Tag: Star Wars

August is the hottest month in Japan, a great time to enjoy shave ice and watermelon and maybe some ice ...

It's always fun to turn on late night TV in Japan and see what interesting shows I can find, like ...

When a foreigner goes to Japan, especially for an extended period of time rather than a brief visit as a ...

I took a trip to Tokyo last week to see some guys about an eroge, and while I was riding ...

Today is New Year's Eve, a day to do any last-minute "big cleaning," including getting the car washed, since no ...

There are many innovative ways Japanese companies advertise to get their messages out to people, like running a short commercial ...

While Japan has been a huge influence in my life from a young age, the other great inspiration for me ...

When I'm in the U.S., I like to take the chance to drive around to different places in my 2002 ...

My son has flown over from Japan to relax in San Diego and practice his English before heading back east ...

Today is Geek Pride Day, a special day for all of us to celebrate the nerdier side of life, from ...

Everyone knows that adding 'y' to the end of a noun can turn it into an adjective, like silky, messy, ...

Over the weekend Star Wars Episode 1 in 3D opened in Japan, so I took my son to see the ...

Well, 2011 is finally at an end. It was a very strange year, filled with events that no one could ...

When you go to an onsen (OWN-sen), a hot springs bath, it's important to have all the essentials with you, ...

I've written before about how anime is a very stylized world, where characters can have impossibly large and expressive eyes ...

One thing everyone knows about the Japanese people is that they use chopsticks to eat with. Yes, except for certain ...

I'm taking a bit of a vacation with my son, with the two of us traveling to places that are ...

I recently posted an image on the J-List Facebook page and my Twitter feed listing "famous" actors and other personalities ...

Japan is famous as the home of hilarious "Engrish," the mistaken English signs or T-shirts you often see on the ...

While Japan has always had a reputation for taking ideas from the West and improving on them (sometimes beyond recognition), ...

We interrupt this J-List update to bring you...a giant Earthquake! The 8.9 magnitude quake that hit around Sendai shook the ...

The new Macross Frontier "Wings of Goodbye" (Sayonara no Tsubasa) movie opened yesterday, and being a dedicated Japan blogger and ...

I write a lot about the different memes that come along in Japan, and how they interact with the Internet ...

Every once in a while I'm reminded suddenly that...I live in Japan. It could be a sudden earthquake causing my ...