Tag: sports

Hello again from Japan! This year is the 400th anniversary of the establishment of Edo (Tokyo) as the capital of ...

Hello from Japan, where the restaurant chain Coco's bills itself as "The California Restaurant." There's a famous face game that ...

Hi again from Japan, where you bow to drivers when they give you the right of way (and I do ...

Hello again from Japan, where you can find "goma ice" -- that's sesame seed flavored ice cream to you and ...

...you keep looking for new copies of Gegege-no-kitaro and Hi-no-tori manga at the local bookstore. ...you have copies of nengajo ...

...when you think it might be a groovy idea to get one of those multicolored dragon tattoos on your back ...

Hello again from all your friends in Japan! With tensions in Iraq increasing every day, Japanese are nervous about what ...

Hello again from Japan, home of the world's only indoor skiing facility -- the Ssaws ski slope near Tokyo Disneyland, ...

Hello again from Japan, the home of tako-yaki, a delicious ball of batter with octopus inside. Beer is the preferred ...

Hello again from Japan, where "UFO" and "VIP" are pronounced as words, not spelled out (e.g." you-foh" and "vipp"). All ...

Hello again from Japan, the home of strawberry and butter sandwiches! There are some words that the Japanese are doomed ...

Hello from a somewhat nerve-wracked J-List. Wildfires are raging across several parts of San Diego, and unfortunately, the area of ...

Hello and TGIF from your friends in Japan! Living in Japan means being at peace with standing out in a ...

Hello again from Japan, where the "@" mark in email address is called "at-mark." Because English has been taught in ...

Hello again from your friends in Japan! Halloween has come early to J-List. At various times during the year, my ...

Hello and "Akemashite Omedetou" from all of us at J-List! The New Year is here, and J-List is happy to ...

Hello again and Happy Holidays from J-List! We're having fun in San Diego, relaxing and generally recharging our batteries. The ...

Hello again from your friends in Japan! Late December is here, and 2002 is quickly winding down. In Japan, this ...

Hello again from Japan, where basic drip coffee served in coffee shops is known as "American coffee." For a country ...

Hello again from all of us in Japan! The first anniversary of the World Trade Center disaster was a sad ...

Greetings from all of us at J-List! With the Japanese recession continuing for so long, it's become quite common to ...

Hello again from your friends in Japan! It's August, and in Japan, that meant heat and humidity. And for fans ...

Hello and TGIF from all of us in Japan! One thing I've learned from my years in Japan is that ...

Hello and TGIF from Japan! I often look back on my years of teaching English as a Second Language to ...