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Hey!!! you, NEETS, nerds, Akihabara maid-cafe frequent visitors, Youtube-link spammers, pedophilias, neo-Nazis, Yukorin enthusiasts, Gloved hitwoman manias, The Red Sox and My Dirty Smelly Sox fans, Losers who can't remember Kanji characters, Aoi Sora fans, here is the place to have a blast!!!!!
>>4 hahaha 米人さん。you are cute. I am the one who wrote about kanji brain on the last thread. I saw one movie recently (Good Shepard)and the one person said "number is like a poem. good poem sounds like mathmatics" or something. So I would say alphabet language is like a good mathmatic poem and picture language of us is like an abstract painting. (we like to express things with ambiguity).
Man i fucking love this holiday, went to spread some halloween cheer with my paintball gun on various houses. I got freaked out when i saw a police car coming my way, but it turns out they were called because someone set someones lawn on fire. Looks like i was out done again this year folks.
Ah well. Tomorrow i can always stock up on left over halloween candy stores couldnt sell at low low prices.
>>11 Of course I looked it up in my dictionaries but was not able to find it out anywhere in them. I should have made a more effort to look for it. Anyway thank you for your information.
looks like Holloween is a big event in western countries. (esp in U.S)? here, 31st of Oct is just like one of another same days. For me, my Birthday (November) and Christmas, New Year will be 3 big events from now.
This year during Halloween, some kid threw a brick through my front window, so a few of my friends and I chased him back to his house, forced our way in, and bashed him and his kid sister. It was hilarious.
>>1 Maybe one day there'll be a description for me in the opening thread. Sometimes I post Youtube links, so that'll do for now. (;´Д`)
Christmas still eclipses Hallowe'en here. Last week, they were already putting up the lighting and decorations around town, and most shops have their Christmas sections all set up already, and have done for the past month. Every year, a tree is set up by the statue of Joseph Pease, and someone 'famous' turns the lights on.
And also some sad news. The straps on one of my hats decided to break. However, this is not really so tragic, because it was easy enough to stitch up again. The clip-strap looked a bit stupid, so I replaced it with a thick shoelace. I think it matches the overall design better than the clip.
>>21 My 'ushanka' hat had a clip that either held the earflaps up, or clipped them together under the chin for extra warmth when down. It was like a neo-ushanka, except the strap was too thick and stuck up too much, making it look a bit stupid.
>>24 I think it has more to do with the place I live. It's the lowest income area of my city, so naturally is filled with stupid little turds. It's like the arsehole of the city.
:O I just read that some "gaijin" ran amok in some carriage in Japan. People are saying that most of them were drunk. They were mostly American, so I bet was embarrasing. If it was us Aussies and Poms, I'm sure it would've been done with more class. That, and we don't celebrate Halloween, so it never would have happened, lol.
I'm always amazed at Japanese people. They never seem to do anything wrong when they're drunk. Maybe they don't drink enough? People here in Sydney get really drunk in the summer. Last summer late at night I was in the city. At a busy intersection, a man pulled his pants and underwear down around his ankles and started dodging traffic.
>>31 As you might have already expected this question, why are the Brits called Poms? Does it have anything to do with apple=pomme or potato=pomme de terre in French?
I heard pom was an acronym. Australians would call British people "Prisoner of Mother England" (POME). From that, pom, or pommy came into being. Also, apparently you could get "pomegranate" to rhyme with immigrant.
>>20 Self-proclaimed Japanese movie buffs, people who collect garbage-like hats, Spoiled British aristcrats.....
Kind of difficult to come up with good one which has wits and makes people give a little chuckle. It's not a good idea to associate something with one specific person here. Maybe you should settle for the categories of Youtube-link spammers or pedophilias. :p
>>47 Hmmm. But you've been talking ill of north east england, especially new castle... Are you self-hater? And I think you are opposite to typical image of north eastern english.
Are you like people of asiya(luxurious area,almost osaka) people in osaka area? kameda family is a condensation of typical osaka image. but I think asiya people have never met or associate with kameda type. Are you like this?
>>54 A lot of people here are able to make fun of themselves. As for the north of England, I much prefer it to the south. Cities such as York and Newcastle have a lot of very old and very interesting history. However, there is much to dislike about the area. The city of Middlesbrough was recently given the title of 'worst place to live in Britain', and it is also quite near. There is a lot of trouble due to antisocial behaviour, as well as not much desiribility to live there because of surrounding industry, especially chemical works.
Perhaps I do share a similar mentality to Asiya people, but I do have friends who you might describe as Kameda types. My former girlfriend was a Kameda type, I guess, but she and her brothers were friendly and hard-working people, which is the very opposite of their parents, who were both lazy and selfish. Unfortunately, it is the lazy and selfish image that most people imagine when they think of the North, when in reality, Northerners are generally more open, friendly and hard-working than Southerners.
However, I've only really lived here for just over the second half of my life, so maybe it's because I never really grew up here that I seem different.
Middlesbrough is a bastion for BNP(British National Party),isn't it? BNP Platform is UK for white british only, right? You said earlier that you'd never met Neo Nazi type in person. Really Haven't you met BNP supportes? If you walk a few mile away from your home town, You can meet them.
>>57 I don't even want to think about that! The first time I saw and heard Wada Akiko, I thought it was a man performing as a woman. I don't really know much about her, other than being from a Korean family.
>>58 Not really a bastion, but there is some support for the BNP there. My former university is based there, but hardly anyone from Middlesbrough actually attended. Seeing the locals, though, it's hard to tell whether some of them are BNP skinheads, or just chavs with shaved heads. I've never talked to anyone who has openly admitted to being a member of the BNP.
>>57 LOL. I don't think he really knows what Kameda is like.
