Makoto as a baby was so quiet we were worried*; we had heard the rumor babies were supposed to cry after all.
When he was about a month old, Yumi placed him on a pillow, she turned around, he rolled off, and all he said was a light, “aau.” (that’s a lowercase ‘aau’)  She was so [...]

I  just received an email from someone asking a question on Youtube. Not unusual but he went to the trouble of translating his English thoughts into Japanese using… an online translator.
I won’t copy all what he wrote–since it was a private message (and a good question)–but the first line in the Japanese ‘translation’ was screaming, [...]

Mommy was firmly on the side of the korokke.
A korokke is,  according to my dictionary,  a  croquette.   If that was as helpful to you as it was to me, let me just say it is a “deep fried something.” That something can be potatoes or sweet potatoes or other potato-like things.
Makoto wanted his favorite [...]

Actually it is for any model in the GP or SP series and it is good until January 14th, 2009.
1) Register your dictionary here.
You have to enter the serial number on the back of the dictionary, your email, a password, and whether you want emails from Casio. Optional are your prefecture, Male or Female, Age, [...]

I received an email from someone asking how to add furigana (small hiragana) over Japanese text on her computer.  I mentioned I do it with Word using the Phonetic Guide.  She only had Works and Works doesn’t appear to have the Phonetic Guide.
For those who do not want to spend a few hundred dollars to [...]

Yumi just informed me we are having タイ風カレー taifuu kare- again today.  It was delicious before and I’m looking forward to having it again, but now Yumi has taken to call it “Hurricane Curry.”

I’m not sure if the correct terminology is a Media Center TV or a PC Driven Media Player (on your TV) or…, but I would like to basically have all my DVDs and CDs on a harddrive and access them with a remote through a menu on my TV.
My requirements are:

A nice clean GUI
Allows me [...]

…This morning

I haven’t posted much here, because… we are upgrading TJP (again).
Back in January (of 2008) we completed an ‘upgrade’ of The Japanese Page. We are working hard on doing another upgrade now.
Some people have asked why I would want to essentially make a TJP 3.0 so soon after TJP 2.0. The January update [...]

Many years ago, I taught English at several elementary and junior high schools in Japan. Often the children would ask questions about living in America. One of the biggest 「うそ！」 (uso! - You’re kidding!) responses I ever got was when I explained, “in most American houses even the toilet has air conditioning.”
Central [...]