Tag: Japanese language

Hello from Japan, where some English words don't always mean what you think they mean -- for example, a "manicure" ...

Hello again from a very hot Japan! The J-List server change went pretty well. There was a bit of a ...

Hello again from all of us in Japan! One complex topic is the role of women in Japan, and how ...

Hello and TGIF from your friends in Japan! Japan is currently in shock over the murder of four-year-old Shun Tanemoto ...

Hello again from Japan, where it's good manners to turn your car's headlights off while waiting at a red light ...

Hello again from all of us in Japan! If you're going to travel to Japan, you'd better bring your suitscase, ...

Hello again from your friends in Japan, where the phrase "Not by the hair of my Chinny Chin Chin" means ...

Hi again from Japan, where you bow to drivers when they give you the right of way (and I do ...

Greetings from Japan, where it's not polite to stick your chopsticks straight up in your rice (only dead people do ...

Hello and TGIF from your friends in Japan! One thing that's often a shock to outgoing, cheerful Westerners is the ...

Hello again from Japan, home of the world's only indoor skiing facility -- the Ssaws ski slope near Tokyo Disneyland, ...

Hello again from all of us in Japan! The word for foreigner in Japanese is "gaijin," written using the characters ...

Hello again from all your friends in Japan! Happy faces in email are now a part of Internet culture. The ...

Hello again from Japan, where "UFO" and "VIP" are pronounced as words, not spelled out (e.g." you-foh" and "vipp"). All ...

Hello again from Japan, the home of strawberry and butter sandwiches! There are some words that the Japanese are doomed ...

Hello again from Japan, where a popular dessert is "coffee jelly" (coffee flavored gelatin), one of my personal favorites. Languages ...

Hello again from Japan, where the "@" mark in email address is called "at-mark." Because English has been taught in ...

Holiday greetings from J-List! It's Christmas Eve, and we're set to have a great Christmas, as we've hopped across the ...

Hello again from Japan, the only country in the world that would make vegetable yogurt (it was billed as a ...

Hello again from your friends in Japan at J-List! The Japanese are very big on their four seasons, and have ...

Greeting from all your friends in Japan! All modern languages contain confusing and archaic elements of past languages, English not ...

Hello from Japan, the home of "rinse in shampoo." It's well known that famous actors from America and Europe appear ...

Greetings, programs, from all of us in Japan! There's a wacky thing that Japanese do to money: fold a 1000 ...

Hello again from Japan! Well, the Autumn Sumo tournament is over, and Hawaiian wrestler Musashimaru has won. He defeated the ...