Tag: Life in Japan

Many English speakers know the Japanese word wa, which means harmony and peace, and it's not rare to hear someone ...

The U.S. is in "election mode" right now, so I thought I'd compare politics between America and Japan a bit. ...

Japan's birthrate is among the lowest in the industrialized world, with around 1.27 babies born per female compared with 1.39, ...

The other day I caught an in-depth Japanese news show on the economic crisis in Spain, which was interesting because ...

After several years of intense negotiations, the ruling Democratic Party of Japan was able to push through a bill that ...

Running an international anime company for the past 16 years has been interesting, and I've learned a lot about both ...

Hello again, this time from Boston. My son and I have completed our East Coast tour and are heading back ...

Some changes are coming for foreigners living in Japan, which will be welcome indeed. Gaijin -- the word literally means ...

I like living in Japan a lot, but one aspect of my adopted country I'm not a fan of is ...

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

There's no way around it: alcohol is often an important part of social life in Japan, and there's even a ...

Recently J-List hired a new Japanese employee to oversee the shipping of packages, and on her first day the entire ...

One of the more refreshing aspects of life in Japan is the lack of lawyers and lawsuits as a major ...

Last time I mentioned the words uchi and soto, meaning in-group and out-group, which is a favorite topic of Japan ...

If you've watched more than an hour of Japanese television, you'll know that school uniforms are a big part of ...

One of the more enjoyable aspects of getting used to life in Japan, at least coming from California, is the ...

The Japanese are a very seasonal people, fond of doing different activities in each season, some of which are quite ...

I've written before about how one of the more pleasant aspects of living in Japan is that people tend to ...

Some good news for foreigners living in Japan: a new Alien Registration System is coming which will make it easier ...

There's no doubt about it: living in a foreign country for many years will change a person, something my father ...

One of the most important concepts in daily life in Japan is shin'yo (SHIN-yo), which means "trust," and when Japanese ...

Coming to a very seasonal country like Japan from San Diego, a city whose two seasons are "nice" and "slightly ...

Fire is a constant problem in Japan, a country taken with building houses of wood and paper then heating them ...

Japan is well known as one of the most aged societies on the planet, with an amazing 22% of the ...