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Good Couples Day gets our Japanese writer thinking about international marriage differences

Katy Kelly
Apr 26, 2019
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What makes for a good couple? Our Japanese-language writer muses on her own marriage to a French husband and its notable quirks.

Europe, Japan
(COK • Feance • good couples day • international relationships • internationalism • marriage • relationships • romance • SNOJ)

30 ways people keep reacting to our born-in-America returnee Japanese writer

Casey Baseel
Apr 20, 2019

After spending his first few years living in the U.S., he’s spent the rest of his life answering the same questions over and over.

Japan, USA
(COK • internationalism • kikoku shijo • returnees • SNOJ • society)

Japanese exchange student sparks culture debate on Twitter with comment about American clothing

Dale Roll
Mar 14, 2019

How much can the way a country’s citizens dress say about that country?

Japan, USA
(American culture • COK • culture shock • exchange students • internationalism • society • studying abroad)

There’s no need to care about our staff, because they’re foreigners, says Japanese maid service

Casey Baseel
Jan 12, 2019

Vague phrasing and fuzzy logic leads to swift backlash.

Japan
(ads • culture • foreigners in Japan • housekeeping • internationalism • Japanese language • linguistics • maids • Philippines • scandal • soceity • working in Japan)

Japan’s passport is the strongest in the world, study shows

Casey Baseel
Oct 13, 2018

No other travel document opens as many doors around the world as Japan’s passport just edges the number-tow nation.

Global, Japan
(internationalism • passports • society • travel)

Japanese man complains about foreign languages on Tokyo train, Twitter drowns him in kindness

Casey Baseel
Aug 22, 2018

”This is Japan, you know?” he asks, but others want to show him the ways of the modern world.

Global, Japan
(COK • internationalism • language • linguistics • society • trains • travel)

Five things that shock Japanese people living abroad

Richard Simmonds
Sep 12, 2017

Travel-broadened Japanese Twitter users share their stories of culture shock and pleasant surprises.

Japan
(culture • culture shock • internationalism • society)

The woman on the “I’m glad I’m Japanese” posters spotted in Kyoto? She’s actually Chinese

Casey Baseel
May 11, 2017

Turns out the controversial posters aren’t quite as nationalistic as their creators likely intended them to be.

China, Japan
(controversy • discrimination • internationalism • Kyoto • travel)

Kimono Project is creating a different kimono to represent every country on Earth【Photos】

Casey Baseel
May 9, 2017

Crowdfunding campaign opens for Japanese international friendship initiative’s gorgeous designs.

Global, Japan
(beautiful • culture • fashion • internationalism • kimono)

“I’m glad I’m Japanese” posters in Kyoto spark outrage among Japanese Twitter users

Casey Baseel
May 3, 2017

Mysterious posters draw concerned comments about the insensitive mentality of their anonymous creators.

Japan
(controversy • discrimination • internationalism • Kyoto • travel)

Emperors, anime icons, and porn stars show up in six-nation survey of most famous Japanese people

Casey Baseel
Apr 27, 2017

Respondents in the U.S., China, and four other countries’ top 10 answers included Pokémon, military leaders, and adult film actresses.

Europe, Japan, Korea, SE Asia, USA
(anime • celebrities • culture • Hayao Miyazaki • history • internationalism • manga • Pikachu • society • Sola Aoi • survey)

Japanese man extends heart, covers eyes for blindfolded free hug experiment in China 【Video】

Casey Baseel
Jun 10, 2016

Moving results offer hope for improved relations between the two nations.

China, Japan, Korea
(experiment • Free Hugs • internationalism • moving • social experiment • touching • video)

Five Japanese misconceptions about foreign male/Japanese female couples

Mike
Jan 13, 2016

Japanese blogger and internationalist Madame Riri explores five prejudices and misconceptions foreign male-Japanese female couples experience in Japan.

Japan
(culture • dating • internationalism • Madam Riri • romance • society)

Five ways college life is different in Japan and the United States

Casey Baseel
Dec 4, 2015

From fashion to extracurricular activities, the lives of an American colleges students are an ocean apart from their counterparts in Japan.

