Ice skating in Japan, like many other countries including the US, is a really important Olympic sport to the country. Japan prides itself on their performance at the Olympic Games in all sports. But in ice skating the pressure can even be larger. The little girls that perform have pressure put on them that even [...]

When many people think electronic gadgets they think the US, and rightfully so. We in this country love our cell phones and video games. But in Japan things are no different. In fact there is a growing concern there about people that become totally obsessed with new technologies, especially video games. Video gaming has become [...]

So what is your first thought when you hear someone say Japan or Japanese. What comes into your head as the first representative thought on this country when someone mentions it? For many people they may simply think cars. Japan has been a world leader in automobile technologies. Toyota started there and they have been [...]

Certainly unless you were there and you were involved in the attacks, how would you know? It most certainly would be very difficult. To many it seems that no doubt the Japanese attacked the US and thrust us into World War II. To many historians and many average Americans, this is what basically happened. But [...]

The Japanese government and their new Prime Minister will have some very tough times ahead of them. Like our economy theirs is struggling also. The newly elected Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama made some pretty steep promises during his election bid. This is no shock to us nor is it to their people that the people [...]

The Japanese people do not live on a vast huge chunk of land similar to the US or China as an example. They live on an island chain, most of them on the main island. Being on a much smaller piece of land and having a large population means that they more than likely are [...]

Certainly Japan’s economy is similar to ours in ways, but in some ways it is not. Here is an interesting article on Hyundai’s decision to pull out of the Japanese market. They are a very good car company and have grown in popularity over the years. But it is not always that easy to compete [...]