Tag: Japan

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 ...

In a recent update I mentioned that the way to express the idea of "brown-nosing" someone was goma o suru, ...

This Sunday is my 12th anniversary as a J-blogger. J-List has been around since 1996, but I trace my beginning ...

You may know the Japanese word sumimasen, which generally corresponds to "excuse me" and is one of the more useful ...

Japan is probably the only country where eating too quietly will get comments from people around you. The correct way ...

One of the better aspects about living in Japan, from the point of view as a Yankee expat, is the ...

First of all, the J-List and JBOX.com websites were down for a portion of Saturday due to a site issue ...

Sunday was my birthday, and while turning 42 certainly has its own nerdy charm -- although I still don't know ...

Anime is a useful bridge between East and West since it allows you to pick up on some of the ...

For some reason, gaijin always seem to remember the first words of Japanese we learn. In my case it was ...

One of the challenges of getting used to my new life in Japan was the total lack of street names, ...

Japanese advertisers are a creative bunch of people, good at coming up with new and interesting ways to get consumers ...

It's funny how words move from one language group to another in this hyper-connected world we live in. Like the ...

One of my favorite foods is sushi, and when someone in our family has a birthday, we often send out ...

Well, Lost has finally ended, and I have to say thanks to the producers and cast for one wild wide. ...

Sometimes when we add new products to the J-List website, we've got a pretty good idea they might be popular ...

I recently passed by a restaurant I'd not been near for a while, and found myself doing a double take: ...