Tag: sports

The top two private universities in Japan are Keio and Waseda, and like the famous Yale-Harvard football rivalry, the two ...

The other day I was driving in my Mazda Miata (which is called a Roadster here in Japan, though for ...

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

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

It's interesting, the subtle things you can pick up from anime, which go beyond the story you're watching. I recently ...

I started watching the new anime MoshiDora, also known as Moshi Nihon no Joshi Manager ga Drucker no 'Management' o ...

Japan's crisis continues, though things are slowly coming under control. As calm returns and companies work hard to normalize the ...

It's been another unbelievable roller-coaster of a year for all of us a J-List, a time of learning new things ...

Without a doubt, one of the more interesting aspects of anime is the way it uses strong emotions to heighten ...

I wrote last time about how names work in Japanese, and how it can be fun to assign kanji to ...

One thing you have to understand about the Japanese is, they like lists, such as the Three Beautiful Sights of ...

The other day I was at the local hot springs bath, washing myself after getting a haircut. (Barber shops located ...

On the weekends I like to go on trips with my family, most often to an onsen (volcanic hot springs) ...

The word otaku has come to represent the culture both in Japan and around the world of embracing awesomely nerdy ...

Autumn is here, and that means the return of nikuman (niku-mahn), those delicious Chinese steamed buns that they sell in ...

The question of who the most famous Japanese person in the world is can be fun to debate. In previous ...

This year marks the 100th anniversary of Japan's invasion of the Korean peninsula, which started a 35 year period during ...

While all languages change over time, the massive shifts the Japanese language has been through over the past century and ...

I was recently asked to write about the news media in Japan, and I'm happy to oblige. Like other countries, ...

Coming to live in Japan means remapping some of the English words in your brain to fit the way the ...

When I arrived in Japan, I had to get used to many new things, like being the only gaijin at ...

Can you hear that endless mechanical noise? It's the sound of thousands of inkjet printers in Japan, grinding out nengajo, ...

The other day TV viewers in Japan got a treat: Quentin Tarantino and Brad Pitt appearing on the popular variety ...

Congratulations to the Yankees for winning the World Series. Japan is extremely proud that their own Hideki Matsui played such ...