Tag: Life in Japan

It's funny how a language reflects the people who speak it, and vice versa. Much of famously nuance-filled indirectness of ...

Hello and Happy Friday from all of us in Japan!Japan is truly the home of the "boom" -- every year, ...

Hello and Happy Monday from your friends in Japan!It is interesting to observe the differences between Japan and the U.S. ...

Hello and Happy Friday from all of us in Japan!One of the coolest "needless items" that can be found Japan ...

Hello again from all your friends at J-List. Today is Friday, which is usually the day I take my kids ...

Hello again from Japan, where it's considered good manners to turn your car's headlights off at stoplights (to avoid blinding ...

First of all, we had some server problems for the past days, which made the product images fail to appear ...

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

Hello again from Japan, where you can find "goma ice" -- that's sesame seed flavored ice cream to you and ...

Hello, where in children's games like Hide and Seek or Tag, the person who is "it" is referred to as ...

Greetings from Japan, where a turn signal on a car is known as a "winker." We woke up to a ...

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

Greetings again from all of us in Japan! First of all, J-List updated or mail server software over the weekend, ...

Hello and guten tag from Germany! The convention is over, and as usual, we are dog-tired after hours and hours ...

Hello from a very wintery J-List. For the third time this month, the Kanto region of Japan (where Tokyo is) ...

Merry Christmas! Christmas isn't for another month, but today was our "uso no kurisumasu" (fake Christmas), since this was the ...

Hello from Japan, on this Monday morning. I'm posting the update a few hours early today, as I'm off to ...

Greetings from Japan, the country with the highest per capita number of vending machines in the world! (I think it's ...

Hello again from Japan. We got our first taste of really cold weather, so we knew it was time to ...

Another week is speeding by, as we continue our fast-paced life in Japan. Can you believe we'll be done with ...

Having a nice Wednesday? I am tired out from all the events in the week so far. Yesterday I had ...

Good evening. We've got a big update for you today, with lots of great issues of Big 4, Endless and ...