Tag: Japan

A few days ago my Japanese wife's uncle finally succumbed to his illness and passed away at the age of ...

Among other things, the Japanese are famous for being an indirect people, and for having a language that uses subtlety ...

Japanese TV commercials -- the word is always abbreviated as "CM" in Japanese -- never fail to impress me with ...

If you ever read a news article about an accident fatality that occurred in Japan, you'll read words like "the ...

I write a lot about how learning a foreign language like Japanese helps you understand how your own brain works. ...

Sometimes Japan seems to be a terribly dysfunctional place. Changing leaders every few months and building the Panama Canal worth ...

Autumn is here, and that means the return of nikuman (niku-mahn), those delicious Chinese steamed buns that they sell in ...

The other day my son had a holiday from school, so I took him to one of our favorite restaurants ...

China and Japan are in the middle of a diplomatic spat after a Chinese fishing boat collided with a Japan ...

A few updates ago I mentioned Saitama, the Japanese prefecture that's been made semi-famous as the home of Crayon Shin-chan, ...

Japan is an expensive place, and travelling inside the country can be costly, although there are some good ways to ...

The subject of Japan's shrinking birth rate -- called shoshika in Japanese -- is something I write about a lot, ...

If you ever visit Japan, it's good manners to bring gifts called omiyage (oh-mee-YAH-gay) to Japanese you will be visiting ...

For the past fifteen years, Japan has been fighting against the spectre of defure or deflation, in which prices decline ...

If you're in the New York area, you might consider checking out the exhibition Samurai in New York: The First ...

I continue to enjoy my time in the U.S., zooming around San Diego in my Mazda Miata, my favorite car ...

One fun group of Japanese words consists of a single word repeated twice, which makes the words more charming and ...

A language reflects the character of the people who use it, and vice-versa. One interesting bit of Japanese grammar students ...

I saw a news report about a new Japanese law governing the harvesting of living organs from brain-dead donors which ...

Yesterday I took my wife out to my favorite Mexican restaurant in San Diego. While she scarfed down the refried ...

Over the weekend I took a day off to spend some quality time with Mrs. J-List, visiting a nice hotel ...

"If there's a bright center to Britain, Number Four Privet Drive is the street that it's farthest from." I recently ...

If you walk around San Diego and happen to see some Japanese yen coins on the ground, I might have ...

In the tradition of the Seven Wonders of the World, the Japanese are keen on organizing famous places into convenient ...