Tag: Japan

A week or so ago, a bizarre-looking deep-sea fish called Ryugu-no-Tsukai, which Wikipedia tells me is "oarfish" in English, started ...

From the Jedi Knights to the Kobayashi Maru to William Gibson's inclusion of Black Black caffeine gum in his cyberpunk ...

One aspect of Japan I've written about many times is the way Japanese are tickled to death when any of ...

One way of making sense of Japan is through the concept of kata, a word which means "form" and which ...

Recently I talked about "fake dialects" of Japanese that are often heard in anime, which can add much to the ...

One Japanese TV show I watch every once in a while is "Unbelievable!" in which famed Japanese director and squeaking ...

I love running a unique company like J-List, really I do, but there are certain frustrations that come with being ...

Sometimes the most mundane Japanese TV shows turn out to be interesting. Like one I caught the other day called ...

As a general rule, the Japanese have a very laissez faire attitude when it comes religion, blending Shinto and Buddhism ...

Japan's sumo world was rocked today by the announcement that Mongolian wrestler Asashoryu, the top-ranked yokozuna (Grand Champion) in the ...

The tradition of retail establishments offering excellent service to customers is one of my favorite aspects of Japan, and if ...

We're having a bit of a "Korea Boom" in my house right now, courtesy of my wife. Like millions of ...

Besides making the freeways here actually "free" -- a policy that's received surprisingly little support once people realized the horrific ...

I've written before about how people who are bilingual actually develop separate personalities for each language, and it's interesting to ...

It's hard to think of a company that's changed our lives over the past decade more than Google. In their ...

I happened to see a report that put Japan's gross domestic product per capita -- the amount of goods and ...

How would you feel if the government lost your Social Security records, so that years of work and payments into ...

Yesterday marked the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the U.S. and Japan, which outlines ...

This morning my wife walked into my office with a beautifully ornate wooden name plate, which she placed on top ...

The other day I took some time off to hit one of the onsen hot springs located near J-List. My ...

The current economic hard times are bringing some changes to Japan, especially in the area of fashion. In the past, ...

Today is a holiday in Japan, Seijin-no-hi, or Coming of Age Day, when everyone who turns 20 years old this ...

Living in a place as homogeneous as Japan brings out some interesting psychoses in people, and one could fill a ...

Japan's entertainment world is a very unique place, and it's interesting to observe it with my gaijin's eyes. Any given ...