PETA Hates Cute
I write often about Japan's love for kawaii (cute) culture, which has come to define the country as much as ...
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The Ancient Game of Karuta
The Japanese are good at coming up with innovative ways of committing information to memory, like the man who memorized ...
In Los Angeles, at E3
I've made a quick hop from Japan to "Los" (as the Japanese call Los Angeles) to attend the popular E3 ...
Happy New Year 2011 from J-List!
Happy New Year to everyone, and best wishes for a safe and peaceful 2011 from your friends in Japan at ...
Learning Japanese in Japanese
When I started my third year of Japanese at SDSU, there was a new book we were required to buy: ...
Love Plus Comes to the iPhone (If You Have a Japan iTunes Prepaid Card)
You probably know you can get access to the awesome JPOP music and anime songs using the popular iTunes Japan ...
Awesome Japanese Study Supplies from J-List
When I was studying Japanese back in the 1980s, I had a real problem finding tools to help me learn, ...
Origin of the Atari Name and Logo
There are many benefits of learning Japanese. You get to interact with some of the friendliest people in the world ...
Macross Ultimate Frontier on the PSP
Over the weekend I had some fun with my copy of Macross Ultimate Frontier, a superb game for the Sony ...
Love Plus Pocky
I spent my weekend in a Japanese high school, dating three different girls in Love Plus, the awesome interactive dating-sim ...
Famous in Japan?
The other day I was watching a show about strange and unique world records people had achieved, and there was ...
One Way of Understanding Japan’s Culture: Kata (Form)
One way of approaching an understanding of Japan is through the word kata, which means "form" and describes the many ...
Funny Japanese place names: Eromanga??
There are some pretty hilarious place names in the world, like Hell, Michigan, Hookersville, West Virginia or Lord Berkeley's Knob, ...
More thoughts on the LOLification of English and strange Japanese Internet slang
As the Internet Age marches on, the ongoing LOLification of my native language often has me saying WTF? even though ...
The interesting status of voice actors in Japan, shortening foreign words in English and Japanese, and ways that the Japanese aren’t so polite
Anime has really gotten big in the U.S. in recent years, changing the face of popular culture as people are ...
Learning about Japan through traditional calligraphy, interesting trends on Japanese television, and all about the word “Domo”
One way to learn about Japan is through its traditional calligraphy, which uses a writing brush called a fude (FOO-day) ...
What Japanese think of foreigners who learn their language, odd ways to get cell phone customers, and American politics seen through Japanese eyes
I'm often asked what the Japanese think of foreigners who go out of their way to learn the language. I ...
More ways we foreigners can save Japan, all about “Nihonjinron” and superstitions about death
Last time I put forth the idea that perhaps one solution to Japan's birth rate woes might lie in international ...
Trends in wealth in Japan, and comparing Dr. Pepper and Tootsie Rolls to Pocky
Each year in Japan, the list of who paid the most income taxes during the previous year is published in ...
Greetings from J-List 11/26/04
First of all, happy day after Thanksgiving, if you're in the U.S. -- we hope everyone had a warm and ...
Greetings from J-List May 12, 2003
Hello again from all your friends in Japan! The Japanese do love their alcohol, and in generally consume a large ...
Greetings from J-List April 25, 2003
Greetings from Japan, where it's not polite to stick your chopsticks straight up in your rice (only dead people do ...
My Otaku Reconsideration
My Otaku Reconsideration Portrait of an Otaky #1187by Peter R. PayneNote: the following is an article I wrote way back ...
Greetings from J-List May 22, 2001
Hello again from J-List, your neighborhood friend in Japan. Have you ever spoken to a Japanese person and wondered why ...
