Tag: japanese culture

The Academy Awards ceremony is closely followed in Japan, where it's kind of a combination of the Kohaku Red-and-White music ...

A week or so ago, a bizarre-looking deep-sea fish called Ryugu-no-Tsukai, which Wikipedia tells me is "oarfish" in English, started ...

One way of making sense of Japan is through the concept of kata, a word which means "form" and which ...

I love running a unique company like J-List, really I do, but there are certain frustrations that come with being ...

Going back to the U.S. is always a treat: I get to load up on foods that I can't get ...

I happened to see a report that put Japan's gross domestic product per capita -- the amount of goods and ...

Today is a holiday in Japan, Seijin-no-hi, or Coming of Age Day, when everyone who turns 20 years old this ...

One interesting difference between Japan and the West is the use of hanko, or name stamps, when indicating approval on ...

Living in a place as homogeneous as Japan brings out some interesting psychoses in people, and one could fill a ...

Over the summer I had a lot of fun taking my son to Hakodate, the city on the southern tip ...

For whaever reason, Japanese toilets seem to hold a special fascination for us gajin. Whether it's the convenience of toilet ...

A nation is defined by several factors, including language, geography and politics, but also by its shared mythology. In America ...

In the movie Tron, there's a great scene where you see this sea of cubicles going on forever, an extremely ...

It's funny how how tenuous the meanings of seemingly basic words can be. In English, the word "friend" is pretty ...

Do you know the Japanese Pinky Promise? It's a similar to the "Make a promise/Hope to die/Stick a needle in ...