Tag: Japan

The Fourth of July is a great summer "festival" in the U.S., a day to celebrate America's birthday, eat hot ...

The Summer of 2011 has begun in ernest, and it's definitely going to be a dicey one for Japan. The ...

Fire is a constant problem in Japan, a country taken with building houses of wood and paper then heating them ...

Japan is well known as one of the most aged societies on the planet, with an amazing 22% of the ...

One observation I've made about the Japanese people is that they often don't pay close attention to their own language, ...

Sometimes it's fun to deconstruct the bizarre "physics" of anime, which violate the laws of the universe we live in ...

In Japanese there are some amusing phonetic conventions that get used in advertising, which are interesting for a gaijin to ...

My home town of San Diego has just two seasons: sunny and slightly less sunny. In contrast, Japan has very ...

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 ...