossoms to every corner ...

There are many ways you can help Japan. Donating to Red Cross Japan might be difficult from outside the country, ...

My family and I have safely made the hop back to Japan. Although we had fun in San Diego, zipping ...

When dealing with Japan, it's natural to encounter some "WTF" moments, like seeing a strawberry & whipped cream sandwich for ...

You've been in Japan too long when, while watching the morning "wide show" on TV, you wonder if the phrase ...

Raising children in Japan has certainly been an interesting experience for me, and I've passed through many different phases along ...

One impression foreigners get when they come to Japan is how nice and polite most Japanese people are, always saying ...

My high school entrance gift to my son was to get him an iPhone 4, so the other day we ...

As with any language, Japanese has certain weirdness built into it. There are, of course, words for occupations which have ...

Last time I wrote about the concept of "bottle keep," which is when you pre-purchase a bottle of liquor for ...

One concept in Japan I like a lot is shinrai (SHEEN-rye), which just means "trust," although as is usually the ...

I write a lot about wacky Japanese television because, well, it's so wacky. While I do my best to correct ...

One of the defining features of the Japanese people is humility, known as kenson (ken-sohn). This manifests itself in interesting ...

The other day I called the hotel I usually stay at whenever I go to Tokyo -- Hotel Mets Shibuya, ...

Things I like about winter in Japan: wearing my hanten kimono coat while enjoying a dinner of nabe with the ...

Late night TV in Japan is always fun. One show I like to catch sometimes is called Arita and MMatsuko ...