There are several methods of learning a foreign language, including grammar-translation (learning grammar and example sentences), Total Physical Response ("Simon ...
There are many things to like about Japan: beautiful temples, delicious food, cherry blossoms, and Hello Kitty bento boxes. But ...
Like most people, the Japanese have a tendency to look back with fondness on bygone eras, which they often sum ...
Well, A-Kon 17 is over and done, and all the fans have gone home. Tomorrow the J-List San Diego staff, ...
One debate going on in Japan right now is what role patriotism should play in society. Currently, Japanese are perhaps ...
With Japan's population having already peaked, the country is undergoing a national debate about how to raise its brith rate. ...
Japan is a very rail-centric place, and trains are a big part of life here. In big cities like Tokyo, ...
Japan as a nation is getting older, and is having to come to terms with this fact sooner than other ...
Japan is ecstatic over its 10-6 win over Cuba, which allowed the country to clench the first-ever World Baseball Classic ...
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 ...
