Tag: sports

Japan is a very literate nation, and there are many daily newspapers and weekly magazines that report and compile the ...

Studying a foreign language is fun because it helps you learn about your own language, too. I've always been interested ...

The Japanese are some of the longest-lived people on the planet, with women living 84 years and men 78 years, ...

This weekend we all got in the car and headed off to Karuizawa ("ka-roo-EE-za-wa"), our favorite mountain getaway, for a ...

Every autumn in Japan the leaves change to beautiful shades of red and yellow and vermillion, a spectacle called koyo ...

One of the fun things about living in Japan is getting to watch Japanese television. There are 5 national television ...

(It looks like Wednesday's update had some trouble going out to everyone. If you missed it, please go to the ...

Happy Halloween from all of us at J-List. Yesterday was the big Halloween Party at my son's experimental elementary school, ...

There's a fight brewing in Japan's business world, as investment fund Murakami Asset Management, the largest shareholder of the popular ...

Hello again from Japan. We're very sorry with the problems with the site after the last update -- we had ...

It's August in Japan, and to millions of Japanese sports fans that means -- high school baseball! High school baseball ...

Attempting to master a foreign language is a big undertaking, and if you want to become fluent someday you need ...

One of the benefits from living in Japan is having access to cool keitai denwa, cellular phones. The three main ...

Each year in Japan, the list of who paid the most income taxes during the previous year is published in ...

Every few weeks my kids bug me to take them to the "ge-sen," or game center, and I give in ...

Hello again from Japan, the home of such products as Mapple (map book), Crunky (crunchy chocolate) and Quickle Wiper (floor ...

The month of March means different things to different people. In Japan it's a time of partings (wakare no kisetsu), ...

One of the more interesting aspects of Japan is the effect Japan's "idol culture" has on everyday life. You can't ...

Hello all. Apologies on posting this late -- I plum forgot to post the blog on Friday when I finished ...

One interesting social concept I see at work a lot in Japan is the idea of "gaman," which means to ...

Hello again from Japan, where going to Kentucky always means going out for fried chicken.Happy Birthday to Hello Kitty! When ...

Japan can sure be a perplexing place. When you buy a can of beer for 200 yen, it's a given ...

Like Bill Gates and Donald Trump, the movers and shakers of the Japanese business world -- the "shacho" or company ...

Japan is ecstatic about the achievement of Ichiro, Japan's current favorite son, who beat the record for most hits in ...