Tag: manga

In my city there are these metal signs posted at random places with the collected wisdom of our local PTA ...

Unlike countries like Saudi Arabia, Canada or the United States, Japan has almost nothing in the way of natural resources, ...

One interesting subject when thinking about Japan is the role of 国際結婚 kokusai kekkon, or international marriage, on society here. ...

Over the weekend I took a business trip to the best place you can take a business trip to, Kyoto. ...

Greetings from Japan! I'm off to Kyoto and Osaka on a business trip, but while I'm gone the hardworking J-List ...

Japan's love of cuteness has become famous all around the world, to the point that the word 可愛い kawaii can ...

moe culture, and connecting with anime through food. Last weekend was Comic Market, aka Comiket , the huge doujinshi convention ...

Japan is having its "Obon" Buddhist holidays right now, a solemn time when the spirits of deceased family members are ...

One of my hobbies over the years has been making observations about Japanese females, based on students I taught, several ...

I've made the 11-hour flight from California back to Japan, the land of onsen hot springs and toilets that wash ...

Japanese homes are quite different from homes in the West. For example, there's always a low area by the front ...

I'm often asked what Japanese fans think of the global explosion in the popularity of anime, manga and Japanese games. ...

I'm taking another brief vacation, this time journeying to the sunny state of Florida, USA, with my daughter. In addition ...

I finally found time to go see the new Godzilla movie that everyone was buzzing about a month or so ...

Watching anime means opening yourself up to cultural aspects of Japan that are unfamiliar to most of us, such as ...

The name of Japan in its own language is 日本, pronounced either nihon or nippon, alternate readings of kanji characters ...

Japan's "anime" industry, of course, is part of a complex network of companies in related but separate industries, all working ...

I'm a fan of otaku culture, both inside Japan and around the world, because it gives anyone who's a fan ...

Google has radically changed the way we get information, and if you have a question about something -- say, about ...

According to the Internet, May is National Onahole Month, a time to treat yourself to some stress relief, so we ...

I've started watching another new anime, called One Week Friends. It's the ridiculously cute story of a boy named Yuki ...

Like many, I'm a big fan of bento, those convenient and delicious Japanese boxed lunches. Said to have evolved from ...

A couple days ago Canadian singer Avril Lavigne released a video for her "Hello Kitty" single, which received flak from ...

When anime and manga creators go to make a new character, they have a lot of basic personality types to ...