Tag: Japan

The other day I reached for some saltine crackers and found myself smirking at the name on the package: Mornin' ...

You probably know that the Japanese have an extensive custom of bowing as a greeting or to show thanks or ...

You never know what's going to get popular in Japan next: maybe horn-rimmed glasses will suddenly come back into vogue, ...

I know I write about toilets in Japan quite often. For some reason, there's a lot of interesting culture to ...

Today is Inventory Day here at J-List, when we have to count the many thousands of excellent products we stock. ...

History has been made in the Sumo Wrestling world with the victory of Bulgarian wrestler Kotooshu (koh-toh-OH-shu), the first time ...

In Japan, there are often concepts that are difficult for Westerners to grasp. One measurement of beauty here is related ...

I write often about how harmonious Japan appears to foreigners living here. Seen from our special position as outsiders (which ...

An interesting aspect of Japanese polite grammar is the honorific "o" that goes in front of some words to give ...

There was a bizarre Japanese TV show that was on a few years back called OH! Mikey, in which an ...

Japan is one of the most earthquake-prone countries in the world, a fact that I was reminded of on Thursday ...

Wherever you're from in the world. there's a good chance that your blood contains contributions from different national groups -- ...

You probably don't think of soybeans as being vital to culture, but in Japan, the lowly soybean is the most ...

The subject of religion in Japan is a complex one. The two main religious traditions here are Buddhism, which was ...

Although it'd be a stretch to call a homogeneous country like Japan a "melting pot," modern Japanese society does represent ...

Who's your daddy? While Japan as a society is very much a meritocracy, with success largely going to those who ...

Living in Japan has certainly made me a more considerate person, and I generally thinks of others before acting on ...

When you live in a country that's as different from the U.S. as Japan is, it's interesting to observe the ...

Last time I talked about some of the interesting discussions I've seen on Japanese TV shows, even about subjects that ...

The Japanese have a long history with robots, going all the way back to karakuri ningyo, mechanical dolls that mimic ...

It's interesting to watch the evolution of the various female role models in Japan over the years. Everyone has actors, ...

Japan has really changed for the better over the past decade and a half in terms of how easy it ...

The Japanese, of course, use chopsticks at almost every meal, whether they're eating rice, noodles, fish or meat. (Certain foods ...

Over the weekend I took my son out for a bowl of gyudon, steamed beef over rice, the most popular ...