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The concept of a "show within a show" exists even in anime and manga. It's when anime actresses and actors ...

Happy Twintail Day! Today, February 2nd, has been designated as #ツインテールの日 or #TwintailDay by the Japan Twintail Association, which is ...

Since anime simulcasts didn’t exist in 2007 (Crunchyroll was still a few years off at this point), I didn’t watch ...

There are a lot of amazing teachers in anime, who would do anything to help their students' education...or at least ...

Father's Day is this Sunday! In addition to being a great reminder that you should call your dad if you're ...

We hope everyone in the United States had a fun and relaxing Fourth of July on Sunday, with fireworks and ...

Every morning I wake up and check the replies in J-List's Twitter feed on my phone, which is a good ...

One of the reasons we love watching anime is that it's filled with characters and situations we can relate to, ...

One thing I love about anime is how it's so easy to connect with it, showing us people, places and ...

What anime has made you laugh the most? For me it was Kaguya: Love is War. I laughed so hard ...

We hope everyone is enjoying the J-List Holiday Sale, which we started early, to give customers more time to receive ...

Sometimes it seems that Japan has been custom-made to surprise us all, and I'm not just talking about the Cheeseburger ...

One theme I write about often is the Japanese idea of 常識 joshiki, translatable as the knowledge that every (Japanese) ...

Life is a little more fun when you know some Japanese, whether it's to communicate with nihonjin who can't use ...

The other day I was driving in my Mazda Miata (which is called a Roadster here in Japan, though for ...

The other day I caught a CNN blog post about the term otaku, and whether it was a positive or ...

It's often said the Japanese are the most polite people on Earth, and this is generally a Good Thing. When ...

Anime, of course, is rife with fun memes that have emerged over the years, passed from creators to fans and ...

It's well known that Japan's birthrate is among the lowest in the industrialized world, standing at just 1.29 per female. ...

Yesterday I went to my local DMV to renew my Japanese driver's license. Back in the "good old days" there ...

One useful way of understanding Japan as a whole is using the idea of kata, a word that can mean ...

I like to write about my impressions of the Japanese language and how it differs from English, since language is ...

Valentine's Day is an important day in Japan, a time for couples to show their affection through the medium of ...

There are some interesting things to be found on Japanese TV, like a show in which a comedian goes into ...