Japan, USA
(colleges • culture • education • fashion • internationalism • universities)

University lecturer calls out his lazy Japanese students, praises his hard-working Chinese ones

Casey Baseel
Oct 14, 2015

Japan places a tremendous importance on education. Many would even argue that studiousness is part of Japan’s national character, and diligent students are seen as source of pride and an object of respect in Japanese society.

Nevertheless, a lecturer at one of Japan’s renowned universities is calling out the lazy Japanese youths he says he encounters in his classes, while praising his hard-working Chinese and Southeast Asian pupils.

Japan
(college • education • exchange students • internationalism • youth)

We ask Japanese people about their favorite aspects of eight different cultures

Audrey Akcasu
Oct 10, 2015

We often hear about foreigners’ favorite parts of Japanese culture, like trains running on time and unparalleled customer service, but it’s not every day that we hear from Japanese people about their favorite parts of foreign cultures.

With that in mind, one of RocketNews24’s Japanese-language writers decided to interview a few well-traveled Japanese people and hear some of their favorite aspects of the different cultures they’ve experienced and how they compare to their own.

Global, Japan
(culture • internationalism • opinion • travel)

50 things our Japanese reporter learned while driving in the U.S.

Casey Baseel
Jun 30, 2015

Our Japanese-language reporter Go recently returned from a trip to the U.S. While there, he hunted for aliens and sampled the local cuisine, but mostly what he did was drive.

While Japan is filled with winding mountain passes that make for enjoyable drives, the wide-open American road has an appeal all its own. After days of barreling down the highways of the southwest, Go came back to Japan with these 50 experiences he had driving in the U.S.

Japan, USA
(cars • driving • funny • GO • internationalism • travel)

Four areas in which Japan needs to improve if it wants to attract more overseas travelers

Casey Baseel
Jun 27, 2015

Japan’s National Tourist Organization recently released its statistics on the number of overseas travelers who visited in the country in 2014, and we’re proud to say that 13,413,467 of you came to visit (though we’re also a little hurt that so few of you called us up to get ramen while you were here). That number represents almost a 30-percent increase from the number of foreign tourists Japan received in 2013, and a whopping 60-percent jump compared to 2012.

Still, Japan only ranks 27th globally in its ability to draw travelers from abroad, making it eighth in Asia, behind world-number 22 Korea and number four China.

So what’s holding Japan back from becoming an even more popular international travel destination? RocketNews24’s non-Japanese staff put our heads together, and after getting over the initial pain from our foreheads violently colliding, came up with the following list of areas Japan could do better in that foreign travelers would definitely appreciate.

Global, Japan
(culture • hotels • internationalism • language • restaurants • travel)

The changing face of Tokyo’s Shin-Okubo and the decline of Japan’s biggest Korea Town

KK Miller
Jun 11, 2015

If you are looking for some Korean food while in Tokyo, the place to go is Shin-Okubo. The famed “Korea Town” in the middle of the metropolitan Tokyo area has served as a gathering place for fans of Korean TV dramas, K-pop music and Korean cuisine. Sadly, though, what was once was a bustling consumer zone for people who loved all things Korean, though, has seen its fortunes decline in recent years, and there are a number of theories as to why.

Japan, Korea
(internationalism • kenkan • Korea Town • Shin-Okubo • Tokyo)

Blogger offers four pieces of advice for foreign women looking for love with a Japanese guy

Casey Baseel
Dec 19, 2014

Blogger Madame Riri often writes about her experiences as a Japanese woman in an international relationship who’s spent a considerable amount of time living abroad. Recently, though, she took a look at women in the opposite situation.

Sifting through the writings of Grace Buchele Mineta, a Texas-born expat married to a Japanese man and living in Japan since three years ago, Madame Riri pulled out four pieces of advice for non-Japanese women in or looking for a romantic relationship with a Japanese man in Japan.