Tag: sports

Good evening from the country where "bikini" pronounced backwards means "pimple" (nikibi). Today I was talking with my wife about ...

Hello, and "happy weekend" from Japan and J-List! One thing I've noticed about Japanese, especially Japanese in Gunma Prefecture, which ...

Good evening from Japan, where calories are always "kikocalories." The social phenomenon known as "kogals" (Japanese young girls who wear ...

Greetings from your friends in Japan! Japan is a very seasonal place, and they seem to like it that way. ...

Hello again on this fine Saturday morning in Japan! Japanese marrying foreigners is at an all-time high, up nearly double ...

Hello and TGIF from Japan! With all that's different between Japan and the West, you can bet that there are ...

Hello again from the land of the Rising Gundam! Almost all Japanese with a high school education study English for ...

Hello again from Japan, the country where a car's turn signal is known as a "winker." There are many things ...

Hello again from Japan, home of such baseball teams as the Daei Hawks and the Hiroshima Carp. Japanese is an ...

Hello from Japan, on this Monday morning. I'm posting the update a few hours early today, as I'm off to ...

Happy Monday, from Japan! To an expat like me, living far from my home, the Internet is a wonderful thing. ...

Greetings from Japan, the country with the highest per capita number of vending machines in the world! (I think it's ...

Greetings again from that wackiest of places, Japan. The movie Schindler's List was a very touching story. Japan had their ...

Greetings from Japan, home of the original canned coffee (UCC Coffee, first canned in 1969). Recently, the famous landmark Studio ...

Hello again from J-List! Well, Playstation 2 is on sale, after many months of anticipation, and it's an incredible explosion ...

Hello again from your friend in Japan, J-List. Japanese love to take English words and play with them. In addition ...

Hello, all. We've had a busy Monday today, mostly with cleaning and arranging the J-List office. Monday is our designated ...

Hello from Japan. World Cup mania continues throughout the world (except perhaps the US, where soccer is just not followed), ...

Ah, summer. It's come to Japan with a vengeance, although it's still a month off according to the calendar. The ...

Well, tomorrow is another holiday here in Japan -- "Taiku no Hi", aka Sports Day. Alas, the Internet knows no ...

If you've ever lived in Japan, you may know that it's a very seasonal place. Summer is the season for ...