Kameda was ultra-stupid like officially announcing that he would do "Seppuku" or "Harakiri" if he lost the match. When he knew he had no chance, he started wrestling with the champion on the ring, and his pro licence got suspended for that. I've heard even Osaka people bash Kameda for being an idiot.
I looked up the many varied terms for British people versus Americans, and while we are known mostly as Gringos or Yankees, there are a lot of different ways to refer to people from Britain. My personal favorite is the one suppposedly used by the French during the Hundred Years War (okay it's a little out of date): les goddams I guess those Olde English soldiers had potty mouths.
>>61 Ah, I see... was taking "Kameda type" as an example of commoners. Had no idea Kameda's entire family was involved in boxing, so didn't link it to them. Thanks for the explanation!
Children don't have ecucation more than junior highschool. They got diploma, but actually skipped school many times.
Their father's ex-job is unknown(nearly jobless) and he trained their children to pratcice boxing to make them world champion. It was kind of special education but very unique and irrrational. Kamedas' success sotry owes too much its uniqueness, not their real fighting talent. their story have been somewhat staged by media and boxing gym.
They are coarse, impudent, ill-mouthed, agressive, vulgar, uneducated, stand-playing, violent,,, Did you get something? Suppose 10 time worst version of Wayne Rooney. Do you get it?
Kameda's smrear story is about anti (if not 'anti', contrast simply)modern japanese family who value sending kids to good school so get job at big corpoaration. most of poeple who are under mass media are from those modern famliy value so they were hooked byt unusualy standard of kameda family. let kids skip school and teach boxing to be world chanpions. Also the contrast of individualism that kid get private rooms and privacy and sort distance from each family member while kamedas work together and bond tight.
>>63 You mean the French or the English soldiers had foul-mouths? Another insult between French and English is the 'two-finger salute', which is a backwards peace-sign. This originated from English and Welsh longbowmen, flashing the bowstring-drawing fingers up, to show they were still able to shoot at them. It was French practice to cut off these fingers of captured archers.
George Bush (senior) once accidentally gave this sign on a visit to Australia instead of the proper peace sign.
>>65 The timezone switched from BST (British Summer-Time, daylight savings) back to GMT last Sunday, so now we're 9 hours behind, rather than 8. It's almost 6.40pm here now.
>>66 Ah, now I do understand. They are like Japanese chavs, then? The Wayne Rooney reference gave it away. Thanks again for further explaining it.
What, do they think being drunk is an excuse to be an idiot? Then don't drink in public!
from previous thread by keira. It's interesting. There is a proverb 酒の席は無礼講. This attitude is the thing I hate most. It is like "At revel unrestrained and it's forgivable to some extent" Making a fuss and (sexual) harrasement become more tolerable.
You must not take what the proverb says at face value. But there is still an atmosphere and people seem to take advantage of it.
And It's strange and interesting that foreigners in japan were making the same excuse..... Don't get me wrong. No japanese drinks and goes crazy in the (crowded) train except possibly yakuza or homeless. And I've never seen these people in the train.
The Halloween decorations -- a paper skeleton, a plastic ghost -- are still in place outside Rodney Peairs's neat brick ranch-style house near here, and a faint reddish stain is still outlined on the floor of the carport. The decorations are what drew a 16-year-old Japanese exchange student, Yoshihiro Hattori, to the house in the rural suburb of Central, and the stain is the result.
It's complicated. American culture is not easy. Even when there is a sign to welcome trick or treat, you have to be careful. Bread winner decides who is desirable. very informative. thank you. I decide to put on a mask of MACAULAY CULKIN.
>>70 That gesture seems a lot like flipping the bird, but with 2 fingers instead of 1.
My (teenage) son taught me a new expression recently: awkward turtle. You say it whenever you see or hear something embarrassing. It comes with a hand gesture too complicated to describe. Refer to: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=awkward+turtle
After reading the link, I think I understand in what situation it is used, but description of hand gesture is hard to understand. I feel like I'm an awkward turtle.
>>78 Yeah, flipping the bird is quite commonplace here too. Never heard of 'awkward turtle' before though. Don't think it'll really catch on here either...
Oh... and I'm not the Yukorin enthusiast. There just used to be lots of people who wrote (a bit creepy) stuff about Ogura Yuko who just appeared every so often. Occasionally see very similar stuff about Emma Watson too, and I guess that's a bit creepier because of her age. But at least she doesn't talk like a five year old.
There was a magpie bird dancing around in some puddles earlier, in the rain. I know I've mentioned before that it's bad luck, but forget if I mentioned how to counter the bad luck. If you see a solitary magpie, you should always face it, tip your hat, and greet it this way: "Hello, Mr. Magpie, how are you today?".
This is a video of Yuko Ogura. In the early stage of her carrer in show business, she talked like a normal 17 year old girl. After she (or her agency) set up the character, she started to talk like a 5 year old, I guess.
I'm not into her at all, but I guess after she decided to slip in the character on camera, she began to call herself Youkorin and she insist she is from Colin (Corin?) planet.
The video must break her fans' fantacy toward her into pieces. lol After watching the video, they must realize that her fart never smells like a strawberry but smells as bad as theirs or even worse.
>>81 The whole Corin thing makes her seem like a psychopath. The kind who talks quietly, trying to get no attention because she was abused as a child. But when provoked, she'll get a knife and cut someone up into little pieces. She sounds kind of normal in the first two clips, but looks like she has some kind of motor-neurone disorder with all the waving her arms around.
Have to travel up to Scotland for the weekend, for a management training residential school. Since it's by train and will take about four or five hours, it's only normal to take some music along. Didn't realise some of the strange stuff I have on this computer... Fujiyama Ichiro, Enya, Kokia, Speena, Tabata Yoshiro and Loreena McKennitt, among others...
