Greetings from J-List September 22, 2003
Hello again from Japan, the country with car names like the Suzuki Joypop and the Daihatsu Nude. One thing about ...
Tag: Japanese language
Greetings from J-List September 15, 2003
Hello from Japan, where some English words don't always mean what you think they mean -- for example, a "manicure" ...
Greetings from J-List July 30, 2003
Hello again from a very hot Japan! The J-List server change went pretty well. There was a bit of a ...
Greetings from J-List July 28, 2003
Hello again from all of us in Japan! One complex topic is the role of women in Japan, and how ...
Greetings from J-List July 11, 2003
Hello and TGIF from your friends in Japan! Japan is currently in shock over the murder of four-year-old Shun Tanemoto ...
Greetings from J-List June 16, 2003
Hello again from Japan, where it's good manners to turn your car's headlights off while waiting at a red light ...
Greetings from J-List June 9, 2003
Hello again from all of us in Japan! If you're going to travel to Japan, you'd better bring your suitscase, ...
Greetings from J-List June 6, 2003
Hello again from your friends in Japan, where the phrase "Not by the hair of my Chinny Chin Chin" means ...
Greetings from J-List May 7, 2003
Hi again from Japan, where you bow to drivers when they give you the right of way (and I do ...
Greetings from J-List April 25, 2003
Greetings from Japan, where it's not polite to stick your chopsticks straight up in your rice (only dead people do ...
Greetings from J-List April 11, 2003
Hello and TGIF from your friends in Japan! One thing that's often a shock to outgoing, cheerful Westerners is the ...
Greetings from J-List March 17, 2003
Hello again from Japan, home of the world's only indoor skiing facility -- the Ssaws ski slope near Tokyo Disneyland, ...
Greetings from J-List February 7, 2003
Hello again from all of us in Japan! The word for foreigner in Japanese is "gaijin," written using the characters ...
Greetings from J-List February 5, 2003
Hello again from all your friends in Japan! Happy faces in email are now a part of Internet culture. The ...
Greetings from J-List February 3, 2003
Hello again from Japan, where "UFO" and "VIP" are pronounced as words, not spelled out (e.g." you-foh" and "vipp"). All ...
Greetings from J-List January 27, 2003
Hello again from Japan, the home of strawberry and butter sandwiches! There are some words that the Japanese are doomed ...
Greetings from J-List October 20, 2003
Hello again from Japan, where a popular dessert is "coffee jelly" (coffee flavored gelatin), one of my personal favorites. Languages ...
Greetings from J-List October 17, 2003
Hello again from Japan, where the "@" mark in email address is called "at-mark." Because English has been taught in ...
Greetings from J-List December 24, 2002
Holiday greetings from J-List! It's Christmas Eve, and we're set to have a great Christmas, as we've hopped across the ...
Greetings from J-List December 16, 2002
Hello again from Japan, the only country in the world that would make vegetable yogurt (it was billed as a ...
Greetings from J-List December 2, 2002
Hello again from your friends in Japan at J-List! The Japanese are very big on their four seasons, and have ...
Greetings from J-List November 13, 2002
Greeting from all your friends in Japan! All modern languages contain confusing and archaic elements of past languages, English not ...
Greetings from J-List November 6, 2002
Hello from Japan, the home of "rinse in shampoo." It's well known that famous actors from America and Europe appear ...
Greetings from J-List September 25, 2002
Greetings, programs, from all of us in Japan! There's a wacky thing that Japanese do to money: fold a 1000 ...
