Posted in Daily Life, Modern Culture, People, Traditional Culture, tagged family customs, good daughters, japan on July 16, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Several guys I work with have married their wives in their home countries but have come to Nippon to live indefinitely. They all give the same reason for leaving their jobs and starting a new adventure here in Nippon: their wives have aging parents and they want to help out with the family business or [...]
Posted in Daily Life, Modern Culture, People, Trivia, tagged carbon footprint, japan, recycling, save the earth on July 10, 2008 | 8 Comments »
The last time I checked, I was very green. By green, I mean earth-friendly; mostly because of the rules and stuff I have to follow because I live in Japan.
My carbon footprint, according to this calculator, is small. My trips home and occasional travels are the only factors that show a significant increase in my [...]
Posted in Daily Life, People, Trivia, tagged foreigner in japan, japan, life in japan on April 23, 2008 | 16 Comments »
A few months ago, I blogged about still being a Gaijin in Japan, in this post: Take the Gaijin Test. Recently, I have come to realize I’ve been doing a lot of things I swore I’d never do, and which I poked fun at in the first few months/years I’d been in Japan. Embarrassing [...]
Posted in Daily Life, Food, Trivia on April 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Yakitori(焼き鳥), which is literally grilled bird, is Japanese chicken barbecue on skewers. Over the last few weekends, I’ve been subsisting on a diet of Yakitori and Ramune. Festival stalls often sell Yakitori and other Kushiyaki (串焼き, skewered food). Every time I think of Yakitori, though, I remember this one time when I went to a [...]
Posted in Daily Life, Modern Culture, People, Trivia, tagged japan, ufo catcher on March 30, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I have a dozen of stories about UFO Catchers… mostly involving people I know who are addicted to them. I’m not that into them myself, but I’m sure if I played it often enough, I could quickly get drawn into the dark side of UFO Catching.
UFO Catchers aren’t a new thing in Japan. In fact, [...]
Posted in Daily Life, Modern Culture, People, tagged japan, japanese, punctual, time on March 16, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I met up with two Japanese friends today. Usually when I meet up with friends, at least one of us is late. It is very common for us to send and/or receive a message saying something like “Gonna be 20 minutes late… I missed my train… sorry!” But I guess this ruins everyone’s perception that [...]
Posted in Daily Life, Modern Culture, People, tagged future dreams, government worker, japan, salaryman on February 28, 2008 | 7 Comments »
The average Japanese salaryman does work and almost nothing else. And the average Japanese government worker does almost nothing. This is a very common notion that most Japanese people have. The average working man in Japan begins working straight after graduation, and serves the same company for about 40 years, slowly working his way [...]
Posted in Daily Life, Events, Festivals, People, Travel, tagged doing things alone, hitorigurashi, japan, living alone on February 25, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I’ve lived alone in Japan for almost five years now. I shop by myself, I go to events by myself and I travel by myself. I have a lot of friends but a lot are like me, people who live alone and/or enjoy their own company. Oftentimes, I get together with a few of them, [...]
Posted in Daily Life, Modern Culture, People, tagged friendship, honne, japan, tatemae on February 24, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I know a lot of foreigners who complain they lack Japanese friends. Japanese people seeking friendship with foreigners without the ulterior motive of free English classes are rare gems. It is rarer still to find Japanese friends who will accept you. I’m not sure that it really has something to do with us, though.
A few [...]
Posted in Daily Life, People, tagged japan, polite, politeness on February 19, 2008 | 4 Comments »
This morning while I was running to catch the train, my cellphone fell out of my pocket and while trying to hold on to my bag to swipe down and pick up my phone, my new ballet flats went slippery on me and I fell on a knee while my other foot slid in the [...]
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