>>80 I don't think we encouter magpies very often in Japan, or at least I couldn't tell if a bird is a magpie or not even if I encountered it, because I don't know how they look in the first place...... In Japan, crows are usually considered ominous probably because of their color, as a black cat crossing in front of you is considered ominous in western countries as we have been told. Are crows considered ominous also in western countries?
>>86 There are mixed feelings about both black cats and crows. In the UK, it is considered lucky if a black cat approaches you, but if it walks away, it takes the luck away with it. It is lucky to dream of a black cat, or for a strange black cat to sit at the front of your house. The black cat crossing your path bringing bad luck is quite a North American thing, I think.
Crows, ravens and magpies are often associated with the devil, but these days, people mainly remember only the magpie superstitions, and what their numbers represent. But then, ravens are also considered a royal bird, which is why they are kept at the Tower of London. Legend goes that Britain will fall if the ravens ever leave the Tower.
>>89 America apologising for the A-bomb is as likely as the Japanese apologising for the shit that went down in occupied Korea and China. Why can't you be more like us westerners and just blow shit up? History is for the losers, the future for the winners!
it sounds damn funny westners bringing issues of china or korea. that's none of business for them. I am saying killing millions of civilians is not justified. And americans never faced it seriously. So they still let go killing innocent people. Hey i'd choose losers not killing than winners of killing innocent people.
And what about now? Americans are still killing innocents today. Which are more threats and damaging the world? The consequence is clear but no Americans seem seriously face it. yeah that's easy to bring japanese killing in asians during war than face it really. hey damericans just face it.
>>94 Oh please. Stop your bitching. Do you know what would have happened if the US didn't drop the A-Bomb? They would have gotten the Soviets to help invade Japan. And Russia would still have had bad blood from your last war with them.
>>89 I too was surprised that Paul Tibbets died with no regrets. Even if you feel it is necessary, how do you live being the person who killed 80,000 people at once and not feel ANYTHING?
My husband's elderly uncle, who just died, flew a bomber over Germany near the end of WWII. He participated in the firebombing of Dresden. He would never speak about his war experiences, which everyone assumed was due to his ambivalence about them, since after the war he became a doctor.
It is hard today to put yourself in the mindset of people who were alive at that time. Even now, you will find that many Americans alive during WWII dislike and distrust the Japanese in a way far beyond what they feel about the Germans. I personally think that this feeling is due to racism; many people throughout the US during the 1940's were of German ancestry, but almost no one was of Japanese descent, so the Japanese were considered entirely alien and incomprehensible to many Americans. And you may know that during WWII, people of Japanese ancestry, even if they were full American citizens, were forcibly removed from their homes and placed into internment camps, because they were thought to be a threat even though there was never any proof that that was so. People of German descent did not meet the same fate.
cont. And it is also interesting (although in my opinion unfair) that for many in this country, the war crimes of Germany are thought of as mainly the responsibility of the Nazi government rather than the German people, whereas the blame for Japan's atrocities is placed on the whole population, rather than the military or ruling government at that time. By atrocities, I am referring not only to what happened in China or Korea, but also the well-documented abuse of POWs and civilians by occupying Japanese forces in Southeast Asia.
As far as the dropping of the atomic bomb is concerned, it was one of a few very undesirable options. The US wanted Japan to surrender and at the same time wanted to minimize the number of US casualties. Based on what happened during the invasion of Okinawa, our government did not want to attempt an invasion of mainland Japan. But they felt they needed a way to shock Japan into surrendering, thus the decision to drop the bomb on Hiroshima. An alternative would have been to use conventional firebombing, as was used to level most of Tokyo, but I'm not sure that would have been a more humanitarian option. As far as America's conduct in other times and places, I can't see how that can be linked to WWII.
There is no nation on Earth that does not have blood on their hands. It is useless to argue about who is better or worse. We are all human and we are all capable of great good and great evil. I think that ambiguity of the inscription on the memorial at Hiroshima is entirely appropriate, rendered in English as "Rest in peace, for the mistake will not be repeated".
Neo nazis are even better than white trash hypocrites, who are in essential racist and schadenfreude. They are desperately tring to find more evil people and don't examine seriously. and don't care about their own matter. Neo nazis don't hide their feelings and They are fool but honest in a sense. >>98 US knew japan would lose sooner or later. It was a matter of time. They wanted to drop atomic bomb first. they wanted an experimenatal sit and to show their power to their next enemy, soviet union. then make excuse.
You'd better check what Truman and Roosevelt said to japanese. 鬼畜米英 devil america-british? would sound childish.
I think even american like you can't go back to the sense of average white americans at that time. a lot of nazi staffs mostly came from USA. eugenics and concentration camp and so on.
>>97 Think about his position. he did through his duty. He had to say it! or were made to say. I am not with him. I am japanese. But his reaction is understandable. America would collapse if he had admitted.
>>101 >I think even american like you can't go back to the sense of average white americans >at that time.
I don't think the mentality of the majority of average US citizens has not been dramatically changed since WWII.. Right after the 911 when Bush stated that the US was going to fight back against whoever did it, 99% of them automatically endorsed him without finding out enough evidence about it. Then, all the mess has yet to continue and half of them are still blindly in favor; or they just worry about how their own soliders are doing over there. Now what they'll need is a rational justification just for their own peace of mind, going like there was no other course of action to take at that time. I hope Japan won't copy this kind of nationality.
They're right though. Why the fuck should we apologize for the A-Bomb when you guys won't apologize for the Rape of Nanking, which was about 30x worse?
And in second clip, her gesture may have already been being made up. I think this was an attempt to her character.
Her voice changed completely. It's intriguing. Because she keeps her hign tone voice any time on TV. If she keeps on intentionally it's amazing. I suspect she had a surgery on her throat to change her voice. as well as her face....
What was he gonna say? "Oh...nah, I don't want to drop the bomb. I don't really feel like ending the war and saving thousands of American AND Japanese lives."
