Tag: onsen

When the Onsen Musume Project was first launched in 2016, as a Cool Japan initiative to revitalize the country's hot ...

Hello again from Japan. We're having a 15% off sale on all T-shirts and "ecchi" grab bags based in San ...

Hello again from Japan. There's a new Star Wars movie in town, and I'm taking the day off to go ...

It's fun to analyze the various tropes that are perpetuated in anime, like the rich blonde girl with an aristocratic ...

One interesting subject is the role of "fanservice" in anime, the little pantyshots or boob jiggles that studios add to ...

The Internet has been buzzing over an article that discussed the many challenges Japan faces in the future, including having ...

It's great being back in San Diego, enjoying the nice weather and energy of the city. I love surfing the ...

I'm enjoying my mini-vacation with my kids through the Japanese Alps, about 100 km north of Nagoya. We trekked through ...

We hope you're enjoying the all-new J-List website. Just a reminder: certain products like magazine and snack subscriptions, iTunes cards ...

J-List will be at the San Diego Comic-Con this year in booth 4929, in the "Anime Alley" part of the ...

J-List will be attending Anime Expo this year at booth 1319. We hope you'll come by our booth and check ...

The J-List staff continues to add great new products to the site at an incredible pace, with tons of amazing ...

Recently I started watching an anime from a few seasons ago called Non Non Biyori, translatable as something like "fine ...

One of my favorite things about Japan are onsen hot springs, the wonderful sulfur baths that are great for relaxing ...

Modern anime series usually go out of their way to set themselves in actual locations, which adds realism and also ...

I've made the 11-hour flight from California back to Japan, the land of onsen hot springs and toilets that wash ...

Names in Japanese are interesting, so I thought I'd write about how they work. Japanese names are generally written with ...

There are certain things about Asia that can be surprising at first. When my son was a young boy we ...

Every once in a while Japan does something that makes you stop and say, "wait, what?" Like when they advertised ...

If you visit Tokyo's prestigious Ginza district right now you might come across a shop selling products featuring the official ...

We hope everyone in the U.S. enjoyed a warm and pleasant Thanksgiving with family and friends. It's not a holiday ...

I took a couple of days off this week to travel with an Italian friend of mine to Hakone, a ...

Like many people in Japan, I am a 風呂人 furo-bito, or a person who likes taking baths in natural hot ...

One theme I write a lot about is how the Japanese are interested in the outside world, and especially in ...