Tag: kids

Japan has entered its rainy season, a month-long period when it will rain most every day as the country does ...

Manga is the name given to Japanese comic books, although most people over the age of 35 or so will ...

It's time for another installment of Wacky Japanese You Already Know, featuring Japanese words that happen to be homophones with ...

When you study a language like Japanese, you learn many rules that make up the grammar, like the unique particles ...

I write often about how harmonious Japan appears to foreigners living here. Seen from our special position as outsiders (which ...

World War II officially ended 63 years ago with the surrender of Japan, but the legacy of the war isn't ...

There was a bizarre Japanese TV show that was on a few years back called OH! Mikey, in which an ...

The question of "What makes the Japanese the way they are?" is an interesting one, and I'm certainly not the ...

Being a healthy male, I'm naturally fascinated with the opposite sex, and I find the subject of Japanese females to ...

Sushi is the delicious raw fish on rice eaten in Japan, and it's so popular here that we have to ...

I took the kids out for ramen last night, and while we were waiting for our gyoza dumplings to be ...

My family is going through our annual "what are we going to do about summer?" decision-making process, trying to make ...

My wife is having a challenging time right now. Our daughter starts the sixth grade in April, and by unwritten ...

Like most other expats living in Japan, I've got a special relationship with...McDonald's. Back when I was getting used to ...

There are many good things about living in Japan. For one thing, it's a world of potentially endless mystery, where ...

It's funny how different senses can bring out different memories. With Easter approaching, my mother sent us a care package ...

Hayao Miyazaki is the animator and director that's brought so many wonderful films to the world, from Totoro to Kiki's ...

When you live in a country that's as different from the U.S. as Japan is, it's interesting to observe the ...

Part of Peter's Unified Theory of Japan is that America is a country of idealists while Japanese are generally pragmatists. ...

In the U.S., "back to school" season is in August, when parents prepare for the start of the new school ...

The Japanese, of course, use chopsticks at almost every meal, whether they're eating rice, noodles, fish or meat. (Certain foods ...

Just as many in the U.S. and Europe have a fascination with all things Japanesque, the Japanese have their own ...

Before I started J-List, I taught English as a Second Language (ESL) to a wide range of Japanese students, including ...

I wrote last time about how living in Japan puts you in tune with the system of senpai and kohai, ...