And maybe you guys should apologize for Pearl Harbor and forcing us into the war before we apologize for ending it.
the Rape of Nanking was made up or exaggrated to balance out the allied atrocities. and as for the book, there are many errors, almost fake. but americans and chinese don't care. it should have occured for their conveniece. and most japanese are idiot and don't complain. And we apologized somehow again and again not examing the details. first of all, japanese are fool and too low bowing. that's the problem.
and again it's not unrelated to USA. lol and atomic bombs really dropped. lol >>108 is a good example of white trash in USA
The Nanking Massacre death toll went into the 250,000s.
The atomic bomb killed 120,000. Not only that, but we admit. You guys always conveniently remove stuff like the massacre from your history books. And you claim it was made up? Oh my god.
>>115 The Japanese fucking government admits it happened. Plus, it was only 70 years ago, some people really WERE there. Its far too early to start thinking it's made up when people who experienced it are still alive to document it.
I guess 200,000 Chinese people decided to just disappear in a month for no reason.
No wonder China and Korea hates you guys. At least we freely admit we bombed you and that we wish it never happened. You guys just turn your heads and walk away.
it's not related to USA. This is what I meant. >>111 HaHaHa. americans are very egomaniac.
As for a surprise attack, america herself has the record of a surpise attack. that war was started from an uncertain reason, convinent reason to start the war. Sinking of maine.
thanks to pearl harbour attack, America could finally find the cause to be involved in german and oppresed jewish war in the continent. lucky you.
pearl harbor attack was not a strategy. just one hour later than ultimatum. japanese were just fool.
I am not justifying japanse action. but I'm against that conception that america is a land of justice, moral, chivalry, like that. They are dirty, coward, and clever.
now california is becoming another state of mexico. I'm happy about this. because usa attacked mexico without the declaration of war. california and texas should be mexican territory and now defacto mexican territory. and i'm satisfied.
No, but it has to do with you guys people live "AMERICA NEEDS TO APOLOGIZE FOR THE A-BOMB" and meanwhile you guys wont apologize for anything yourselves. Why? Because those things are made up or skewed, apparently. Thats sick.
Japan attacked a Russian fleet at Port Arthur without warning in 1904, starting the Russo-Japanese war. It is no surprise that it did the same to America year later. It is a devious country.
>>126 I personally won't apologize easily. It's my personal matter. But many japanese including politicians apologied. it's true. And it has nothing to do with you.
then your country turn?
by the way, there are many theories about the number of casualities. You only cite information from autocratic state. and cite as many number as posssible.
I don't wanna compare atomic bombs to nanking. But just for the record, casualities are not so small alone in hiroshima. And nearly 200000 if combined with the casuality of nagasaki.
It's just a chatting on the internet. I don't think any japanese politician will ask for apology except communist party and USA politician won't apology at least within 50 years. I won't call for apology. but USA attitude just anonoying. That's all.
>>108 =>>111=>>113=>>116 and other dumb posts....this guy is trying too hard lol go get a life. If Nankin were true and 30x worse and we had had arms that could have killed so many people, we could have won the war. Did you ever think about that? or your little brain couldn't allow you to think? and I don't know why this dumb asshole keeps posting in a Japanese website if he "hates" Japan....pathetic lol
Feelings seem to be running pretty high here regarding WWII. I'm not surprised--there's still a lot of resentment here in the US over the Civil War, and that was almost 150 years ago, not a mere 60 years ago.
You can argue about it until you're blue in the face, but the fact is it happened, terrible things were done by both sides, and most importantly, it's over and the two countries now enjoy a peaceful relationship, more or less.
> You can argue about it until you're blue in the face, but the fact is > it happened, terrible things were done by both sides, and most > importantly, it's over and the two countries now enjoy a peaceful relationship, > more or less.
I agree, It's not the matter of which side is worse. Both countries did awful things. And yes, it's over. Those who keep saying stupid things about WWII, do you want to pass animosity onto the next generation, or a peaceful relationship?
You didn't get what I meant. We didn't have arms that could have killed that many people. Otherwise, why could the two atomic bombs end the war? 30x worse than atomic bombs? lol someone's brain needs fixing.
>>98 >As far as the dropping of the atomic bomb is concerned, it was one of a few very undesirable >options. The US wanted Japan to surrender and at the same time wanted to minimize the >number of US casualties.
This is said to be the typical your side of the story to justfy A-bombings. It is said that Japan would have surrendered even if US hadn't dropped A-bombs. It was like you give someone a hard blows when he is too exhasuted and almost unconcious.
Japan was getting weaker and weaker day by day as a country at the time and actually it had no will to continue the war.
No matter what kind of excuses US makes, the two A-bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was solely for the purpose of experimenting the new weapon, nuclear bomb. US just wanted datas about how effective the A-bombs were and what kind of damages they could cause.
The aftermaths of the bombs still continues. There are still lots of A-bomb survivers suffering from aftereffects caused by radiation and other stuff.
>>136 I was trying to present the US POV at that time, as accurately as I understand it. I wasn't born yet, so this is constructed from what I've read on the subject and what people have told me who were alive at that time. Japan may have been ready to surrender, but that was not known to the US. The US had asked for an unconditional surrender in July of 1945 (Potsdam declaration). Japan's government unequivocally rejected it, possibly due to divisions within their own ranks about how to end the war, getting the best terms for their country.
The dropping of the bomb was terrible, but was not done as an experiment using the Japanese as test subjects. The point of the bomb was to do something so terrible to Japan that the country would immediately surrender. Remember, Germany had already surrendered in May. The US was sick of being at war. We had been fighting on two fronts for five years. I think everyone here wanted the war to end as quickly as possible, and probably weren't that concerned with the loss of life of Japanese civilians. Horrible, but true.
