Tag: K-ON

June 9th marks another fun, informal Japanese holiday. Known as Rock (n’ Roll) Day (Rokku no Hi), it comes from ...

Japanese anime seiyuu work long hours and probably don't have much time to meet people outside their industry. So it's ...

One thing I love about being an anime otaku is the way it seems to make fans happier than they ...

One thing I hear from a lot of J-List customers is that anime can have a positive influence on their ...

You can't live in a country if you don't like the food, and one reason I've been happy living in ...

I'm a fan of The Great Courses college courses and listen to a lot of them in the shower with a ...

There are some interesting features about the Japanese people that I've observed over the years. Their built-in humility: try to give ...

The lovable Azusa Nakano from K-ON! is receiving a life-size figure which is soon to be released for her birthday. ...

If America is famous for "baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and Chevrolet" (as one TV commercial back in the day ...

Although Japan likes to pretend it's a modern Western-style nation with institutions built in close imitation of those of Europe, ...

Yesterday I headed down to Tokyo with my wife to attend my son's university entrance ceremony, a very proud day ...

Yesterday was the graduation ceremony for my son, a very proud day for any parent. The Japanese are big fans ...

Today is 節分 Setsubun, a fun day for anyone with small kids in Japan. A remnant of the old Lunar ...

The film version of Ender's Game -- or as the Japanese call it, Ender no Game -- finally opened in ...

I've been blogging about Japan since 1998 -- actually a bit before then, but I officially trace my start as ...

One good thing about living in Japan is that it's a very safe country where you're unlikely to meet with ...

We hope everyone in the U.S. enjoyed a warm and pleasant Thanksgiving with family and friends. It's not a holiday ...

Last weekend I was casting around for something to do, so I decided to hit an onsen (pronounced "own-sen"), the ...

Sometimes part of the fun of studying a language like Japanese is "surfing" the linguistic elements that are different from ...

Although I dislike the oppressive heat and humidity of summer in Japan, I'm a big fan of Japanese summer festivals, ...

The poor staff of J-List is sweating in Japan this summer as temperatures climb above 40°C/104°F, with correspondingly yucky humidity. ...

Today marks the second anniversary of the terrible magnitude 9 earthquake that struck northern Japan and triggered deadly tsunamis, transforming ...

Before I started J-List in 1996, I had a brief career as a public employee, working in the local City ...

It's funny how wrong perceptions of other countries and languages can sometimes be, like the time I was asked if ...