Tag: K-ON

It's certainly a nice time for my son and me to be outside of Japan, which is sweltering with summer ...

One thing you have to know about the Japanese people: they really love rice. The Japanese eat it with most ...

Tomorrow marks the start of Golden Week, a cluster of Japanese holidays that usually fall near each other. In theory, ...

March is graduation season in Japan, a time for making tearful farewells to your classmates as you wait through a ...

I like to use Twitter (and Facebook, and Google+) to keep up with our customers and send random links about ...

Is it possible to understand the Japanese through the relationship they have to their feet? Let's give it a try. ...

All languages make use of onomatopoeia, words that are derived from the way they sound such as quack, snap, zip ...

Another big part of the year-end festivities for many is attending Comic Market, the sprawling doujinshi event held in Tokyo ...

This past weekend saw the "roadshow" -- what a movie release is called in Japan, from an old movie distribution ...

I saw an interesting thread on Japan's ubiquitous BBS 2ch entitled, "Things Japanese people do abroad that mark them as ...

I write often about Japan's love for kawaii (cute) culture, which has come to define the country as much as ...

One word that's become quite well-known in anime- and Japan-centric circles is kawaii, which means cute, pretty, adorable, and in ...

The other day I was driving in my Mazda Miata (which is called a Roadster here in Japan, though for ...

Today is Halloween, a day for wearing ghoulish costumes and having lots of scary fun. Although you can see plenty ...

Anime has certainly changed a lot since 1979, when I encountered Star Blazers/Space Battleship Yamato, the first animated series from ...

One nice thing about living in Japan is the rail culture here, so very different from the freeway- and automobile-based ...

The other day I was riding my bicycle past a steakhouse, and I noticed a sign that promised "Steak & ...

And now for a few random things I've learned since starting my Twitter feed, which allows me to interact with ...

The Summer of 2011 has begun in ernest, and it's definitely going to be a dicey one for Japan. The ...

Summer has come to Japan, which means doing fun things like attending festivals, shooting off fireworks with the kids, drinking ...

One theme I write about often is the way Japanese have a positive, happy view of English. In part this ...

Although you probably don't think of the Japanese as overweight, the problem is expanding waistlines is affecting people here, too. ...

I started watching the new anime MoshiDora, also known as Moshi Nihon no Joshi Manager ga Drucker no 'Management' o ...

Here's a little observation I've made: when something gets "too" popular, it will peak then rapidly lose popularity for a ...