Tag Archives: Culture
Orange Days
Plot
Kai Yuuki (Satoshi Tsumabuki) is in his senior year at university studying social welfare psychology. At present, he is in the middle of job-hunting season. He is finding it difficult with no job offers so far. One day, he meets a girl who is playing violin in the campus. She is Sae Hagio (Kou Shibasaki). [...]
10 Tips for a Successful Japanese Language Panel
Doing a panel at a con can be a bit stressful if it is your first one, heck anywhere if it is your first. So here are a few tips to help with doing a panel on Japanese language if you have never done one before or just want to improve.
1) Plan – This is [...]
Top 10 Japanese Names
Japan has a lot of family names and it kind of makes it hard to remember names because I haven’t grown up with them. However, it is important to start learning names to better remember names and get along using the language. The Japan Times released an article with the top 100 most common family [...]
Who are the Ainu?
The Ainu are considered the natives to Japan, similar to Native Americans being the original peoples to the United States. They are actually very similar to the Native Americans because their culture/economy was based around farming, hunting, fishing and gathering; along with having their own language, culture, and religious distinctions.
The Ainu were originally concentrated throughout [...]
74 Year Old Japanese Man Wins Bodybuilding Competition
And you thought all old people sat in wheelchairs all day. This is interesting and proves something I have thought and consider true. No matter the age if you take care of yourself you can do anything you want.
Japanese weightlifter Tsutomu Tosuka won first place in the seniours above 70 category in the 21st anneversary [...]
Boy Scouts in Japan
The title is a bit misleading, but serves our purposes as a starting point. First I want to bring up that I am an Eagle Scout in the “Boy Scouts of America” and strongly believe in the values, skills and life lessons I have learned in Boy Scouts having been in it for almost 20 [...]
Links Around Town 5
Culture
Misunderstanding
Pop Culture
‘Manga’: heart of pop culture
Coffee Japan’s favorite soft drink
Why Japanese Love Watching Celebs Eating
Man Stole for Money to Enjoy a Few Things
Books
100 Books for Understanding Contemporary Japan
Travel
Getting Around in Japan
Riding the Rail
Have you seen these signs?
Tokyos Rush Hour Rudeness
The Three Most Scenic Spots in Japan
Foreign Relations
Nihonjin I Presume
The Gaijin Debate
Not Fitting In In Japan
No [...]
Links Around Town 4
Here are some more interesting links around the English/Japanese bloggosphere. Most of the links I try to get are to help better understand the culture in Japan as understanding the culture is a good way to understand the language. I only make these posts when I find 20 links I think are more interesting [...]
Sapparo TV Tower
History
The TV Tower was built in 1957 and cost 170 Million Yen. (Approximately 1,700,000 USD) It is used as a repeater which is an antenna that receives a signal boosts it and pushes it back out to another area. It isn’t a main broadcast tower.
The signature digital clocks on all 4 sides were introduced [...]
Links Around Town – 3
Here are some more interesting links around the English/Japanese bloggosphere. Most of the links I try to get are to help better understand the culture in Japan as understanding the culture is a good way to understand the language. I only make these posts when I find 20 links I think are more interesting than [...]
