Tag: sports

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 ...

When you watch anime, you open yourself up to a culture that's very different from the West, and it's not ...

I spent my weekend in a Japanese high school, dating three different girls in Love Plus, the awesome interactive dating-sim ...

Yes, I am finally getting around to posting my pictures from my trip to frozen (well, slightly cool) northern Japan. ...

The other day I went into a store and saw an advertisement for a chair that used bags of compressed ...

Around the world newspapers are having a rough time as circulation continues to drop, thanks in part to the changes ...

I've often gotten the impression that Japan has a reputation for not matching the standards set by the U.S. and ...

The other day we went out for one of my favorite Japanese foods, katsu, or fried cutlet of pork or ...

A major category within the world of Japanese comedy is mono-mane (moh-noh MAH-neh), or comedians doing impersonations of famous people, ...

The shows on Japanese TV around New Year's are especially interesting to watch. I was fascinated with a Japanese variety ...

Today's interesting word of Japanese is guuzen (GOO-zen), which means "coincidence." I don't know why, but there seems to be ...

You can pick almost any area to compare Japan with the U.S.: history, culture, sports -- or if you like, ...

During the Sports Festival, I engaged in a little hobby of mine: hunting for bizarre English T-shirts. For some reason, ...

Autumn is upon us, and in Japan that means one thing: School Sports Festival, a special event held at all ...

If you love "corn potage," then get to Japan as fast as you can, since people here just can't get ...

I remember back in the 1980s, when Japan's educational system was held up as a success story for other nations ...

Next time you're in Osaka, consider visiting the Monofuku Ando Memorial Ramen Museum, a sprawling facility commemorating the achievements of ...

Japan has a new Prince of Tennis, by the name of Kei Nishikori, who is kicking butt in the U.S. ...

There are certain things that every self-respecting Japanese city will be sure to have. For example, a large central Culture ...

Well, the Olympics are here, and Japan is buzzing with sports fever, hoping that their athletes will do well at ...

Hello from Japan, where the pound key on a phone (#) is called "sharp" (as in a musical note) and ...