Tag: vending machines

One question I'm interested in is, what happens inside our brains when we decide we love Indian naan bread, or ...

We're all human, and are naturally susceptible to having partially incorrect stereotypes about a far-off country like Japan. As I ...

I have some odd obsessions. One is that I love hunting down and watching the movies that were released in ...

J-List will be at the San Diego Comic-Con this year in booth 4929, in the "Anime Alley" part of the ...

J-List is currently attending Anime Expo this year at booth 1319. We hope you'll come by our booth and check ...

It's fun to analyze the impressions foreigners have of Japan when they first arrive in the country. The surprise at ...

A very warm Makise Kurisumasu to everyone! We hope you're having a wonderful special day today, wherever you are in ...

One thing about the Japanese is that they take their kawaii very seriously, and one area you can see this ...

Foreigners living in Japan know that whenever there's an earthquake in any corner of the country, we'll get concerned calls ...

I've made the hop from Japan to San Diego in preparation for the summer anime conventions. As usual it's great ...

J-List has a popular Facebook page, and today I decided to do another open post, asking readers to list any ...

Last weekend we took a drive to Tokyo to set up my son's apartment for university. (Cue the Toy Story ...

There are certain positive aspects of living in Japan, including toasty kotatsu heater tables, Japanese festivals, and beer vending machines. ...

When I came to Japan back in 1991, Terminator 2: Judgment Day was playing in theaters, the first George Bush ...

Over the weekend I went driving in the mountains of Gunma, and stopped at a P.A., which is a Japanese ...

One reason I like studying a foreign language like Japanese is the way it teaches you about your own brain, ...

All languages use onomatopoeia, words based on sounds, and some examples in English are bark, oink, crash, click, snap, clap, ...

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

One of the more exotic aspects of Japan are its "love hotels," private hotels that couples can go to in ...

One thing I had to get used to as an American living in Japan was how British things could be ...

While it's generally fun to be a foreigner living in Japan -- the people are nice, the sushi is cheap ...

Winter is here, and although this has been a relatively mild one so far, any winter is a cold when ...

The Japanese are ahead of the U.S. in several key areas, including the availability of square watermelons and taxis with ...

If you go to Japan, you'll see many things there. Beautiful temples and shrines and sakura trees. Vending machines that ...