Tag: Japan

I write a lot about how Japanese names work, since they're quite different from names in Western languages. Japanese people ...

One of the joys of being a long-term gaijin in Japan is eventually building a house here. Houses in Japan ...

Before I started J-List, I had a career as a teacher of eikaiwa or English conversation. In Japan there's a ...

After studying Japanese for four years at San Diego State University and living here for nearly twenty years, I'm about ...

Late-night TV in Japan is always fun to watch, and I like to flip through the channels to see what's ...

The Japanese government will soon be making good on its promise of distributing money to families with children, giving approximately ...

Have you noticed more Japanese people around you over the past couple of days? If so, it may be due ...

Japanese marrying partners from other countries is called kokusai kekkon, and it's viewed by many here as an alternative choice ...

The Japanese government has rolled out a new logo and slogan designed to encourage more tourists to come and experience, ...

Unfortunately the announcement of the new J-List retail shop in Akihabara turned to be an April Fool's joke (heh, even ...

It's hanami season in Japan, a period of approximately ten days when the millions of cherry trees located in Japanese ...

One thing I like about running J-List is being able to help people be closer to Japan. One of my ...

My daughter is pretty smart. The other day I was getting on her case for watching too much YouTube at ...

It's interesting to see the random cultural tidbits you can pick up watching anime. Like the scene in K-On! in ...

Sometimes it's fun to flip through the channels late at night and see what wackiness Japanese television has for me. ...

Spring vacation has come to Japan, and as a parent this means I've got two teenagers under foot for the ...

Alcohol has historically played an important social role in Japan, and it's interesting to examine some of the customs that ...

Japan has certainly had a unique history. Compared with most other nations, it got a late start, importing its writing ...

One way to make sense of Japan is by understanding the concepts of wabi and sabi, two words which sum ...

It's interesting how Japanese society divides itself into different tribes, or zoku, which always seem to come with interesting and ...

I recently came across a blog post by an American who'd lived in Japan for several years, but who'd suddenly ...

Today is the 65th anniversary of the Great Tokyo Air Raid. On this day, 300 B-29 Superfortresses flying out of ...

While Japan represents the second largest market for Apple's Macintosh computers, making headway here hasn't always been easy, which is ...

I'm always happy to offer random advice about what to see when planning a trip to Japan. While the Kansai ...