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Hello again from J-List, where you've always got a friend in Japan. I was recently asked what Japanese couples call ...

Greetings from Japan, on this quiet Monday evening. Remember those Gap jeans jacket commercials they were running a few months ...

Hello again from that zaniest of places, Japan. One show we like to watch on late-night Japanese TV is "Ranking ...

Hello again from Japan, that wacky place where "yes, that's so" always means "no." Well, the Season of the Sakura ...

Happy Wednesday from Japan, where foreigners are somehow compelled to refer to the country of George Washington as "the States" ...

Hello from Japan, now with 50% more volcanic eruptions than before! The big news in Japan right now is the ...

Greetings from Japan, where red is the opposite of white. I had great fun at my friend's wedding in Iwate ...

Hello again from Japan, where the Three Little Pigs' chant "not by the hair of my chinny-chin-chin" has a different ...

Hello again from Japan, home of the American Dog (someone must have thought a Corn Dog would sell better with ...

Greetings from Japan, on this lovely Friday. The latest hair fashion in Japan is a soft blonde that's very pleasing ...

Greetings from Japan, where a hamburger with a bun is a hamburger, but hamburger meat alone is a "hamburg." Consequently, ...

Greetings from Japan, the country with the highest per-capita number of vending machines in the world. Well, March 14 and ...

Greetings from J-List, your friend in Japan. Three people are dead after two trains collided head-on on the Hibiya Line ...

Greetings from Japan. It's a lazy Saturday afternoon as Tomo and I put the finishing touches on the weekend update ...

Greetings from J-List. Rina and are are safely back in Japan, after an eventless flight on Korean Airlines. I do ...

Hello again from Japan, where seemingly all girls rank Audry Hepburn as their favorite actress, and The Bodyguard as their ...

Hello from Japan, where love and chocolate is in the air. Today is Valentine's Day, and in Japan, that means ...

Hello again from Japan, the country that loves to wrap cookies individually. The case of the poor seven-year-old boy who ...

Hello again from Japan, the Origin of the Sun (as seen from China, who thought up the name). The convenience ...

Greetings from Japan, birthplace of karaoke, tomato pretzles and gummi candy shaped like a woman's breasts. We got a lot ...

Happy Monday, everyone, from your friends at J-List. For a country that loves English enough to come up with adjectives ...

Hello again from Japan, where Nutrasweet is known as "Slim Up Sugar." The Japanese do love to bathe, and most ...

Greetings from Japan, still a very cold place, although it's gotten a little warmer in the past few days. The ...

Happy Friday from J-List, now with 20% more Pocky! The Japanese bishojo game Tokimeki Memorial is one of the most ...