One Japanese TV show that never fails to please is TV Champion, which pits exceptional people against each other in ...
Living in Japan means adapting to many things, not the least of which is modifying your native language. When I ...
The Japanese are very good at taking outside culture and adapting it to fit their own needs, and they have ...
Chinese New Year is going on right now, and throughout Asia people are celebrating the cultural holiday. Although Japan switched ...
Anyone who's ever worked in a Japanese organization for any length of time probably knows the frustration of having a ...
Japan is numbly watching the aftermath of the sad events at Virginia Tech as they unfold. Much like Europe, it's ...
Hello again from Japan where getting your hair colored is known as a "hair manicure."For some reason, one of the ...
Although the Japanese generally study six years of English (or up to ten if they take it in college), they're ...
Television (which turns 80 today) in Japan can be quite entertaining, and sometimes its fun to sit back on the ...
Last time I mentioned the magic words that may be responsible for much of the wa or harmony that Japan ...
"What is your hobby?" This is one of the first phrases of English conversation that Japanese students learn, along with ...
One concept that's always interested me is joshiki (JOH-sh'kee) the Japanese "universal common sense" or knowledge that all reasonable people ...
There's a minor hullabaloo going on between Japan and Australia right now after the publication of a controversial book on ...
I was making up some Japanese business cards for one of my employees yesterday, trying different layouts and fonts to ...
I've written before about how Japan is a very safe place -- so safe it might just kill you with ...
It was Thomas Paine -- a possible ancestor of mine, although I somehow doubt it -- who uttered the words, ...
You probably know that they do Valentine's Day a little differently in Japan than in the West. Here, Feb. 14th ...
We've been watching the extra-cold winter dumping lots of snow on the U.S. this year and feeling more than a ...
Japan has a reputation for being a peaceful place with very little in the way of violence, giant monsters emerging ...
When a foreigner comes to live in Japan, he or she is in for some changes. I remember my first ...
Slate.com ran an article yesterday on Apple's Japanese iTunes Music Store and how frustrating it was that fans of J-POP ...
The fermented soybeans known as natto (NAT-toh) are one of the most famous foods in Japan, enjoyed throughout the country, ...
The subject of Japan's police is an interesting one. Japan's boys in blue are organized under the umbrella of the ...
People talk about convergence all the time, of things coming together in a more convenient form. Living in Japan, one ...
