My So-Called Japanese Life

One of the best books I use for teaching private lessons is called " Impact Issues ". Each lesson contains a story meant to open u...

There are many times when I'm watching something and the thought occurs to me that I've just seen or heard something that I'd re...

Image pinched from the Wikipedia entry on an especially weak episode of the Simpsons. It's no secret that the Simpsons has been on a sl...

Note that the only screenshot (as opposed to a promotional photo) on the Fox Japan site for House is one with an Asian patient. House has be...

This image pinched from the BBC's Japanorama site. A picture is worth a thousand words. Unfortunately, sometimes those words are wrong. ...

(Note: This saga updated at the end) You often hear people talk about service in Japan in glowing terms and act as though the Japanese will ...

My husband and I have been using a relatively slow ADSL (NTT FLETS) connection for quite some time. It is 1.5 Mbps which has been just fine ...

logo pinched from the Discovery Channel's site Earlier today I was watching a Discovery Channel series called "A Haunting" whi...

Last night, I was flipping through channels looking for something interesting and found myself on the Japanese Cartoon Network. It's sim...

...because I have watched Beverly Hills 90210 ." Believe it or not, quite a few students have said this to me. My reaction is somewhere...

Back before DVD standards were settled upon, my husband and I had to make a decision about what region code we were going to accumulate a co...

"frow him to the froor vewy wough-wy, centuwion" I don't watch much Japanese T.V. unless you count snippets on YouTube posted ...