| 8:50am | On Food Culture and Slurping Sounds | | | | Sometimes there are some interesting differences between East and West that can surprise you. I wrote recently that you're actually expected to make loud slurping noises when eating any kind of Japanese soba or udon noodles, and if you don't make these noises you might get amused comments about how quietly... |
| 8:50am | Brain Death Update in Japan | | | | Japan has two health insurance systems: shakai hoken (best translatable as "society-person insurance") which covers employees in larger companies, and kokumin hoken or "citizen's insurance," available to employees of smaller companies as well as the self-employed. Each system requires monthly premiums... |
| 8:49am | Cool Products Monday, June 29, 2009 | | | | Here are today's "really cool products" that I've picked out for you, out of the 30+ new items we've added to the J-List and JBOX.com sites today. Note that some products may be "not safe for work" but that all links will allow you to redirect yourself either to the J-List or JBOX.com websites. To see... | | |
| 11:03am | HD Video Reviews from J-List! | | | | J-List now publishes video reviews of our products on YouTube, via the new J-List video channel. Since we want you to be able to see our awesome products in the highest video quality possible, all our reviews are published in HD, which you can view by clicking our link to the video from the J-List product... |
| 11:02am | Do Native English Speakers Make Mistakes? | | | | Last night my son needed a hand with an English essay he was writing about the different kinds of engineering careers that exist. As I was helping him, typing out some of his ideas since I'm a fast typist, I accidentally misspelled some words, which caused the word processor to underline the errors with... |
| 11:01am | Positive and Negative Foreigners in Japan | | | | There are, of course, many kinds of foreigners living in Japan, from English teachers to engineers to web designers and Brazilians working a dekasegi job to earn money for a few years before they return home. While everyone must decide for themselves how they feel about Japan --a country both extremely... | | |
| 11:00am | The Most Famous Train Line in Japan | | | | One of the more enjoyable aspects of getting used to life in Japan, at least coming from California, is the train culture. Trains run everywhere here, and they're very convenient to ride. While most people would need a car in the more rural areas like where J-List is located, anyone living in a major... |
| 10:57am | Cool Products Friday, June 26, 2009 | | | | Here are today's "really cool products" that I've picked out for you, out of the 30+ new items we've added to the J-List and JBOX.com sites today. Note that some products may be "not safe for work" but that all links will allow you to redirect yourself either to the J-List or JBOX.com websites. To see... | | |
| 10:50am | Your Environment, Japan | | | | Your environment is something you never think about until it changes: the people, things, foods, sounds and smells that surround you every day of your life. In the 18 years since I started my Great Adventure in Japan -- I remember promising to be gone just a year -- my mother has visited me several times.... |
| 10:49am | Silly Japanese Money Folding Trick | | | | There's a wacky trick that Japanese sometimes do with money: fold a 1000 yen bill so that Hideyo Noguchi, the medical researcher who helped fight yellow fever in South America and Africa, makes a sad or happy face depending on which way you look at the bill. I'll teach you how it's done so you can amaze... |
| 10:45am | Understanding Anime Lyrics | | | | Being an anime fan, I'm interested in the musical component of my hobby, the OP and ED (er, opening and ending themes) and character image songs that add so much enjoyment to a given anime or game. When I was studying Japanese at SDSU, I made a point of using Japanese songs to improve my language skills,... | | |
| 10:43am | Cool Products Wednesday, June 24, 2009 | | | | Here are today's "really cool products" that I've picked out for you, out of the 30+ new items we've added to the J-List and JBOX.com sites today. Note that some products may be "not safe for work" but that all links will allow you to redirect yourself either to the J-List or JBOX.com websites. To see... | | |
| 10:50am | The Changing Shape of Language | | | | Words are fleeting things, and their meanings are never set in stone when you're in a country like Japan. For example, the English word "attack" is used in Japanese to mean "to actively pursue a goal," and if you had your eye on a certain girl, a Japanese person might advise you to attack her, which... |
| 10:50am | Things That Suck About Living in Japan: North Korea | | | | There are many good things about living in Japan, like friendly people, a language that you can study by reading comic books, and being able to run into the convenience store with your car running without fear that it will be stolen. There are bad things, too, like being effectively illiterate until... |
| 10:49am | The "Wabi-Sabi" of Simple Things in Japan | | | | For some reason, it's easy to find yourself fascinated with the most mundane things in Japan. I have an odd obsession with train crossings here, and whenever I'm near one as a train approaches, I'm happy to roll down the car window and drink in the soothing kan-kan-kan sound the train train crossing... |
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