Tag: kids

It's interesting to look at some of the less famous Japanese companies that have nevertheless managed to find success around ...

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

The decades after WWII have seen some successful American businesses establish themselves in Japan, including Coca-Cola, Toys R Us and ...

Every once in a while Japan does something that makes you stop and say, "wait, what?" Like when they advertised ...

January marks the start of 受験シーズン (juken season), when thousands of Japanese high school students take the most important tests ...

One thing everyone knows about the Japanese people is that they use chopsticks to eat with. It's true: except for ...

My kids are haafu, half Japanese and half American, and my wife and I have done our best to ensure ...

The other day I watched the movie Psycho for the first time. The reason was that Tomo, the Japanese staffer ...

The other day my daughter asked me if I'd mind taking her to the Studio Ghibli museum in Mitaka, Tokyo, ...

There are some things you say when you live in Japan that you'd certainly never utter back home. For example, ...

The Japanese are masters when it comes to committing information to memory, like the man who memorized pi to 100,000 ...

Although Japan has no historical connection to the American (actually Scottish) tradition of Halloween, there's been more and more attention ...

Over the weekend I went to my son's high school to attend his last 文化祭 bunka-sai or culture festival, since ...

Anime is filled with fun tropes and memes. One that comes up in romantic comedy series is the 間接キス kansetsu ...

Food can be an important bridge between cultures, something Yasu and I are certainly learning here in the American South. ...

When you're married to a Japanese woman you should be prepared to hear some surprising observations every once in a ...

My wife and I naturally wanted to raise our two kids to be bilingual in English and Japanese. I always ...

It can be fun to try and trace the origins of anime-related memes. For example, if you use the phrase ...

I was hearing good things about the new anime Kiniro Mosaic (Gold Colored Mosaic), so I thought I'd give it ...

Japan is a great country, with a lot to offer both short-term visitors and tourists as well as people like ...

I've heard that it's impossible to live in a country unless you truly enjoy the food there, and it's certainly ...

I happened to see an article that officially declared anime and manga to be good ways of learning a foreign ...

I went to Japan in 1991, happy to finally put all the Japanese I'd studied at SDSU to some use ...

One of the stated goals of Prime Minister Abe's "Abenomics" is to make sweeping changes that empower Japan's women to ...