No one at the time really paid attention to the after effects of exposure to radiation. Many US soldiers contracted cancer because they were forced to observe test explosions during the development of the bomb. And even after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nuclear testing was still carried out aboveground for many years afterward. People today are much more aware of such dangers than back then.
It'd be fun to talk about history, though, if people were not wrapped in their own emotions. But it's not when someone repeats the propaganda here. Something must have happened in Nanking then, but the number of the casualities seems highly unreliable, as the Chinese government has been increasing it every couple of years: they have even adimitted it is a 'politically figured number'. This is still a controversial issue, anyway.
>>138 It is widely discussed by historians that the dropping of the bombs were meant to show their preventive move towards the USSR, especially in the hope of having an advantage in the coming Cold War era afterwards. Also, the experimental use of the bombs is backed up by the fact that they sent a large numbers of researchers to the sites as soon as the war ended. There were a lot of political dynamics involved in the bombings other than merely a means of ending the war, I believe.
I'm not >>89 And I didn't expect apology or regret from his mouth at all. And the content of 89 is exactly what I expected. I feel a bit disgusted. But a waste of time.
US seems to seek a resolution to call apology from turkey for armeanian massacre. what a meddling contry!
US always digs up the past of another and wears the justicman face. and they don't turn their face to their own atrocity. You have lots to do befor this. LOL Turkey gets mad and US cabinet members got worried. And They were runnning to stop the resolution. Why can't they do for japan? japan helped useless groundless war in iraq. they make little of us.
At least US don't pay the price and get what they deserve and don't apology at all. Japanese easily apologise even to obsucure matter. That's not fair. So I can't geneneralize two countries.
>>139 You bring up some interesting points. But the flocking of researchers to the aftermath of the bombing does not necessarily mean that the whole thing was a massive experiment. The same thing happened after Chernobyl. Although I could agree that the bomb was meant to impress the USSR also, not just Japan.
>>140 The reason the US has been pushing the resolution on the Armenian massacre is because a high number of the survivors ended up living here. In fact, my piano teachers as a kid were Armenian and that was the first I had ever heard of it, when they told me they had escaped to this country.
I think USA is crazy. But they are more crazy. Their power of spirit is not that of japan at war time. Beware. They'll fight untill their death. Untill their annihilation, USA may fall first. Crazy racism and god chosen religion may not work this time.
America now is like a coward shooting up with machine gun. I'm afraid what is gonna happen when America get totally mad and serious! I'm not sure which side will win. Scary.
>>142 It might not be a good idea here to compare it to the accident, because the bombings were thoroughly planned and executed with a certain intent. I think it is quite reasonable to say that the research was one of its major aspects, since it was the very first opportunity ever made to see what the almighty weapon would actually do to humans and the environment. Of course, the govenment would never officially admit it was the case, I guess.
>>144 I don't really want to be in the position of defending the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They were terrible acts, and if the situation had been reversed, if the Japanese had dropped such bombs on two American cities, would we have considered those to be war crimes? Probably. But I find it very difficult to believe that the primary motivation was experimentation. If so, I would expect that someone in this country would have leaked that information eventually. Because very few of the dirty things done by our government (and I am well aware that there is a long list) can remain forever hidden from the press here. That would indeed be an amazing revelation, if it could be proven.
Everyone hates America cause they rape everyone in the ass. They probably are stupid, but what shits everyone else the most is that they're so powerful that it doesn't matter. I don't necessarily like the US much, cause your children are fucked in the head, but I love watching a bunch of stupid Europeans talk about how stupid the Americans are, the background being their shithole country. And even if the Chinese were badly treated in WWII, it's best not to admit it, cause they're government is always looking for a reason to stroke their penises and feel good about how great they are. And the koreans probably did get treated like shit, but they're fucking crazy now. They're women beat up their children and make them do homework, and apparently they can be gloved hitwomen too.
Oh, and Japan, you got raped in the ass in WW2. Just as we can rip on the Germans for being stupid nazis, we can rip on you for losing ww2 in a mushroom cloud. If you don't like it you must start another war and win. The whole reason people fight wars is so we make fun of the losers. (cont)
(cont) What your problem is, is that you believe that everyone should be treated equally and fairly, and that every country is a rich tapestry of culture and different values, and that the end of history will be everyone holding hands and singing horrible folk songs about how great is being together and equal. That's communism, and it failed hard. The sooner everyone realises that the world is shit, the better, because you'll find that rather sitting around like a fat emo kid and whining about how horrible your own life is (and no one elses), you'll discover that the world will be a fun place, full of opportunities of knocking people down who think they're high and mighty, and slinging shit at people on the left, right, above or below you. The end of history will see all our values evolve into something resembling an internet message board, where hate and crimes are anonymously committed, so there is no chance of profiling or perversion of justice (because there is none). It's like anarchy, but we've beaten up all those stupid punk wannabes. Cause american punk rock is shit. This is my dream.
1. An illegal stay 2. Drink liquor; is driving without a license by car 3. Hit and run 4. An own country escape 5.10 years later, I am arrested in an own country by a crime in Japan 6. I hand you over, and I am arrested by Japan 7. It is penal servitude two years at a trial 8. The appeal of the criminal
The reason of the appeal There are ill mother and older sister in the own country. I intend to have made good faith for the bereaved
The weak-kneed diplomacy of ... Japan which would do any kind of good faith is disgusting!
That's weird. I've never heard of a country handing over its nationals. Unless it's for terrorism or fiddling with kiddies, if you make it out of a country and you make it back to your home country, you're usually safe from the law.
Japan is lucky. You have the death penalty. It must be fun to watch. I'd love to be the guy pushing the switch.
God..I leave 2ch for a week or so, and somebody /had/ to bring up the f***ing war, didn't they?
