Tag: Japan

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 ...

Over the last couple of decades, Saitama prefecture has made a strong play towards becoming the new otaku mecca. Their ...

I recently traveled from Portugal (where I'm from) back to my home in Japan. I was amazed at how many ...

Originally from Canada, Maydaysan is an English teacher who has seen a steady rise in Internet popularity amount gaijin bloggers ...

Some unwelcome news has come to J-List from the Japanese postal service: Japan Post is halting Airmail and EMS shipping ...

No matter where you look online these days, everyone is talking about COVID-19. Not only that, but it seems like ...

THIS is the content that I live for writing about on a daily basis! A few days ago, the entertainment ...

After the previous article which highlighted Japan's use of money, we're examining more contemporary cultural differences. This time we're looking ...

I wanted to highlight a few Japanese practices that stand out when compared to those in my home country. Living ...

Welcome to your guide to otaku shopping in Japan. Now, I know what you’re thinking! If you live in Japan ...

Let me set the scene. I come from a little-known country on the tip of Africa aptly named South Africa. ...

When I first moved to Japan there was a lot on my mind, since I didn't know much Japanese. I ...

In Niigata prefecture, in central Japan, is the Kokujo-ji Temple, one of the oldest Buddhist establishments in the entire country. ...

(c) Photographer Joona Kotilainen Add ‘knitting while listening to heavy metal music’ to the list of things that Japan apparently ...

One interesting aspect of living in Japan is finding yourself interacting with other foreign residents here, who may come from ...

For those not familiar with Ichiban Kuji (一番 くじ), or "number one lottery" games, they're a staple of Japanese convenience stores. ...

The internet is always full of surprises and recently a new trend has taken the Japanese side of the internet ...