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There's a wacky trick that Japanese sometimes do with money: fold a 1000 yen bill so that Hideyo Noguchi, the ...

Being half Japanese and half American, my kids don't always fit the mold that's prepared for them here in Japan. ...

The other day I bought an Initial D driving game for my Playstation 3, which is fun since the mountains ...

My wife reads the Japanese version of Newsweek, and sometimes I thumb through it to see how it compares to ...

When the cute-as-a-button Aki Hoshino tried to enter a casino in Macau the other day, she suddenly found herself forbidden ...

The first Japanese person to set foot on American soil was Manjiro Nakahama, a 14-year-old fisherman who was rescued in ...

Words carry different meanings to different people. For example, the most common word for steamed white rice in Japanese is ...

I've written before about how people's perceptions can easily get confused when dealing with other cultures, like how millions of ...

The economy here in Japan has certainly been better, and it seems that every day brings more news of production ...

Ask any gaijin living in Japan about dentists here and you'll probably hear a lot of complaints. I recently changed ...

The other day my daughter asked me if I wanted to play Mari-Suma with her, and I replied that I'd ...

The number of suicides in Japan has topped the 30,000 mark for the eleventh year in a row, with the ...

I recently saw that Japan had topped Save the Children's annual Child Development Index, which ranks nations on how well ...

When I was six years old, I lived in New Zealand for a year. Besides falling in love with something ...

If you went to the supermarket recently, you might have picked up some cereal and put it in your cart. ...

In my city there's a bridal shop that sells the most beautiful wedding kimonos for happy Japanese brides to wear, ...

Clang clang! Clang clang! Right outside my window right there's a fire truck driving by slowly, ringing a bell and ...

Recently my kids took the Eiken Test, the primary standardized test of English used in Japan. They really dislike it ...

As with other countries, there are many foreigners living and working in Japan, each contributing to society in different ways. ...

One of the many products J-List carries is a fun film called Big Dreams, Little Tokyo, a movie I like ...

During the Sports Festival, I engaged in a little hobby of mine: hunting for bizarre English T-shirts. For some reason, ...

Most Western nations are facing the problem of ageing populations, but Japan is really leading the pack, with its combination ...

I remember back in the 1980s, when Japan's educational system was held up as a success story for other nations ...

One of the cardinal rules for gaijin coming to Japan is, try your best to make it over here as ...