Tag: otaku

Yesterday I went down to Tokyo, visiting Akihabara to scout for awesome products I wanted to carry on J-List. (The ...

When you go to an onsen (OWN-sen), a hot springs bath, it's important to have all the essentials with you, ...

As the Internet continues to take over our lives, new net-related activities become popular. In Japan the video site Nico ...

The Internets have been buzzing with news that the word kawaii had been officially added to the Oxford English Dictionary, ...

Ever since the word "idol" (aidoru) entered the language in 1971, Japan has had a weakness for kawaii female idols. ...

One nice thing about living in Japan is the rail culture here, so very different from the freeway- and automobile-based ...

Well the Steins;Gate TV series has finally ended, and I enjoyed it a lot. As a card-carrying fan of any ...

The other day I caught a CNN blog post about the term otaku, and whether it was a positive or ...

Over the weekend I took a trip into Tokyo to meet some friends from the States who were in Japan ...

The "age of JPOP idols" in Japan began in 1971, the first year the term "idol" (aidoru) was used on ...

Japan is the land of the "boom," and you never know what will become popular next. One year all the ...

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

Recently a customer posted a question on our Facebook page asking if there were any "realistic" anime series, which seemed ...

Well, that was quite a trip. Over five days my son and I managed to hit some of the more ...

It's well known that Japan's birthrate is among the lowest in the industrialized world, standing at just 1.29 per female. ...

It's fun to deconstruct random elements of anime, for example...dads! Fathers in anime come in many shapes and sizes, and ...

Everyone knows there are no guns in Japan...which is why I was rather surprised when I discovered that a Japanese ...

One of the joys of being an anime fan in Japan is visiting the real places seen in your favorite ...

Recently I talked about how the members of the wider online community of people fascinated with Japan and its popular ...

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

It must be strange, having a professional otaku for a dad. Just by living in Japan, my kids (daughter aged ...

It's funny how words are perceived by people in different ways. My wife asked me how to say the word ...

The most common word for "foreigner" in Japanese is gaijin, a term that's used to describe Westerners who are obviously ...

One of my favorite weekend activities is hitting an onsen, or hot springs bath, and I'm fortunate that J-List is ...