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Japan and The Holiday Season: Reserve Your New Years Cards and Fried Chicken
In Japanese to English dictionaries, definitions of "yoyaku" include reservation, appointment, booking, subscription, and advanced order. Japanese communicating in English almost always use reservation, but advanced order may be the most appropriate of these terms for New Years cards and fried chicken in Japan. This article will discuss why advanced orders are relevant to New Years cards and fried chicken in Japan.
The Golden Gate Bridge: The gateway to San Francisco
The Golden Gate Bridge is the oldest, longest, tallest single span bridge in the United States. The bridge is a uniquely special bridge because of age and construction. Plus from the bridge, you can see Alcatraz and Angel Island, which makes it even more special. Right? What we're saying is true, right?
Japan Christmas: From Zagmuk in Mesopotamia to Colonel Sanders
This article discusses Christmas in Japan. December 25 has been a holiday going back to at least the Mesopotamian festival of Zagmuk. Now, thousands of years and thousands of miles later, Japan has its own form of Christmas, shaped by some of the old aspects and some new ones: Kentucky Fried Chicken and Fujiya Food Service Co., Ltd. These two corporations, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Fujiya, have helped to shape modern Christmas in Japan.
Teaching Japanese Students About Alternative American Lifestyles
In Japan, students are taught grammar and vocabulary in much the same way as Americans generations ago were taught Latin. Many students who want to learn to communicate in English go outside the normal school system to study languages in private language schools. In this article, we present one topic that we have found of interest to students in Japan who want to practice their English: alternative American lifestyles.
Japan: Teaching English as a Living Language
In Japan, students are taught grammar and vocabulary in much the same way as Americans generations ago were taught Latin. Many students who want to learn to communicate in English go outside the normal school system to study languages in private language schools. In this article, we present one topic that we have found of interest to students in Japan who want to practice their English: alternative American lifestyles.
Tips for improving your life as an expatriate in Japan
Japan is an awesome country to live in. In this article, we would like to present our top six tips for living in Japan so you can get the most out of your expatriate experience.
Tanabata: The Story of Orihime and Hikoboshi
Much of what we see and experience in Japan has roots in China and farther West to India over the past thousands of years. These roots are the same as the roots and heritage of Western civilization arriving in America after a journey of thousands of years from ancient Greece and Rome across Europe to North America. This article discusses Tanabata, the Japanese Star Festival, an example of this Japanese borrowing from China.
The Kotatsu: A Warm Cave in Japan
A kotatsu kept me warm my first winter in Japan, while bringing me back to my childhood of making caves in the winter. Many apartments in Japan come without heating. The kotatsu, a table with a heat lamp underneath, is one answer. Due to high electric prices, lack of proper insulation, and building codes and laws not requiring heating, people turn to devices like the kotatsu.
No hands: Taking your shoes on and off
Fred's mother visits Fred in Japan and is fascinated by people taking their shoes on and off without using their hands. Even little children seem to do it effortlessly with shoes that have laces. When we live abroad, we can forget what we have adapted to. When visitors comes, we get a fresh look.
On language abuse: English, Japanese, and other languages
This article details the travails of Fred as he suffers through a Canadian woman abusing the Japanese language and discusses how Westerners abuse Japanese, Japanese abuse English, and people like to announce the languages they can speak.
What is your job?
While Americans generally identify the most strongly with what they do, many Japanese tend to identify more with the organization they work for. This article discusses an American, meeting with a Japanese, who tries to ask what the Japanese does.
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