Tag: Tokyo

Japan is a special place, and when foreigners visit the country for the first time it's a truly magical thing ...

I have an odd policy when it comes to anime: I watch nearly every show twice. If it's worth watching ...

I recently saw a news article about U.S.-based Auntie Anne's Pretzels, which had opened its first location in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. ...

Although the Japanese generally have both feet firmly on the ground, there are times when they can be extremely superstitious. ...

I've done many things in the nearly two decades I've lived in Japan. I've hitchhiked from Hiroshima to Sapporo, sleeping ...

A new tree is growing in the middle of Japan's sprawling capital: Tokyo Sky Tree, the under-construction broadcast tower that ...

I write a lot about how learning a foreign language like Japanese helps you understand how your own brain works. ...

There are certain skills the Japanese people possess, which we poor gaijin usually lack. Like the ability to sit for ...

Japan is an expensive place, and travelling inside the country can be costly, although there are some good ways to ...

I took a trip down to Tokyo yesterday for a meeting with a company about some dating-sim games. As usual, ...

Japan squeezes about half the population of the U.S. into a country the size of California, which alone would seem ...

Japan is often said to be a "vertical" society, in which a given person has a higher or lower social ...

Before I came to Japan, I thought I knew pretty much what kinds of people I'd find here: lots of ...

On Sunday my wife and son drove to his juku, or evening preparatory school (a.k.a. "cram school"), for a formal ...

If you go to Tokyo's Shibuya Station right now you can see an incredible piece of art created by late ...