I was watching Sense of Japan on my local station carrying NHK World, and the topic of the show was 中元 and 歳暮. It got me thinking about how little foreigners/students are taught ab …

In my studies of Japanese, one of the least taught things outside of slang and different subgroups are the principles of Japanese society that regulate each and every one of their …

One of the biggest cultural contrasts I notice about Japanese and American society is the attitude towards families taking baths together(specifically the cleaning up your kid port …

I was talking to a few of my Japanese student friends about this, and they told the first thing they should know is how to get around town, order food and other such things, with s …