Japan’s relationship to China and “Kampo” medicine, skills a foreigner in Japan needs, and all about tipping
Roughly speaking, Japan's historical relationship to China is similar to that of the West and ancient Rome and Greece: the ...
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The tradition of sitting on the floor in Japan, differences in business culture, and using non sequitors in Japanese
One tradition every foreigner living in Japan must come to terms with is sitting on the floor. The Japanese do ...
Greetings from J-List September 24, 2004
Hello again from Japan, where staplers are known as "hotchkiss," after a company that made them back in the 19th ...
Greetings from J-List September 22, 2004
Japan can be a very uniform place: because things like education and transportation policy tend to get decided on a ...
Greetings from J-List September 17, 2004
Hello again from Japan, home of cars with names like the Largo Wagonist and Suzuki Perky.Back when I was single, ...
Greetings from J-List April 7, 2004
Hello from all of us in Japan! We're back safely from our trip to the U.S. We had a great ...
Greetings from J-List March 31, 2004
Hello again from J-List. It's time for another slice of life from your friends in Japan.The Japanese name registry (koseki) ...
Greetings from J-List February 23, 2004
Hello again from Japan!America and Japan are very different in many ways, and the relationships between men and women reflect ...
Greetings from J-List December 5, 2003
Hello and Happy Friday from J-List! Winter is approaching, and days are getting chillier. It's the season when Japanese get ...
Greetings from J-List September 12, 2003
Hello again from all of us in Japan! The second anniversary of the September 11 tragedy was marked in Japan ...
Greetings from J-List August 18, 2003
Hello again from your friends in Japan! Things have really changed in Japan in the last twelve years or so ...
Greetings from J-List June 20, 2003
Hello and TGIF from your friends in Japan! Transliteration is the act of transcribing from one writing system into another, ...
Greetings from J-List March 24, 2003
Hello from Japan, where you can still find "skin color" crayons sold in stores. It's quite well known that in ...
Greetings from J-List October 15, 2003
Hello again from your friends in Japan! Halloween has come early to J-List. At various times during the year, my ...
Greetings from J-List April 5, 2002
Hello and TGIF from all your friends at J-List! One reason I love living in Japan is that I love ...
Greetings from J-List November 5, 2001
Hello again from your friends at J-List! Well, our sojourn to the U.S. is at an end, and tomorrow we ...
Greetings from J-List July 30, 2001
Hello from the New J-List! We're happy to take the wraps off the all-new J-List homepage! The new J-List site ...
Greetings from J-List December 20, 2000
Greetings from Japan, a country where, in the words of a wise friend of mine, You know no one is ...
