Tag: vacation

Hello again from San Diego. We're about top pile into the J-List truck and start our drive to Phoenix, Arizona, ...

Hello from exciting Las Vegas, where I've come for a short vacation with Mrs. J-List and our kids. While I'm ...

I'm enjoying my mini-vacation with my kids through the Japanese Alps, about 100 km north of Nagoya. We trekked through ...

One of the fun things about science-fiction stories involving the future is comparing the predictions they make about events that ...

Hello again from J-List. I've taken a few days off for a brief vacation with Mrs. J-List to Las Vegas, ...

One of the most charming shows to come along in a while is Kin'iro Mosaic (Golden Mosaic), about a Japanese ...

While the United States has some amazing history under its belt, something about being from a relatively "young" country has ...

I was having trouble deciding what to write for today's post, so I decided to ask J-List's Facebook and Twitter ...

You learn a lot about the Japanese people, living in Japan. Most Japanese, for example, become extremely red in the ...

Japan is having its "Obon" Buddhist holidays right now, a solemn time when the spirits of deceased family members are ...

I've been having lots of fun with my daughter, taking in the sights of South Florida before arriving up in ...

I'm taking another brief vacation, this time journeying to the sunny state of Florida, USA, with my daughter. In addition ...

I'm having a bit of a vacation after the hard work of the Phoenix Comicon, relaxing in Las Vegas with ...

My family and I are back from our trip to the island of Cebu in the Philippines. We had a ...

Hello and ake-ome to all of us from Japan. This is a fairly recent slang way to say 明けましておめでとう akemashite ...

The Japanese are big fans of traveling abroad, and there are hundreds of travel agencies that provide cheap package tours ...

Japan is a wonderful country full of great people and amazing culture. One thing it's not, however, is a land ...

Mrs. J-List and I had fun in Las Vegas, relaxing by the pool and turning off our brains for long ...

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

One subject I write about a lot is the great interest the Japanese seem to take in what foreigners visiting ...

Two important concepts related to Japan are 建前 tatemae (tah-teh-mah-eh) and 本音 honne (hon-neh), which essentially mean "the facade or ...

Selamat pagi! That's 'good morning' in Malay and Indonesian, and a Nichijou reference, in case you didn't catch that series. ...

Well, we've come to the end of another year. 2012 was a great year for us at J-List, with lots ...

Anime, of course, is a collection of fun memes which continually build on story and character concepts established in previous ...