Tag: Star Wars

Greetings from Japan, where it's not polite to stick your chopsticks straight up in your rice (only dead people do ...

Hello from Japan, the home of embarrassing car names like Mazda Bongo Friendee and Toyota ED. It's said in Japan ...

My Otaku Reconsideration Portrait of an Otaky #1187by Peter R. PayneNote: the following is an article I wrote way back ...

Hello again from Japan, home of the world's only indoor skiing facility -- the Ssaws ski slope near Tokyo Disneyland, ...

Hello again from your friends in Japan!My wife is a member of the Silver Age generation of Japanese animation, having ...

Hello again from your friends in Japan! Seen a certain way, the Japanese can appear quite superstitious. Certainly, there are ...

Hello again from your friends in Japan! Seen a certain way, the Japanese can appear quite superstitious. Certainly, there are ...

Hello again from your friends in Japan! In general, when movies are released in Japan, there's a gap of a ...

Hello again from your friends in Japan! In general, when movies are released in Japan, there's a gap of a ...

Hello again from all your friends in Japan! Happy faces in email are now a part of Internet culture. The ...

Hello from Japan where kissing up to a superior is known as "grinding up the sesame seeds" (goma suri). First ...

Hello again from Japan, where a popular dessert is "coffee jelly" (coffee flavored gelatin), one of my personal favorites. Languages ...

Hello from Japan, where if you cut your fingernails at night, you won't be able to be with your parents ...

Hello and happy Thanksgiving to everyone! Thanksgiving is a very American holiday, and when you live in another country as ...

Hello from Japan, where the word for violence is "rambo." Some customers have told us of problems loading some pages ...

Hello again from all of us in Japan! The cold weather has begun in Japan, and we can feel real ...

Greetings from Japan, where a corndog is known as an "American dog." I don't doubt that part of the reason ...

Hello again from Japan, where the most common kind of coffee ordered in restaurants here is known as "American coffee." ...

Greetings, programs, from all of us in Japan! There's a wacky thing that Japanese do to money: fold a 1000 ...

Greetings from Japan, home of the original canned coffee (first canned in 1969 by the Ueshima Coffee Company of Kobe, ...

Hello again from all of us in Japan! The first anniversary of the World Trade Center disaster was a sad ...

Hello from all of us at J-List! Well, Harumi's wedding at St. Marry's (sic) Church went off without a hitch. ...

Hello again from your good friends in Japan! Japan has many nice customs, and one of my favorites are the ...

Hello and TGIF from your friends in Japan! August is drawing to a close, and that means that summer vacation ...