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Each year in Japan, the list of who paid the most income taxes during the previous year is published in ...

Before I moved to Japan, I had a lot of preconceptions about what life would be like here, based on ...

Hello all. Had a nice weekend. A friend from Tokyo came up and we had a New Year's Party (Shinenkai, ...

Hello all. Last post of 2004. So far I'm having fun with this blog and have decided to move my ...

Before I started J-List I was an English teacher, and taught ESL to a wide range of Japanese students, from ...

When I came to Japan, I had my share of culture shock. Women in kimonos riding an ultramodern Shinkansen. Vending ...

When Icame to Japan, I had my share of culture shock. Women in kimonos riding an ultramodern Shinkansen. Vending machines ...

Hello again from Japan, the home of a car called the Toyota Ism (named after the English suffix -ism, from ...

Hello again from Japan, where staplers are known as "hotchkiss," after a company that made them back in the 19th ...

Hello again from all of us in Japan!Japan seems to be the home of the "boom" -- as each year ...

Hello again from Japan!America and Japan are very different in many ways, and the relationships between men and women reflect ...

Hello again from your friends at J-List! When foreigners visit Japan, there are many things that stand out as odd ...

Hello again from Japan, where you know you've been here too long if you can squeeze all the juice from ...

Hello again from Japan, where Velcro is known as Magic Tape. International Girl Scouts are active in Japan, as are ...

Hello again from Japan, where going to Kentucky means eating chicken and everyone thinks IT stands for "Internet technology." When ...

Hello again from all your friends in Japan! I've lived in Japan for twelve years now, and I've had some ...

Okay, here we go with Peter's Generic Information on Teaching in Japan Wherein the author give some slightly cynical information ...

My Otaku Reconsideration Portrait of an Otaky #1187by Peter R. PayneNote: the following is an article I wrote way back ...

...you keep looking for new copies of Gegege-no-kitaro and Hi-no-tori manga at the local bookstore. ...you have copies of nengajo ...

You've been in Japan Too Long when... Updated January, 2001 The following were collected from various Usenet groups, most likely ...

Greetings and salutations from your friends in Japan, at J-List! Whenever you go to live in a new country, you're ...

Hello again from Japan! When is the color blue really green? When you're in Japan. For some reason that we're ...

Hello from the world's #1 producer of vending machines, Japan. We now live next to the mayor! Over the last ...

Greetings from Japan, a country where, in the words of a wise friend of mine, You know no one is ...