Anybody want to talk about something else? I spent a fascinating day at Meijo Daigaku's festival in Nagoya. Visited the model train club, the anime club, and the computer programming club displays. Plus, cheap food. Japanese universities throw /much/ better parties than mine every did back in Canada.
My dream is to meet you someday, so that we can hold hands together and sing beautiful folk songs about world peace & how great it is to love everyone in the whole wide world & how we're all just one big happy family.
I read that school in America have a dress-up day. I read that the day's theme is decided in advance such as a pajama day when you wear pajama.
How often do you have dress-up day in a year. Since when? I mean, from elementary school or just at high school? Do you have to wear a custume from home or do you change to your costume after arriving at school?
I want to know how anal sex is frequent and usual in america and europe. It's creepy and sinner than faggots! most of the faggots do anal sex though. lol
I don't know. lol But Adult Video featureing anal sex is rare in Japan. It's only for fetish. At leaset in porn movie anal sex seems to be norm in America.
>>186 Read lyrics of Japanese hip hop. You can find rhymes there, I think. Rappers brain's IQ is less than that of Chimpanzees so you won't be impressed, though.
>>161 Sorry, I'm a little late replying to this. The kind of dress-up day you mention is mostly for really little kids, in preschool and kindergarten. They have pajama day, crazy hat day, Halloween costume parades, beach day (wear bathing suits out of season), special events like class rodeos where they dress like cowboys/cowgirls etc. etc.
In elementary school (usually grades 1-5), there are fewer dress up days. In my town, there is "island day" (wear your Hawaiian shirt), a 1950's dress up day for the 5th grade (wear your poodle skirt or slick your hair back), "Spirit Day (wear your school colors), and sometimes when a local team wins a big tournament--like the Red Sox winning the World Series--you can wear your team hat or tee shirt to school. Middle School (grades 6-8) and High School (9-12) may have "Spirit Day", where people wear the school colors. In High School, this may occur around a big event like Homecoming Weekend.
>>195 I thought no one replys. Thank you for your answer in detail, homecoming queen. So, it's a day for small kids at school. You have costume days in varieties.
>>196 Why don't you write somethig like a poem with some rhymes.
I think the drama "Heroes" was mentioned before here. In Japan, you can't watch it free of charge. You have to subscribed to a company to watch it with a monthly fee on communication satellite broadcast or maybe on cable TV.
For the past few days, you could watch it here free of charge because the broadcast try to promote to get more subscribers. I managed to watch season one's episode 1-5. At this point Hiro Nakamura, played by Mashi Oka intentionally speak English with Japanese accent.
I have a question to people in US or other countires who watch the drama. Until when does he speak English with intentinal Japanese accent? Maybe all the way through series 1 or did he start to speak English without Japanese accent from somewhere in the series?
By the way, Japanese conversations between his collegue in the drama who came to US with Hiro and Hiro is terrible full of unaturall Japaese expressshions. In terms of accent, Hiro speaks almost perfect Japanese. But the intonation and pronunciation of actor who plays a role of Hiro's calleague is terrible. I wonder if they couldn't find any actors who can speak almost perfect Japanese.
They must have known that the drama would be aired in Japan, too, so I just thouhgt that they should have found a more suitable actor who speak Japanese well. And I wonder if they didn't hire a proofreader for the conversations between Hiro and his colleague.
And back again. The residential school course was fairly educational, being thrust into unexpected situations and having to give lots of presentations. The train journey there was uneventful, but on the way back, trains were delayed because someone had jumped onto the mainline track, so there were delays of over 3 hours. But it was worth it, because a lecturer from Moscow State University was in the seat beside mine, and the talking was very interesting.
>>198 Currently up to date in Season 2, and Hiro still speaks in Japanese-accented English. Also, isn't the guy who plays Ando (Hiro's colleague) actually Korean? I don't think they really cared much about what people in other countries think of it, you'll see how English people are viewed once the time comes.
>>199 I wouldn't want to talk to the prefessor in that situation. It sounds like difficult to find a topic he/she and me both find interesting to talk about. If he/she is talkative then I would be a captive audience. Can't stand it.
Oh, Ando is Korean? If so, that makes sense. Another character who plays arole of a police officer or something in one episode who is supposed to be a Japanese speaks terrible Japanese. Maybe he is not Japanese, either.
They must have known there is a possibility it would be aired in Japan like other popular dramas such as Prison Break and 24. If I were them, I wouldn't let an actor who doesn't speak good Japanese get the role of the character. I don't know about episode 6 and later, but in 1-5, there are a lot of scenes where Hiro and Ando talk. Listening to strange Ando's Japanese was a torture.
I wouldn't want audience in Japan to feel strange. Some of them might laugh at the Korean? actor. I searched on the net and some sites said Mashi Oka translated their lines into Japanese. I think theyshould have hired a good translater.
>>200 Nice try but what words rhymes with what? Anyway, somehow sounds cute.
>>201>>202 Oh well. I was trying to rhyme とき+ない+ほしい but it looks like I broke a grammar rule & ない became なく. Which doesn't work so well. I tried to find some actual poems in Japanese that rhyme on the Internet, but I was unsuccessful. Maybe it isn't common. But I still think someone with a vocabulary larger than mine (and a lot more talent) could manage it.
>>202 After a little research, found that the actor who plays Ando is 'James Kyson Lee' (changed from Lee Jae Hyeok), and was born in Seoul, before his family moved to the US.
I think they knew that it would be aired in other countries, but they just don't really care. Their target audience is America, and they'll make a profit off that alone. Anything else is just a bonus.
Fortunately, the lecturer was interested in classical English literature, collecting strange things, history, and especially travelling, so there was plenty to talk about. It also helped that she had huge eyes.
>>209 I have, but with not much opportunity to explore. Yokohama, Nagoya and Kōbe are the only cities I have seen, as my parents have friends there who kindly let me stay. Haven't had much opportunity to travel lately because of studies.
