Tag: nichijou

Hello and selamat pagi from Japan! I'm back from my week in Malaysia, where Mrs. J-List and I were visiting ...

What anime has made you laugh the most? For me it was Kaguya: Love is War. I laughed so hard ...

There are many iconic images that represent Japan. Some of these are quite famous around the world -- Mt. Fuji, ...

I write often about the word 常識 joushiki, which means "common sense," e.g. the common beliefs and opinions shared by ...

One of the most fascinating things about the world is the way our perceptions change as the scale we're observing ...

Selamat pagi! That's 'good morning' in Malay and Indonesian, and a Nichijou reference, in case you didn't catch that series. ...

One famous aspect of the Japanese language is its vagueness and subtlety of meaning. For example, passive speech is used ...

J-List is based in Gunma, a landlocked prefecture in the exact center of Japan that's said to be shaped like ...

Dialects are part of the wonderfully complex world of human language, and Japanese has many distinct dialects in use, although ...

I'm a fan of the Nichijou anime and manga series, and was even before I discovered that, through a huge ...

These days nearly all anime is "filmed" in a real location, and you have a car and an obsessive personality, ...

Although the Japanese generally are very polite and considerate, there are times when foreigners like me might consider what they ...

Japan is a very different place from the U.S., and during my years as an ESL teacher I often found ...

I like to post various things to my Twitter feed, including various observations about Japan as well as info on ...

Anyone who's watched more than a few anime series is probably familiar with the common trope of the token character ...

Learning a foreign language is a difficult thing, and to do it properly you frankly need to get a little ...

One of the coolest images of Japan, to me, are the Daruma, the unique red, roundish dolls that are quite ...