Tag: Learning Japanese

Hello and TGIF from your friends in Japan! Japan is currently in shock over the murder of four-year-old Shun Tanemoto ...

Hello again from Japan, where it's good manners to turn your car's headlights off while waiting at a red light ...

Hello from Japan, where the restaurant chain Coco's bills itself as "The California Restaurant." There's a famous face game that ...

Hello from Japan, where it's okay to slurp your soba noodles, but not your spaghetti. Today's update is a day ...

Hello from Japan, the home to the famous "cream powder" for your coffee called Creap. When learning Japanese, it's always ...

Greetings from Japan, where tako salad always contains fresh octopus ("tako" being the Japanese word for octopus). Japan is a ...

Hello and TGIF from your friends in Japan! One thing that's often a shock to outgoing, cheerful Westerners is the ...

Hello again from all your friends in Japan! Happy faces in email are now a part of Internet culture. The ...

Hello again from Japan, where "UFO" and "VIP" are pronounced as words, not spelled out (e.g." you-foh" and "vipp"). All ...

Hello again from Japan, the home of strawberry and butter sandwiches! There are some words that the Japanese are doomed ...

Hello from a somewhat nerve-wracked J-List. Wildfires are raging across several parts of San Diego, and unfortunately, the area of ...

Hello again from Japan, where the Sapporo Beverage Company has just released a beer with added fiber (for people who ...

Hello again from San Diego. I head back to Japan tomorrow, but I'm outside in my backyard, enjoying the warm ...

Hello and TGIF from Japan, where the Adam's Apple (the little bulb in your throat) is known as "nodo-chinko" which ...

Hello again from Japan! Well, the Autumn Sumo tournament is over, and Hawaiian wrestler Musashimaru has won. He defeated the ...

Greetings from Japan, home of the original canned coffee (first canned in 1969 by the Ueshima Coffee Company of Kobe, ...

Hello again from San Diego! Unfortunately my little sojourn to the U.S. is at an end, and I must go ...

Hello again from all of us in Japan! The Japanese do many things that perplex the gaijin who live here. ...

Hello again from all of us at J-List! With all that's different between Japan and the West, you can bet ...

Hello and TGIF from all of us in Japan! One thing I've learned from my years in Japan is that ...

Hello and TGIF from Japan! I often look back on my years of teaching English as a Second Language to ...

Hello again from your friends in Japan! Now that Harry Potter-mania has died down, it's time for Lord of the ...

Greetings from Japan. I am especially refreshed today, as I took the family on a trip to the town of ...

Hello from Japan on a bright and sunny Saturday. In Japanese, words are made from kanji, the Chinese characters that ...