>>212 Currently teaching myself Japanese through books and CDs, but my main studies are for an MBA, which has a couple years left. The time goes by really slowly, but just hoping it will pay off.
How about you? What do you want to get from learning English?
>>214 Why? If you go somewhere with nothing in mind, it's alright for a holiday, but you might become bored or disillusioned if you stay for longer. Some people are good at wandering though.
If you come to Australia, give me a call. The drinking age is younger than the US, only 18, but there are plenty of younger people with fake IDs if that's what you like. We'll get drunk together :D .
Kimi wa kawaii, Boku no kuroneko Akai ribonga, Yoku ni au yo Dakedo tokidoki, tsume wo dashite Boku no kokoro wo nayamaseru Kuroneko no tango, tango, tango Bokuno koibito wa kuroi neko Kuroneko no tango, tango, tango Neko no me no you ni, kimagureyo Lalalalalala lala nyaao
>>215 Are you implying that you'll arrange (or make) me a fake ID so I can drink with you?? Thank you!
I need to escape this country. Only a couple of month ago, then prime minister quick all of a sudden due to a stomack problem, and yesterday the leading opposition party leader made a sudden announcement that he wanted to quit being leader of the party...... Hopeless leaders.....
If you are 18 or over, you won't need a fake ID, because you're of the legal age. It's different in the US, however, as many states have the legal age being 21, like Japan.
They certainly do things differently in Japan. The only reason our leaders would ever quit if they were caught in a sex scandal or they were caught in some money scam. Even then it would only be after denying it for a few months and not until some real evidence came out implicating them.
Japan sounds like a nice place, as there aren't many very serious crimes that seem to happen there. But before I went and lived there I'd learn Japanese fluently, and I wouldn't stay there all my life. I'd either get homesick or I'd go see what other places the world has to offer.
Why do so many people dream of living in Japan so much? Then you ask them who the current Prime Minister is, or what the laws or, or what unspoken customs are, and they can't answer. And many of them can't speak any Japanese. I don't get what these people's obsession is with a country or a people they have no idea about.
>>223 I can picture you as a fat white man wearing bicycle shorts and a little backpack, clutching a big camera and looking up at all the buildings. "wow! Wow! Woooooooooow!"
And the nervous sideways glances from the Tokyoites who just want you to go back to whatever planet you came from.
I'm Australian, and I saw a video of a bunch of surfers trying to stop a bunch of fishermen in Japan killing some stupid dolphins.
I was sad, because the Japanese fishermen missed the surfers every time he tried to hit them with the boat hook. Next time I hope he stabs those dumb kids in the ass.
>>233 So are human children. But they get abused and killed everyday in various parts around the world, and no one cares. These kids should stop wasting everyone's time and protest about something worthwhile, something that will help their own species. When humans are perfect in every way, then I'll give a damn if some fishermen are just trying to protect their livelihood by killing some dolphins who are stealing their fish.
The only reason other westerners (excluding people with better things to do like me) care so much about dolphins is that they themselves don't eat or have ever had to kill them. It's different, so they think it's wrong. If japanese fishermen kill dolphins in japanese waters, who am I to care?
I'm sick of people from Japan saying that Australians are all hypocrites. You only see the stupid Greenpeace people and the rednecks talking about how horrible it is the japanese are killing whales. The majority of us Aussies have better things to do than meddle in the affairs of Japan.
Sorry, I have to disagree with some of what you said. Human children are not cute and intelligent. They are small, fat, balding and ugly. All they do is salivate and expect people to cater for them all the time. If they don't get what they want, they whine and cry. You can't even hold an intelligent conversation with them. The last time I tried to discuss the works of Leo Tolstoy with a baby, it just made stupid sounds and peed itself.
>>236 I never said anything about being a genius, or about dolphins being cute or intelligent. The point was merely showing that babies are stupid and ugly.
>>237 But I still say we should be doing more for our own species. Regardless of your belief in evolution or creation, if dolphins were meant to master the sea they would have guns that come out of their blowholes.
>>239 No no, that's how englishmen usually think. And seriously, that's what their kids look like. Right up until adulthood. Some can never break out of their hideous cocoons. How terrible!
>>240, >>242 In some cases, it's true, I guess. For example, this is how I imagine Winston Churchill would have looked as a baby. When he was much older, there was no difference. See? http://www.jabking.com/photos/ugly_baby.jpg
Women always seem to find babies cute, though. And men who have their own children, sometimes.
>>241 Sorry to disappoint you, but I don't really know much about porn stars, and still favour Power-metal over Slash-metal.
Right in the post next to us, they're bashing Aussies. lol, The Japanese will never be as good at bashing us Australians as the Brits. I mean, the Marmy Army have their own chants and everything.
>>251 I've heard that mammal adults find any mammal babies cute genetically, and the evidence of it is that a dog kept in a house will never mess with a new born baby because the dog also finds the baby, who is younger than him/her, endearing.
>>255 くつをめがなくてもいいですか。 This doesn't make sense. くつmeans shoes. I don't understand what めぐ is a dialect in some reaions meaning, break something, but we never say くつをめぐ. Anyway, if I forced totranslate the odd sentense, I would translate, like, "You don't need to have the shoes broken?"
ーはい、けっこうですよ。 This sentense makes sense and it means "Yes, That's OK" or in this context, "yes, you don't need to."
I think it's a good thing that leaders in Japan quit as easily as I musterbate. At least they are capable of feeling ashamed of themselve and showing that. Look at america. It's still bush. It's boring.
Why do you think Dumbledore and Harry had such a close relationship? That crusty old wizard was obviously a shotacon, and used magic spells to molest young boys.
Now we know why Dumbledore thought Snape came to like Harry(, which turned out it was his love for his mother Lily.) Dumbledore's misunderstanding is explained by his gayness. isn't it?
