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Florida is getting pummeled by Hurricane Katrina, but Japan just got walloped by Typhoon No. 11, which dumped tons of ...

Hello again from J-List. Well, Otakon is over, the 20,000+ anime fans have gone home, and I'm headed back to ...

It's once again that time most feared by foreigners living in Japan: election season, when white-gloved Japanese politicians drive around ...

It's August in Japan, and to millions of Japanese sports fans that means -- high school baseball! High school baseball ...

Hello again from Japan, and a special weekend update to J-List!I've written before about how the Japanese like to take ...

Attempting to master a foreign language is a big undertaking, and if you want to become fluent someday you need ...

Each year in Japan, the list of who paid the most income taxes during the previous year is published in ...

Japan's tendency to rank individuals in groups as senpai (sem-PAI, a senior member of a group, or upperclassman) and kouhai ...

My Japanese mother-in-law remarked the other day that, "You don't see women with big stomachs very often these days." At ...

My mother and nephew have gone back to San Diego after a nice visit. It was fun having them here, ...

Today is White Day, the day that Japanese confectioners and retailers have decreed that men give a return gift (o-kaeshi) ...

Oopsie -- once again I see I've forgotten to post my after doing the J-List update. Sorry!Today's J-List post is ...

We had fun at Tokyo Disneyland. It was threatening to rain the whole time, but it didn't, so we knew ...

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

You've been in Japan too long when you pronounce the word "warehouse" as "wah-rey house." Japanese pronunciation is extremely easy, ...

You've been in Japan too long when you pronounce the word "warehouse" as "wah-rey house." Japanese pronunciation is extremely easy, ...

There are always interesting ways to gain an understanding of a society through its language. One word that speaks to ...

Hello again from Japan, where going to Kentucky always means going out for fried chicken.Happy Birthday to Hello Kitty! When ...

Japan can sure be a perplexing place. When you buy a can of beer for 200 yen, it's a given ...

Hello from the J-List crew, this time in beautiful Guam, a small island three hours from Japan, and a U.S. ...

Hello and T.G.I.F. from everyone on the J-List team!It's fall, and that means it's the season for school sports festivals, ...

Hello and T.G.I.F. from everyone on the J-List team!It's fall, and that means it's the season for school sports festivals, ...

Hello again from Japan, the home of Melon Soda, a popular soft drink here (good with vanilla ice cream in ...

Sunday was the centennial of the death of Lafcadio Hearn, one of the first gaijin to "turn Japanese" and live ...