Reading and blogging about Japan, of course!

Recent questions that I have kind of answered on JapanExplained (after a long hiatus) include:

– Why would anyone coat a park in grey dust?

– Why do Japanese companies pay more as you age?

– Why are Japanese companies so obsessed with quality?

– Why do the Japanese not speak better English? 2nd attempt

– Why is the foreign source still so often marked in conversational Japanese?

and

– Why are the Japanese so into (real) robots?