The rush is on to choose a successor to Prime Minister Abe after his sudden resignation on Wednesday. I saw ...
I knew it would happen: Heroes is starting to get popular in Japan. This morning I turned on the TV ...
I've written before about the psychology of ex-pats living in Japan, such as the the Three Stages of Eye Aversion ...
This past weekend saw the broadcast of "24 Hour TV," an annual charity drive broadcast by the Nippon TV network ...
You never know where the next interesting "boom" will come from in Japan. Maybe it'll be a strange new fashion ...
Well, I've completed my return journey, and am safely back in Japan. Whenever people hear I'm flying across the Pacific ...
What a difference an elongated vowel can make. Japanese is quite different from English, having had a totally unique developmental ...
Hello again from J-List. This time I've hopped over to sunny Las Vegas for a few days of much-needed relaxation ...
The word banzai is one of the most well-known Japanese phrases in the West, up there with geisha, samurai, ninja ...
Although the Japanese generally study six years of English (or up to ten if they take it in college), they're ...
Japan takes its baseball seriously, and right now the whole country is closely watching Daisuke Matsuzaka as he starts his ...
Last time I mentioned the magic words that may be responsible for much of the wa or harmony that Japan ...
One thing I like about living in Japan is the rail culture here, so very different from the freeway- and ...
I've written before about how Japan is a very safe place -- so safe it might just kill you with ...
People talk about convergence all the time, of things coming together in a more convenient form. Living in Japan, one ...
Part of Peter's Unified Theory of Japan is that the Land of the Rising Sun has a lot in common ...
Now that Christmas is past, Japan is getting ready for its own big season, Oshogatsu or New Year's Day, by ...
There are a lot of good things about living in Japan. Good food, from sushi to sashimi to Indian curry. ...
Last weekend my son and I decided to stop by Aeon, a sprawling American-style shopping mall that recently opened near ...
As a student of a foreign language, I know that there's no "magic" way to learn, and even if you ...
Today I took a couple of hours off work to participate in local politics, heading down to sit in on ...
Although Japan is a lot smaller than the U.S. -- it's about the same land area as Nebraska, but spread ...
All countries are affected to a certain extent by the views of foreigners. I've read that the Chinese never really ...
First, the J-List site went down for a couple hours on Tuesday night, U.S. time, due to a server hiccup, ...
