Tag: toilets in Japan

I've lived in Japan nearly two decades and have seen some things that really confused me over the years. Like ...

Spring vacation has come to Japan, and as a parent this means I've got two teenagers under foot for the ...

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

Although I've been in Japan for 18 years, there are some things I've never really mastered, like eating nattou, the ...

At J-List, we love to carry a wide range of products, some of which might be very useful, like the ...

Japan is a great country, and I like living here a lot. But no matter how long I stay here, ...

I received a request to talk about my house in Japan by a Twitter reader, so I thought I'd oblige. ...

For whaever reason, Japanese toilets seem to hold a special fascination for us gajin. Whether it's the convenience of toilet ...

Your environment is something you never think about until it changes: the people, things, foods, sounds and smells that surround ...

There are certain things you can find in a Japanese house that would be missing in most homes in the ...

Do you know what year it is? I often don't, thanks to the Japanese custom of counting years according to ...

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

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

In 2007 a sad event occurred in the town of Aizu-Wakamatsu, which is incidentally famous for being the site of ...

Japan's toilet culture is quite unique, especially when you're coming from the outside. First, there are two types of toilets ...

It's been said that Japan is the only country in the world that cares what its foreigners think, and I'm ...

The Japanese have a reputation for being innovative and coming up with new ways to make everyone's life a little ...

One of the themes of being an American living in Japan is discovering how much the country has taken various ...

At J-List, we all work hard to be the very best company we can be, bringing you fun and wacky ...

You've been in Japan too long when you pay over $70 for a Captain Santa T-shirt and realize a few ...

I know I write about toilets in Japan quite often. For some reason, there's a lot of interesting culture to ...

Do you know the story of Toire no Hanako-san, or Miss Hanako of the Toilet? It's a Japanese urban legend ...

If you've ever visited Japan, you've probably answered the call of nature at some point, and seen the famous TOTO ...

Part of the challenge of studying a foreign language is learning to categorize and separate the new concepts you encounter. ...