You might have heard of Golden Week, Japan’s highly anticipated holiday period, when a series of often consecutive holidays occurs from the end of April to early May, allowing many Japanese people to take a week off. But have you heard of Silver Week (シルバーウィーク)? Coined in 2009, Silver Week refers to a cluster of […]
There’s only “me”, “myself” and “I” in English, but when it comes to Japanese first-person pronouns, the options are seemingly endless.
The bonodori is a spiritual dance to welcome the spirits. Every region has a local dance and a different music.
Learning the Japanese days of the week and months of the year is one of the easiest lessons that you will have. Let’s start with the days of the week.
Luckily, with a little bit of crash course, you’ll be able to understand the social cues of the art of saying thank you in Japanese.
A foreigner’s guide to Japanese honorific, humble and polite forms.
Despite all the good of convenience stores and Japanese drugstores, sometimes we just need to go to a supermarket to get all of the things we need in one go. And if you want to survive in Japan, you should know about the Japanese supermarket, because chances are, you’ll be spending a lot of time […]
When meeting a new client in Japan, one of the first things you need to do is exchange business cards, known as 名刺 (meishi). In many other countries, business cards are often seen as a formality or just a way to pass along your name, title, and company info. But in Japan, meishi exchange is […]
