Tag: Studio Ghibli

I've been blogging about Japan since 1998 -- actually a bit before then, but I officially trace my start as ...

New Year's Eve is a good time to look back and remember the events of the past year. For Japan, ...

One thing everyone knows about the Japanese people is that they use chopsticks to eat with. It's true: except for ...

The Japanese like nothing more than to be recognized internationally for their achievements, which is why the popularity of anime/manga ...

The other day I watched the movie Psycho for the first time. The reason was that Tomo, the Japanese staffer ...

The other day my daughter asked me if I'd mind taking her to the Studio Ghibli museum in Mitaka, Tokyo, ...

I caught an interesting show on Japanese TV the other day called 子供に聞かせたい Kodomo ni Kikasetai! or "I Want to ...

There are many reasons to like Japan. Hot towels handed to you at most every restaurant. Trucks that warn you ...

I'm always happy when an anime series manages to be totally fresh and original, rather than yet another moe harem ...

Over the weekend the news broke that famed animation director Hayao Miyazaki will be officially retiring now that his newest ...

Tonight one of my favorite films is going to be shown on Japanese TV: Hayao Miyazaki's classic Castle in the ...

There's a new Hayao Miyazaki film in theaters right now, and since it's arguably my job to watch anime, I ...

  J-List at San Diego Comic Con The San Diego Comic-Con has become the premier worldwide festival for celebrating all ...

It's the calm before the storm as J-List gets ready for the San Diego Comic-Con next week, preparing the T-shirts, ...

Well, we're done with another Anime Expo, and this one was loads of fun as usual. We greeted many fans ...

I went to Japan in 1991, happy to finally put all the Japanese I'd studied at SDSU to some use ...

Last time I talked about how 謙遜 (ken-sohn, with a long vowel on the end), meaning humility, is considered an ...

Yesterday was my birthday, so I went on something called a "drinkabout" with some local friends, essentially a pub crawl ...

After 4 years of studying Japanese at SDSU and 22 years living in the country, I'm as functionally bilingual in ...

Sunday is Mother's Day, a day to think of your okaasan and do something nice for her if you can. ...

We like to think of our little company as a "wonderful toy box of things from Japan" where various products ...

I saw that yesterday marked the 25th anniversary of the release of My Neighbor Totoro, one of my all-time favorite ...

Today is the day of J-List's official New Year Party, and when we're done with work we'll all gather at ...

Part of Peter's Unified Theory of Japan is that the Japanese greatly desire to be seen in a favorable light ...