Tag: manga

The election in the U.S. is finally over, and I'm sure everyone is happy to have it behind them. Unfortunately ...

Google has changed all our lives and added several points to our collective IQs, for which I'm very grateful. If ...

I often write about Japan's falling birth rate since it's one of the more visible challenges the country is facing ...

It can be interesting to analyze the themes used in the creation of characters for anime and manga: the fiery ...

The Japanese are fond of designating certain days to commemorate random things, and every time I get in my car ...

Perceptions are always fun to explore. The other day I made a lunch date with Mrs. J-List at a nice ...

Today's interesting word of Japanese is guuzen (goo-zen), which means "coincidence." I don't know why, but there seems to be ...

Speaking of cats, I've written before about how much the Japanese love them, regularly turning the furry felines into "Internet ...

Well, the San Diego Comic-Con is over for another year, the banners and booths all taken down. After all the ...

Wednesday marked Independence Day in the U.S., and since Anime Expo was kind enough to end before the holiday this ...

One of the more surprising aspects of Japanese popular culture is the number of stories featuring characters of questionable gender, ...

Today is Geek Pride Day, a special day for all of us to celebrate the nerdier side of life, from ...

Although I do my best to be a gentleman, there are times when I've inadvertantly been less than chivalrous to ...

Japan is a country with no guns at all...or so I thought when I arrived here in 1991, and learned ...

The Japanese language has three writing systems to communicate the written word: hiragana, the syllable-based system used for expressing basic ...

One thing I've learned about the Japanese is, they love it when one of their number attains international fame. From ...

I'm done with my little vacation to Australia, which was loads of fun. Australia is certainly an easy place to ...

The word otaku has come to represent fans of anime, manga and 2D gaming culture, but the word is a ...

Over the weekend I went down to Tokyo to meet with some friends and have Osaka-style kushi-katsu, which is meat ...

Recently I wrote about place names around the world that are famous here because they sound funny in Japanese, the ...

There are some pretty hilarious place names in the world, like Hell, Michigan, Hookersville, West Virginia or Lord Berkeley's Knob, ...

We recently bought dot matrix printer, of all things, which is needed to automate shipping of EMS orders (the forms ...

I often write about the kokumin-sei or "national character" of the Japanese. By and large they're a harmonious people, preferring ...

Because of the popularity of anime and manga, certain aspects of Japan's popular culture have spread across the globe, and ...