Tag: Japan

Over the last couple of months, I have been reliving my youth by re-watching the original Japanese program Iron Chef ...

“Anime Everywhere” could be the catchphrase of the day. Wizards of the Coast released a new trailer for Kamigawa: Neon ...

Damn it, anime. Is there anything that it doesn’t ruin?! While I might be speaking in jest with that question, ...

You've been in Japan Too Long when... This is a post of the collected list of "You've been in Japan ...

I say this every January, but it isn’t truly the new year until the annual Tokyo Fire Department report comes ...

Think back to your third year of high school… what were you doing with your free time? In my case, ...

I love eating gyoza. It’s actually one of my all-time favorite foods. Therefore, I find myself annoyed they did not ...

After spending years learning the language then living in Japan for 30 years, I can truly say that I love ...

It seems like history's repeating itself. Recently, a draft revision of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's “Comprehensive Plan for the Promotion of ...

If you were to gather 100 people from all over the world, from all ages, and from all walks of ...

I know that headline reads like it’s a joke or a typo, but I swear that the following is a ...

You know, I think we sometimes take for granted how easy it is to access pornography in the west. In ...

How much do you love Nissin cup noodles? I mean, I know how much I love cup noodles (a lot, ...

A new king of the internet cats has been crowned, and he’s a-meow-zing… don’t worry, I’ll see myself out for ...

The Street Fighter franchise has created a multitude of media over the years, with some iterations being more well-received than ...

Nintendo released their CSR report for 2021, recapping company goals and practices being enacted in and outside the company. The ...

Talk about a Friday news dump! As much as I love reporting on anime news here on the J-List Blog, ...

Crime doesn’t pay. Unless it’s manga piracy which pays very well until you get caught and put into prison, which ...

There’s spreading Japanese culture and then there’s whatever this is. Despite a majority of the population not wanting them to ...

One of these days, I’m going to get to travel to Japan and visit the many different cities that I’ve ...

Every year since 1995, the Japanese Kanji Proficiency Society has held a national vote to determine which kanji character best ...

Same-Sex marriage equality has been a quiet topic in Japan, especially for outside audiences. All that is coming to an ...

Recently, J-List's own Peter Payne shared how movie theaters in Japan have sprung back to life after the worst of ...

One of the hardest-hit industries during the shin-gata corona-virus, as COVID-19 is called in Japanese, has been movie theaters, as going ...