Last time, I wrote about the basic ways that food in Japan is categorized based on gender. There's a strong perception in Japanese cul...

The idea of "men's dishes" and "women's dishes" is not unique to Japan. Both the US's Salon.com and the UK...

This post is the start of a four- or five-part series on the gendered marketing of food in Japan. It’s an assignment for my Japanese Pop Cul...

Reading is probably the hardest part of learning Japanese, so I thought as my last post on this blog, I'd share some strategies that hel...

On March 1st, Suzuki-san took Matt and I to go see a glass-making workshop, where we got gifts of cute little glass dragons (since it's ...

This post is going to take the form of a list because I've been terribly neglectful of this blog. And I'm not actually that sorry b...

For the birthday party I had with friends, I decided to make a reservation at a butler cafe. I was originally thinking about the butler cafe...

I just got back from a trip to Osaka and Kyoto with one of my friends, so at my family's insistence, and because it's my duty as a b...

With my eldest host sister, Arisa:  Arisa is by far my favorite. She's completely different from my host brother and sister who live in...

Saturday October 15, 10:01 PM Before we left for study abroad, Knox gave us a pre-departure manual to read. Towards the back, there ...