Anime and comic books -- which are collectively referred with the term "manga" in Japanese -- are an inseparable part ...
Urban legends are funny things, sometimes leading millions of people to believe something that just isn't true. When Gerber started ...
Living in Japan means adapting to many things, not the least of which is modifying your native language. When I ...
If you want to get married on the cheap in Japan, I suggest you do it on Butsumetsu ("Buddha's Death"), ...
No study of pop Japanology can be complete without exploring the twin concepts of giri and ninjo (義理と人情）, which crop ...
Hello again from Japan, where the zipper in your pants is known as the "window of society" (shakai no mado).As ...
The Torino Olympics have been going on for two weeks, and Japanese fans have been eagerly watching all the events ...
Japan takes its baseball seriously, and right now the whole country is closely watching Daisuke Matsuzaka as he starts his ...
Words always reflect the people that use them, and vice-versa. In American English our notions about individualism and not going ...
Japan is a very seasonal place, with specific things done only during the appropriate times of year. August is when ...
I was making up some Japanese business cards for one of my employees yesterday, trying different layouts and fonts to ...
You probably know that they do Valentine's Day a little differently in Japan than in the West. Here, Feb. 14th ...
It's funny how culture criss-crosses the globe, never stopping at such laughable things as national borders as it flows to ...
I sometimes find myself thinking back to my college days when I first started learning Japanese, and it never fails ...
When a foreigner comes to live in Japan, he or she is in for some changes. I remember my first ...
People talk about convergence all the time, of things coming together in a more convenient form. Living in Japan, one ...
I'll never forget the moment. In my first year of SDSU, my family got a Japanese homestay student who stayed ...
Today is a holiday in Japan, Seijin-no-hi, or Coming of Age Day. Venture into any Japanese city right now and ...
By and large, an American expat living in Japan has two choices when it comes to celebrating Thanksgiving: completely forget ...
Just as Americans are accustomed to thinking of our country as a union of semi-soverign states, each with its own ...
One social problem that's being talked about more and more in Japan is hikikomori (hee-kee-KOH-MOH-ree, 引きこもり), a Japanese term that ...
The post-Koizumi era will soon be on us, now that Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe has officially been elected leader ...
Among the many problems modern Japan faces is katsuji-banare (ka-TSU-jee bah-NAH-ray), or a growing detachment from printed characters. Japan publishes ...
It's a boy! All Japan is currently cheering the news that Princess Kiko has given birth to a boy. The ...
