Posted in Events, Festivals, News, tagged blooming, cherry blossoms, japan on March 26, 2008 | No Comments »
Yesterday, I took a walk and saw that the Cherry Blossom Trees near my house were turning pink! A few flowers were blooming. It just made me really happy. It looks like this weekend will be great for a Hanami party!
Check out the Live Webcams on Live Japan for more images of Sakura Blooming!
Posted in News, tagged blogging, contest, japan on March 19, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Some time last month, I joined a contest that Evan Pike from Japan Photo Guide was sponsoring. The contest rules stipulated that for adding Japan Photo Guide, Japan Daily Photo, Blogs on Japan, or Photography of Evan Pike to your blogroll, you get raffle tickets. I’d already had Japan Photo Guide in my blogroll but [...]
Posted in Daily Life, Modern Culture, News, People, tagged bicycle courtesy, bicycle laws, japan on February 16, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Friends in Japan tell me that it’s really rude to use my bicycle bell. I always ask them what else I’m supposed to do make people - especially groups of people - move to the side when I’m cycling… I mean, I could very slowly cycle around them but then I’d still be risking hitting [...]
Posted in History, Modern Culture, News, People, tagged japan, beauty, small face, long legs, huge eyes, fashion, boya, pretty men on February 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Small face, long legs, and a tiny, tiny waist. This is how most Japanese women would like to look and how Japanese men want women to look. It’s everywhere from their anime to their ads for beauty products, and oh yeah, did I forget to mention the dyed hair and the huge eyes? There’s [...]
Posted in Daily Life, Language, News, tagged japan, japanese competence, japanese proficiency, japanese、日本語, learn japanese, 日本語能力 on January 30, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Recently on the news, there have been reports about requiring Japanese ability for certain visas. I just read today that the law could be passed pretty soon. As I am an avid fan of Japanese, I have no problems with this new law, in fact, I welcome it wholeheartedly. The reason I do, is simply [...]
Posted in News, People, Trivia, tagged common names, first names, japan, japanese names, last names, popular names, surnames on December 16, 2007 | 4 Comments »
A few years ago, I went to a fireworks festival somewhere near Tokyo. Around noon that day, my friends and I had to go to the viewing site and set up a mat… I found this odd because I hadn’t thought at that time that one could actually “reserve” a viewing area during a festival. [...]
Posted in Books, Language, News, tagged 2007 kanji of the year, fake, japan, kanji, kanji kentei, kanji of the year, kanken, self-study kanji books, 偽, 勉強, 漢字, 漢字検定, 漢検 on December 13, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I like studying Kanji. It reminds me of my college drawing class, where we had to balance letterings and drawings, make them fit into boxes and stuff. When I started to learn Japanese, my teacher told me that if I wanted to be respected by the Japanese, I had to write Kanji (and Hiragana and [...]
Posted in Daily Life, Language, Modern Culture, News, People, tagged blogging, japan, japanese bloggers on December 11, 2007 | 10 Comments »
I have a mixi account. I don’t have a lot of contacts but I blog there nearly everyday, about random stuff mostly but I use it mainly to practice my Japanese writing. I use a nickname and I use an avatar for a picture. Nothing personal is ever published, I get feedback from my Japanese [...]
Posted in Daily Life, Food, News, People, Traditional Culture, tagged Answers, fresh food, gardens, japan, Notes, stealing food, vegetables on November 7, 2007 | No Comments »
While a lot of Japanese people have chosen to grow Western-style gardens - those with flowers and shrubs - the majority still do keep Japanese gardens. Out front they have their lanterns and green conical-shaped bushes, and at back, they have their vegetable gardens.
A friend of mine said that in the olden days, Japanese households [...]
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