I saw another list of budo virtues today. These lists always include things like strength, loyalty, righteousness, knowledge, honesty, and ...

One mistake I’m beginning to get over, is thinking that proverbs I hear in the dojo are not general to Japanese culture, but are somehow s...

For a lot of people outside Japan, Japanese reishiki  or etiquette seems quite heavy, stylized and empty. There is so much of it in Japanes...

I was reading a piece about Emily Post , the great master of etiquette, and the profound effect her book, Etiquette: In Society, in Busin...