Just Another Day in Japan

As noted in the comments on the YouTube page for this video, I think it's pretty easy to get this commercial without understanding any...

It's a little difficult to imagine how hard it must have been to study Japanese, or any other language, years or even decades ago. These...

Relatively early on during my time in Japan, I bought a used bicycle. It wound up faithfully serving me for my three years, but naturally I ...

Another English Japanese word that took me by surprise was the term 「ハイタッチ」. Apparently Japanese is the only language that uses the expressi...

One occurrence I find particularly interesting is how there are words in each language that have a variety of different meanings. I've n...

If you frequent Japanese message boards or comment sections, or perhaps follow some Japanese Twitter accounts or have some J Facebook friend...

It's turning out to be a very light month on posting - sorry about that. Things have been busy with work and some ESL teaching I've ...

If you've ever heard the Japanese pronunciation of "Bach" and you're anything like me, you've probably scratched your ...

So recently we got kind of screwed over by Dell in our office. I won't go into boring detail, but suffice it to say Amazon.com took care...