Tag: Japan

In Japanese politics, as elsewhere, certain words or phrases get permanently attached to politicians. When Shinzo Abe came into office ...

When a foreigner first comes to live in Japan, there are many small things they'll notice. Ceramic roof tiles on ...

We never think about idioms in our own language, but to non-native speakers, learning the meanings of phrases like "to ...

I love getting a haircut in Japan. The barber shop I use rents space inside a lobby of a large ...

While most people in the U.S. probably opt for a shower to get clean, in Japan hopping in the furo ...

One thing that's fun about having kids is all the creative observations they make. Like the time my daughter saw ...

When foreigners come to live in Japan, there are certain skills they will need to acquire. When I first arrived ...

Every visitor to Japan develops, I think, a special relationship with Kyoto, the beautiful city that was capital of Japan ...

If you want to live in Japan, there are certain skills you'll need to acquire. For example, you should be ...

It's known that the Japanese eat with chopsticks with almost every meal, deftly picking up even the tiniest morsels of ...

It's funny how so many of the foods eaten by the Japanese on a daily basis aren't very Japanese at ...

If you've listened to spoken Japanese at all you've probably heard the word desu, often pronounced with the last syllable ...

There are many good things about being in the U.S., like being able to order a taco without getting octopus, ...

We certainly had fun in Las Vegas, enjoying some quality down time. On the way back to San Diego, our ...

There have been a lot of changes in Japanese society since we started J-List in 1996. First, the old concept ...

Well, the International Day of the iPhone is here, when Apple's new 3G iPhone launches around the world. In Japan, ...

There are three kinds of employees in Japan: full time, part time, and arubaito (ah-roo-BAI-toh). The last type, the name ...

You've been in Japan too long when you pay over $70 for a Captain Santa T-shirt and realize a few ...

One of my favorite movies is Pleasantville, a fun film about two modern-day teenagers who get transported inside a 1950s-era ...

As an American living in Japan, I know how surprised Japanese can get when foreigners internalize the society around them ...

The terrible rise in suicides in Japan (more than 33,000 last year) has everyone talking about what can be done ...

It's still drizzling in Japan, as rainy season continues dumping an extra helping of precipitation on the Japanese islands. This ...

One of the most important concepts in daily life in Japan is shinyo (SHIN-yo), which means "trust," and when Japanese ...

Japan is a country that likes to think of itself as coming from more or less the same genetic stock, ...