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This Sunday marks the first anniversary of the terrible 9.0 earthquake and tsunamis which caused so much pain and loss ...

My Japanese wife and I have given a special gift to our children, making sure they grew up bilingual in ...

The current anime season in Japan continues to impress with its great lineup, which forces me to reschedule other activities ...

There's no doubt about it: living in a foreign country for many years will change a person, something my father ...

Today is a holiday in Japan, kinro kansha no hi or Labor Thanksgiving Day. While it sounds like a combination ...

If you've listened to spoken Japanese at all you've probably heard the word desu, often pronounced with the last syllable ...

Being male, I am naturally perplexed by the opposite sex, but living in Japan increases my confusion even more since ...

It's funny how different smells and tastes can bring out different memories. One of the most pleasant related to summer ...

Today is a holiday in Japan: Keiro no Hi, or Respect for the Aged Day. Celebrated nationally since 1966 -- ...

Yesterday was the tenth anniversary of the terrible attacks on the World Trade Center, the sad event that, for me, ...

One theme I write about often is how important children are in Japan, and how much energy the country spends ...

Well, that was a fun weekend. We had a great time at the Twin Peaks Fest, visiting different sites from ...

Because I live outside the U.S. and only come back to visit a few times a year, it's interesting to ...

One word you learn pretty early when studying Japanese is gaman suru (gah-mahn suru) which means to endure or tolerate ...

It's funny how culture crisscrosses the globe, never stopping at such laughable things as national borders as it flows to ...

It certainly was an exciting day today, what with Japan's stunning win over the U.S. in the FIFA Women's World ...

One of the highlights of Anime Expo was having the president of famed game and anime creator Nitroplus come out ...

We're having a great time here at Anime Expo in Los Angeles, meeting fans and customers and selling lots of ...

I've made a quick hop from Japan to "Los" (as the Japanese call Los Angeles) to attend the popular E3 ...

It's time for another installment of Wacky Japanese You Already Know, featuring Japanese words that happen to have the same ...

When we went to the U.S. last month we rode the train from Los Angeles to San Diego, and this ...

J-List is happy to announce that as of today, April 1st, our popular line of English-translated Japanese visual novels, dating-sim ...

Japan's crisis continues, though things are slowly coming under control. As calm returns and companies work hard to normalize the ...

One of the joys of living in Japan is the high level of service you generally experience in restaurants and ...