Tag: kids

We interrupt this J-List update to bring you...a giant Earthquake! The 8.9 magnitude quake that hit around Sendai shook the ...

Japan's masukomi -- what the news media is called here, from "mass communications" -- loves attaching labels to budding social ...

One of the great things about having kids is, you get to watch them at various stages as they grow ...

Raising children in Japan has certainly been an interesting experience for me, and I've passed through many different phases along ...

The most common word for "foreigner" in Japanese is gaijin, a term that's used to describe Westerners who are obviously ...

I write often about how vague and imprecise the Japanese language can be, and how easy it is for foreigners ...

As with any language, Japanese has certain weirdness built into it. There are, of course, words for occupations which have ...

Tomorrow is Setsubun, a fun day for anyone with small kids in Japan. Originally falling on New Year's Eve of ...

Right now it's juken (test) season in Japan, when hundreds of thousands of students take the entrance exams they've spent ...

Japan is a culture obsessed with benkyo (studying) as a tool for creating a fair, merit-based society that encourages had ...

Like most parents in Japan, I closely followed the interests of my kids as they were growing up. When my ...

We all have fond memories of childhood which make us natsukashii, a word that roughly means "that makes me so ...

Christmas is upon us, and soon the children will be nestled all snug in their beds, while visions of sugar-plums ...

My son is in hardcore study mode right now as he prepares for his important high school entrance exam in ...

One of my favorite weekend activities is hitting an onsen, or hot springs bath, and I'm fortunate that J-List is ...

I wrote last time about how names work in Japanese, and how it can be fun to assign kanji to ...

The rapid changes brought by the Internet have forced just about every industry to adapt. Anime is no different, and ...

Harry Potter fans are going wild over the new film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I, which opened ...

A lot of people talk about increasing the population of Japan, but J-List is doing something about it. The newest ...

November 11 has been designated by "Pocky Day" by the Glico corporation, due to the fact that 11/11 looks like ...

I love Japanese public baths (sento) and hot springs (onsen, pronounced "own-sen"), and have gone with my kids for years. ...

Living in Japan teaches you many things. You learn to park your car in impossibly small spaces, and increase your ...

Over the weekend I went to my daughter's bunka-sai or school culture festival. Anyone who's watched more than a few ...

Japan is unique among industrialized nations in that the concept of tipping never caught on, and is in fact about ...