Tag: Japanese names

I'm fascinated at how a country can look a certain way when viewed from far away culturally and geographically, then ...

No matter how delicate and beautiful some anime stories might be -- such as Time of Eve, about a coffee ...

A few notes about the new J-List website: remember, subscriptions (both magazine and snacks) are currently off the site but ...

When I came to Japan in 1991, one of my first impressions was that the country must be a dangerous ...

Japan's love of cuteness has become famous all around the world, to the point that the word 可愛い kawaii can ...

Names in Japanese are interesting, so I thought I'd write about how they work. Japanese names are generally written with ...

Names in Japan, of course, are pronounced family name first, so if you meet someone named Yamada Hanako you'll know ...

Names are important things no matter what country you're in, though in Japan they work a little differently than what ...

Google has changed all our lives and added several points to our collective IQs, for which I'm very grateful. If ...

I often think the themes in anime and games must be potentially confusing to some viewers, even when everything is ...

You probably now that J-List has long been involved with translating and selling Japanese visual novels, called eroge or H-games ...

Japanese names are generally written in kanji, and just as there are alternative ways to spell Western names (though I ...

One thing I like about popular culture like anime or manga is the way is the way it can teach ...

One thing I like about learning a foreign language like Japanese is the way it helps you to learn how ...

I write a lot about how Japanese names work, since they're quite different from names in Western languages. Japanese people ...

Just about any aspect of Japan can provide an interesting cultural lesson, even names. In Japan, everyone has a family ...

Have you ever wondered what all those suffixes added to the ends of Japanese names mean? They can be quite ...

Google is an amazing tool that allows us to find information in seconds, and I swear by it. When searching ...

I wrote recently about how Japanese names are (usually) written in kanji, and how there are many possible ways of ...

Japanese names are generally written in kanji, the Chinese characters introduced to Japan around the 6th century A.D. Family names, ...

We certainly had fun in Las Vegas, enjoying some quality down time. On the way back to San Diego, our ...

Names in Japanese are quite different from what we're usually used to in the West. Right off the bat, the ...

Japan is numbly watching the aftermath of the sad events at Virginia Tech as they unfold. Much like Europe, it's ...

Japan can be such a funny place. You could be going along, minding your own business when suddenly, bam, the ...