Just Another Day in Japan

One interesting byproduct of being multilingual (or perhaps of just being at a certain point in your language studies) is that sometimes...

Is that a thing? Why not?

蟻が十匹 ありがじゅうひき 10 Ants 十 = 「じゅう」; 「とお」 蟻が十 ありがとう Thank you Got it? Image Source

Look at that - working on my click-bait titles! Maybe I've been seeing too many Tofugu headlines in my social media feeds (I kid). Rec...

I just learned a cool J-go turn of phrase from one of my colleagues, who came in from his smoking break to inform me that it was flurrying o...

In the US, we've had some memorable marketing campaigns for certain generic foods or beverages."Got milk"" and "Beh...

Generally I get my J-gaming fix from Kairosoft mobile games , which pop out of the localization engine onto our shores every few months. I s...

They say a good sign of fluency is being able to read a newspaper in a foreign language. This might be more true in a language where read...

I feel the Japanness draining away, slowly. That's the way of things, I suppose. You come back home, you retain some connections, you k...

Among the first CDs I owned as a kid was one of Weird Al's albums. I believe it was Bad Hair Day , but who knows? In a pretty shor...