Tag: Star Wars

Back when I was in college I visited the Grand Canyon, and happened to see a poster advertising an IMAX ...

One thing I love about the Japanese is their tendency towards obsession. Whether it's collecting and displaying anime figures, filling ...

I'm grateful for many aspects of the modern world we live in. Like the high-speed Internet connection that enables me ...

"If there's a bright center to Britain, Number Four Privet Drive is the street that it's farthest from." I recently ...

I'm convinced that people can do anything they decide they can do. For example, I'm not good at math, and ...

From the Jedi Knights to the Kobayashi Maru to William Gibson's inclusion of Black Black caffeine gum in his cyberpunk ...

Like other languages, Japanese comes in various dialects. Some of these are regional, like "standard" Tokyo speech or the more ...

J-List loves being a bridge between Japan and the rest of the world and finding wacky items for our customers, ...

The world is in shock over the destruction from the terrible earthquake in Haiti, and the Japanese media has been ...

J-List remains in Super High Efficiency Mode, processing orders and getting them processed and out the door as quickly as ...

People who study marketing know that competitions often come down to two companies, like Coke and Pepsi for carbonated sugar ...

It's time to mark a very special anniversary which has meant a lot to many of my generation. While you ...

Since the two great obsessions of my life have been Japan and Star Wars, I enjoy it when they come ...

You may know that if you want to to express "you're welcome" in Japanese you can say "don't touch my ...

The other day I saw my wife watching an American movie that was being shown with Japanese subtitles, although I ...

As you probably know, I love Japan's culture of onsen, bathing in volcanic hot springs. But nothing good in life ...

Sometimes part of the fun of studying a language like Japanese is "surfing" the linguistic elements that are totally different ...

Pachinko is the national pastime of Japanese men, and most anytime you drive by one of the many pachinko parlors ...

Part of mastering a foreign language involves coming up with strategies that help you trick your brain into learning. In ...

I finally got to see the new Clone Wars computer animated film, which just opened here. One of the minor ...

I have a rather strange problem: I don't know my own kids. Or rather, I know the half that speaks ...

Humor is a very cultural thing, and it's fun to analyze the things people from different countries consider amusing -- ...

A lot has changed in the 17 years that I've lived in Japan. I arrived here in 1991, also known ...

One thing I like about being involved with Japan and anime is the "second childhood" it allows us all to ...