Tag: USA

Yesterday was my birthday, so I went on something called a "drinkabout" with some local friends, essentially a pub crawl ...

Mrs. J-List has joined me in San Diego, and I've spent a few days taking her around doing "San Diego-ey" ...

Even before my wife and I became parents, we knew we wanted to give our children the gift of bilingualism. ...

My wife and I recently made the decision to "reform" our house, which is what the Japanese call remodeling for ...

Japan has a highly developed entertainment world composed of thousands of professional actors, singers, idols, comedians, "announcers" (aka newscasters) and ...

I've been a student of Japanese since that first day in 1987 when I started Higurashi-sensei's class at SDSU. (There ...

Sometimes I like to pick random Japanese historical figures and write about them. Like Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the second of Japan's ...

Forming stereotypes about others is part of being human, and sometimes it's a fun subject to explore. Since Westerners make ...

Thursday is Thanksgiving, the second most important American holiday, a day for spending time with family and friends and giving ...

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

Stereotypes are bad because they cause us to make assumptions about people from other countries before we've gotten to know ...

The Japanese have a unique relationship with the United States, and many are fascinated with our culture, from Hollywood to ...

It's funny how smell has the power to capture memories like nothing else. Every summer we burn Japanese mosquito coils ...

Something about living in another country can make a person think introspectively about themselves. When I started J-List back in ...

One of the interesting aspects of Japan is that it's one of the most pro-American countries on the planet, with ...

Hello again, this time from Boston. My son and I have completed our East Coast tour and are heading back ...

My son has flown over from Japan to relax in San Diego and practice his English before heading back east ...

Wednesday marked Independence Day in the U.S., and since Anime Expo was kind enough to end before the holiday this ...

Whenever I'm back in the U.S. I like to observe how Asian food and culture is presented, since it's common ...

Recently an American friend of mine who works as a professor at a Japanese university told me he bought a ...

One of the benefits of living outside the United States is not having to endure the endless bombardment of political ...

Japan is a country with no guns at all...or so I thought when I arrived here in 1991, and learned ...

One thing I've learned about the Japanese is, they love it when one of their number attains international fame. From ...

Last time I mentioned the words uchi and soto, meaning in-group and out-group, which is a favorite topic of Japan ...