Tag: Neon Genesis Evangelion

Getting into anime means exposing yourself to a world of new ideas, some of which might be potentially confusing at ...

It's funny how anime characters tend to follow certain established patterns, like the classic dojikko clumsy girl, or the always-popular ...

J-List sells a ton of unique and wacky products from Japan, which I like to dig through for you. We ...

There are certain jobs in Japan that are naturally better filled by foreigners, such as employees in certain ethnic restaurants, ...

The other day I was watching a BBC documentary on ancient history, because BBC documentaries are awesome -- I hope ...

This has really been an awesome year to be an anime fan in Japan. In addition to the usual stream ...

Anime is an interesting platform for creating stories that couldn't exist in the real world, and one tool animators use ...

An interesting thing has happened to anime over the past few years: it's become quite common to see well-known products ...

The other day I went into a store and saw an advertisement for a chair that used bags of compressed ...

Last time I talked about some phrases that are very concise in Japanese yet have many long and complex potential ...

The Japanese system of phonology is a unique one based on syllables, for example allowing for the sounds ka, ki, ...

I love my iPhone, really I do. It lets me read Wikipedia in bed, check the status of the J-List ...

There's a sad statistic that's on the rise in Japan these days: divorce. The combination of the country's rapidly aging ...

One concept you encounter quite a lot in Japan is sekinin (seh-kee-neen), meaning responsibility or duty. While the James Clavell ...

Is teen heart-throb Zac Efron, the so-called "next Brad Pitt," an otaku? That's the question asked in a Japanese magazine ...

The Japanese, as I've written many times, are quite group oriented, and it's interesting to observe some of the actual ...

The other day I went into the living room to see my kids glued to the TV even though it ...

First of all, we had a problem with checkout on the J-List and JBOX.com websites that caused orders to not ...

Anime and comic books -- which are collectively referred with the term "manga" in Japanese -- are an inseparable part ...

Anyone who's ever worked in a Japanese organization for any length of time probably knows the frustration of having a ...

All countries have foreigners living in their midst, whether its a Swedish college student working for a season at a ...

Japan is nothing if not the land of contradictions. On the one hand, society has been organized in a vertical ...

It's hard raising bilingual children in a country where English isn't used on a daily basis, except on signs that ...

Somewhere between the staid features of futsu (normal) Japanese and the dizzying varieties of face, hair and body types seen ...