Tag: kids

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

Fall is my favorite time of year in Japan. The weather is nearly always pleasant, and there's nothing like going ...

I often write about Japan's falling birth rate since it's one of the more visible challenges the country is facing ...

It's fun to study random bits of Japanese culture, like the way children who want the weather to be good ...

Japanese TV never fails to entertain, or to provide me with good neta, a word which means the fish part ...

Over the weekend we got a new car, a Mazda CX-5. It's a fun and sporty small SUV that seemed ...

J-List has a popular Facebook page as well as a Twitter feed, and I sometimes like to throw out questions ...

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

The roles of men and women in Japan can be quite different from in the West, for example the general ...

There are many differences between Japan and the U.S., and some of them can be downright hard to reconcile. When ...

Although I love living in Japan, I'm happy that I'm not there now. The reason is that Japan has entered ...

It's well known that the Japanese eat with chopsticks, and any dish featuring rice, noodles, fish etc. will generally be ...

Sunday is Mother's Day, a day to do something nice for that very special mom in your life. It's also ...

One of the more enjoyable aspects of watching anime in the 21st century is seichi junrei or "making a pilgrimage ...

Back in the early days of the web and Usenet, foreigners living in Japan started a list called "You've been ...

My Japanese wife and I have given a special gift to our children, making sure they grew up bilingual in ...

You never know what random Japan-related thing will become popular on the Internet next. One day it'll be a TV ...

Happy New Year, or as Japanese young people say these days, ake-ome! which is short for akemashite omedetou gozaimasu or ...

There are some fundamental differences between Japan and the U.S. which I like to explore from time to time. The ...

Exam season is nearing for my children, and they both spent several hours this weekend studying for the tests that ...

One of the best things about raising kids in Japan is shichi-go-san (literally "7, 5, 3"), a special time when ...

One thing I love about the Japanese people is their deep passion for their children, something I've observed firsthand as ...

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

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