Tag: Japan

When a foreigner comes to Japan, they usually try to catalog and analyize all the strange things they see, but ...

When foreigners visit Japan, they naturally focus on certain areas that stand out to them as unique, like maid cafes ...

When I first got to Japan, I was extremely motivated to learn Japanese, which was a good thing since the ...

Living in Japan teaches you many things. You learn to park your car in impossibly small spaces, and increase your ...

One of the defining features of the Japanese is their love for the "four" seasons and the unique qualities of ...

I still remember my first day of Japanese class back at SDSU, when our teacher taught us one of the ...

We continue to make improvements to the J-List site based on customer feedback (thanks!). Today we've reworked the customer account ...

Although I enjoy all manner of Japanese foods from sushi to sashimi to oyako-don (literally, "parent-and-child rice bowl" consisting of ...

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 ...