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It's funny, the little bits of Japanese culture you can pick up from random episodes of anime. I've been trying ...

In a world where so many anime series follow the adventures of yet another high school club trying to assemble ...

Every couple of years an anime season comes along that's overflowing with must-watch series, and the current batch of shows ...

Kanji, of course, are the characters that communicate meaning in written Japanese, imported from China around the 4th Century A.D. ...

My favorite aspect of anime is the way characters communicate emotion to viewers in ways that go beyond what's possible ...

Coming to Japan meant getting used to many things. Canned coffee, or corn and mayonnaise on pizza. Rooms that were ...

The Japanese are fond of designating certain days to commemorate random things, and every time I get in my car ...

One of the proudest days in the lives of parents is going shopping with their child to buy a school ...

With a sentence structure and grammar unlike anything used in the West along with three different writing systems, learning the ...

Well, the first season of the I Have Few Friends anime has ended, although I wish it would go on ...

I write a lot about the theory and practice of moe (mo-eh), since it's a subject that's dear to me. ...

Well, my long sojourn in the U.S. is finally at an end, and I'm returning to Japan with my son ...

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

One impression of the Japanese language I got soon after arriving here was one of "duality," and it seemed that ...

Anime as a whole has proved remarkably adept at insinuating itself in the hearts and minds of fans all over ...

The rapid changes brought by the Internet have forced just about every industry to adapt. Anime is no different, and ...

The other day I wrote about what Japanese people do when they catch colds, including strange things like wrapping leeks ...

One of the more welcome aspects of the Japanese language is the system of "grammatical particles" which mark parts of ...

Japan's first Hooters location opens today in Tokyo, and the Japanese Internets are buzzing about the new restaurant, where food ...

Getting Pizza Hut in Japan is always a treat: it is delicious, featuring toppings you can't get anywhere else like ...

With a sentence structure and grammar unlike anything used in the West along with three different writing systems, learning the ...