Tag: Puella Magi Madoka Magica

When dealing with other languages there's plenty of potential for words that are similar in sound to become confused in ...

Before coming to Japan, I knew the Japanese drank "green tea," but naturally it was destined to be more complicated ...

Happy Halloween from Japan! October 31st is a fun day to wear scary costumes and chase ghosts and spirits from ...

The Japanese, as I've often written, are a group-oriented people, and it's interesting to observe the subtle body language that ...

Japanese food has become famous all over the world, and most people are familiar with sushi, sashimi, tempura, soba, udon, ...

One of the first things you do when learning a foreign language is, of course, to investigate all the "naughty" ...

It was reported last week that the Japanese Diet had passed a new law that outlawed various forms of Internet ...

It's always interesting to explore the "when worlds collide" moments between Japan and the U.S. Tomo, the J-List employee who ...

Japan is, on the whole, a very safe place. The number of murders in the entire country is among the ...

It's fun to study the history of the memes that pop up in anime. Every time you watch an onsen ...

Hello from sunny cloudy San Diego. I've made the 5443 mile (8759 km) journey from Japan to my home city, ...

Part of Peter's Unified Theory of Japan is that to really understand a culture, you have to learn to love ...

We've got a slightly irregular update schedule since I'm traveling this week, but don't worry, the J-List staff has posted ...

Tomorrow is Valentine's Day, when millions of Japanese males will wake up hoping to receive chocolate from their wives, girlfriends, ...

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

A few weeks ago I took some time off to go up to an onsen resort in the mountains with ...

A couple of updates ago I used the word "filial piety" (oya koko, pronounced oh-yah koh-koh) when discussing the signs ...

Today is a very special day, one I've been waiting for for a long time: Pocky Day, 2011. The Japanese ...

The #OccupyWallStreet demonstrations have certainly been in the news a lot, and now they've come to Tokyo, with several different ...

Happy Moe Day! Due to the way the kanji for moe looks like the characters for "10-month 10-day" or October ...

One question often asked is, why do anime characters look "Western"? Often Americans will perceive the "large eyes" seen in ...

Transliteration is the act of transcribing words from one writing system to another, and it's a very complex and imprecise ...

Does language influence how we perceive the world? It's certainly an interesting question, and one that I sometimes bat around ...

Sometimes it's fun to deconstruct the bizarre "physics" of anime, which violate the laws of the universe we live in ...