Tag: USA

Happy Wednesday, from Japan, where a cup of "American" means a weak cup of coffee. Now that the 1990's are ...

Merry Christmas! Christmas isn't for another month, but today was our "uso no kurisumasu" (fake Christmas), since this was the ...

Greetings from J-list, the country that invented curtains for cars. Every languages has its interesting idioms, which are fun and ...

Hello from Japan, on this windy Wednesday evening. Well the U.S. elections are over. They were closely watched from Japan, ...

Greetings again from Japan! The idea of a man taking his wife's last name after marriage would be pretty rare ...

Greetings from Japan, where it's not polite to stick your chopsticks straight up in your rice. It sure is hot ...

Hello again, on this fine Saturday afternoon (Japan time). I'm putting the finishing touches on today's update, and then I'm ...

Happy Monday from a very hot J-List! We're still working without our main aircon, during one of the hottest summers ...

Hello from Japan, that hot, humid but eminently fun country. Well, Japan officially has a 2000 yen note, now that ...

Greetings from Japan, the original home of "Pepsi Man." I got some questions about insurance practices in Japan, so I ...

Greetings from Japan, the only country with love hotel built like the cruise ship Q.E. II (and it's right in ...

Hello again from Japan. It's a wet, cold Saturday afternoon today, so Chiharu and I've decided to take the kids ...

Hello again from Japan, where it's considered good manners to turn your car's headlights off while waiting at a stoplight, ...

Hello from Japan, now with 50% more volcanic eruptions than before! The big news in Japan right now is the ...

Hello again from Japan, home of the American Dog (someone must have thought a Corn Dog would sell better with ...

Hello from Japan, where even the feminine products have printed Hello Kitty on them. One thing I'm often impressed with ...

Greetings from Japan, the country with the highest per-capita number of vending machines in the world. Well, March 14 and ...

Greetings from Japan, the home of "soft cream" and "Pal Sweet Diet." Racism and bias are always bad things, and ...

Greetings from Japan, the home of Aloe yogart (one of my favorites). Well, a chapter has ended in the childhoods ...

Hello from Japan and J-List. It's a relatively warm day today, as we get the update out a few hours ...

Hello from Japan and J-List. It's a relatively warm day today, as we get the update out a few hours ...

Hello again from Japan, the Origin of the Sun (as seen from China, who thought up the name). The convenience ...

Hello from a very cold and windy Japan. The temperature is well below the freezing point as the Sea of ...

Hello again, from the wild, woolly land of Japan, where you really can dry your body off of with one ...