Tag: Studio Ghibli

The other day TV viewers in Japan got a treat: Quentin Tarantino and Brad Pitt appearing on the popular variety ...

An interesting thing has happened to anime over the past few years: it's become quite common to see well-known products ...

We like to call J-List "a wonderful toybox of things from Japan," and we do have an awful lot of ...

The other day I got an odd hankering to watch one of my favorite Hayao Miyazaki films, Kiki's Delivery Service, ...

One of the themes I write about a lot is how people in Japan are sensitive to how they're viewed ...

Before I came to Japan, I fancied myself a bit of a dessert aficionado. Pumpkin pie with vanilla ice cream ...

The other day I took my mother and the kids down to Tokyo to see the Studio Ghibli Museum, pretty ...

My favorite Japanese musician is 久石ジョー Hisaishi Joe, the talented composer who created the music for Hayao Miyazaki's most memorable ...

Moé (pronounced mo-EH) is one of the primary concepts driving much of the anime world today, essentially occupying an entire ...

I talked a couple weeks ago about how the Japanese language lacks definite and indefinite articles like "a" and "the" ...

Today's interesting word of Japanese is guuzen (GOO-zen), which means "coincidence." I don't know why, but there seems to be ...

I recently talked about Buddhism and how many of Japan's customs are tied to the religion, sometimes without people being ...

Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea is the latest film by Hayao Miyazaki, and it's been quite an event ...

I wrote before about how, in the complex world of obsessive otaku culture in Japan, there are (for example) fans ...

Last time I talked about the Ainu, the original inhabitants of the Japanese islands going back to the stone age. ...

One of my favorite movies is Spirited Away, a beautiful feature film by Hayao Miyazaki with a fabulous soundtrack by ...

Hayao Miyazaki is the animator and director that's brought so many wonderful films to the world, from Totoro to Kiki's ...

If you ever come to Japan, you really should be sure to sample the bathing culture here. Although onsen (natural ...

One of the amusing things about living in Japan is seeing what can only be described as "American branding," selling ...

One thing you don't hear very often when speaking English is someone saying, "Wait, what's the subject of your sentence? ...

Happy Halloween from J-List. Halloween is one of those "American" holidays (although originally Irish and Scottish) that has a way ...

Every language is constantly evolving, and while the English major in me isn't always happy about the LOLification of my ...

"You've been in Japan too long when you 'teach' someone your phone number." Of course, we all use different words ...

We've got a bit of a running joke in our family. South Korean television dramas are popular in Japan, and ...