Tag: memes

It's fun to study random bits of Japanese culture, like the way children who want the weather to be good ...

It's fun to pay attention to the visual memes that show up in anime series. For example, if a boy ...

I've written before about how Japan's Internet is quite different from the net in the English-speaking world, with different memes ...

I like to read sci-fi novels with mind-bogglingly big ideas in them. One series I enjoyed was the Uplift Saga ...

It's fun to study the history of the memes that pop up in anime. Every time you watch an onsen ...

One of the major themes of the past three decades of animation in Japan has been the movement away from ...

I think it'd be impossible for a person to live in a foreign country if they didn't like the food ...

It's fun to observe how the visual elements of anime character design change and evolve from season to season. Animators ...

Today is White Day, an event created to serve as a "return gift day" when men in Japan will give ...

Happy All Your Base Day, everyone. February 15 is the 11th anniversary of the release of the famous "All Your ...

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

It's fun to observe the way visual memes move from one anime series to the next, always evolving and changing ...

I hope everyone in the States enjoyed the Superbowl. Unfortunately Sunday in the U.S. is Monday morning here in Japan ...

One of the more interesting trends over the past decade or so has been the rise of serious fangirls, called ...

There are many mysterious things about anime that might puzzle viewers from time to time. Why do characters sneeze randomly ...

Today is Halloween, a day for wearing ghoulish costumes and having lots of scary fun. Although you can see plenty ...

One of the more successful companies to emerge from Japan is Yakult, the maker of drinkable yogurt beverages that has ...

One of the themes of being an American expat in Japan is discovering how much the country has taken various ...

Anime, of course, is rife with fun memes that have emerged over the years, passed from creators to fans and ...

For a country that eats as much rice as Japan, they have some pretty interesting kinds of bread, too. Introduced ...

I like analyzing the little cultural memes I see in Japan, for example what kinds of things are considered "romantic" ...

I write often about the interesting ways Japan influences the West and vice versa. When the Matrix was released in ...

Japan is finishing up its Golden Week holidays, and since several of the J-List staff have been taking a few ...

I caught a new article about Japan's exporters like Nissan and Toyota beginning to check for radiation on products being ...