I masturbate at least 4 times a day. After the forth masturbation, my head hurts. So I always swear that I quit this bad habit of mine once and for all. And the next day, I masturbate. Why?
Snape kept holding his love for Lily for years and years after her tragic death. He kept reminding himself of the love by watching Harry's eyes. Creepy.
>>311 Actually, I only did a quick Google of "russian porn", since that was requested. If we're talking about personal favourite porn sites, I prefer www.g-queen.com
>>314 I've heard that if you keep masturbating, you can't make enough sperm to keep up with the demand...then blood starts coming out. But maybe that's not true. I don't know.
>>325 Actually, no, I just Googled "russian porn" and linked the site. I checked it briefly, but I wasn't really seriously reccomending it.
G-Queen would be better if it offered more sample movies, but I love the pictures in the preview sites. Pity they censor them with 'members only' blocks, though. I keep trying to find torrents of pirated G-Queen movies, but no luck so far.
>>326 Okay, you shouldn't go then. It's pretty scary.
If you like uncensored Japanese ones, check out ttp://erozanmai.com/html/contents.htm They have two 7min samples available near the bottom. You have to download and unzip them tho.
>>327 And thanks. I like uncensored, but the one thing that really bothers me is the hair. Japanese never seem to even trim, let along shave, which is why G-Queen is such an oasis...even if the free material is very scarce.
>>331 I see. I am trying to recall anything peaceful but I can't. Hmm.. Seems like the hair thing is a big burden to alot of people. Pesonally, I don't care much.
>>332 If I have a preference, I go for smooth. But even if I can't have that, a little bit of trimming would be nice. It's honestly a wild, primordial forest down there sometimes, and it personally puts me off.
I was hikky for 1 year. Now I go to college but I dont talk with anyone. College gives me colossally stress, I am very nervous because of my exams and because of my future. I feel out of place everyday.
>>340 Soft smooth hair would be nice, but completely bald is better. However, the hair is usually very stiff and coarse. At least trimming it away from the important areas can make things a little better, I think.
But what do I know? I'm just an internet pervert. Good night. ^_^
>>357 You are repeating the same line. Stick to it then you'd be on the next thread's >>1 as "Morons who think Tokyo is your Promised Land." lol
What makes you think all of Japanese people here live in Tokyo? Just about one tenth of total Japanese population live in Tokyo. It's quite a large percentage though, depending on how you look at it.
She works under the theme of juku-jo. But she does not appear so old. She has wonderful breats that are real. And she smiles and seems to enjoy the fucking. often it is hard to tell if av actress is enjoying herself.
Why are there so many stupid people here? You all could speak English much better if you really knew it.
Firstable you should know they don't use the formal, exam-used English to have a chat. They surely laugh at you talking with friends using YOUR English because of the aboves.
Learn and know theirs which is for everyday-use. Otherwise you will never actually get it really.
>>377 I said that it "seemed to me". It was my impression, my perspective, my view.
Right now, I'm jealous of Japan's internet service. US internet is actually pretty bad for the price. You guys get cheap fiber-optic networks that put us to shame. I believe the average Japanese broadband user connects at something like 40 or 50megabits per second, while here in the us it's more like 1.9megabits.
It's not fare. ;; But at least we're not in Australia, I hear theirs is the worst.
To the teachers at NOVA. ・Check your umployment insuranse. If you obtained it,you can get its benefit. And if you are looking for job,EF English first is calling the new teachers. Good luck!
100 megabits per sec is the maximum speed that the fiber-optic can offer in theory. In reality, I heard most services fit from 40 megabits to 70. It also varies depending on the type of housing you have; if it's an apartment or condo building, the is no way it can go over 90, because the line is shared by multiple units. Still, I think it's less stressful for regular use though.
I saw in the newspaper today that Deng Xiaoping was quoted as saying "It doesn't matter the color of the cat as long as it catches mice." It seems that the propaganda machine of the PRC (Purring Republic of Cats) has been working overtime.
Over here, around 20mbits is the maximum for normal customers. I'm supposed to be on 4mbits, but it's not even that fast. Considering switching to 8mbit from another provider. My neighbour is still on 56k dial-up. Then again, I went around to help with his modem problem yesterday, and after spending five minutes fixing it, he spent 2 hours talking about the war and how he hates Turks and Russians.
And on the topic of Russians, the one from the train is flying back home in a couple days. 。・゚・(ノД`)・゚・。
>>251 イギリス人さんI'm a little surprised at you. Your comments are usually not so unkind. How could you not find this little guy just adorable? http://www.jabking.com/photos/ugly_baby.jpg But he does look a little angry. I think he heard what you were saying about him. You'd better watch your back, or some morning you may wake up to find someone's dirty diaper at the foot of your bed.
>>392 Maybe I was having a bit of an off-day. Spent most of the day and night before travelling. You have to admit, though, that Churchill wasn't the best looking of men. And that baby does look like him. And thanks. Now I'll have to lock my door at night just in case.
>>393 The one from >>199, who was visiting Edinburgh that day.
>>398 It's funny cause it's true. So many dumb fags running around these days worried about getting a girlfriend. They cost too much and always hold back.
Cause with the declining birth rates and all, we all know that after they invent artificial wombs you can use at home, women will become obsolete and NEETs and otaku will rise up and quietly take over the world.
>>407 It's usually done between friends or acquaintances. On a business lunch, the inviter usually pays for the whole meal, and on a date, the man usually pays for both. It is stingy depending on the circumstance.
I should have said "over the sea". But the japanese sea should be abstained from. Actually correct both historicall and international law aspects. But it makes them sullen so it's not correct. If you mistake, You'll have hours of lesson!
Some English words function as both the first name and surname.
For example, Taylor is the word. John Taylor(from Duran Duran) and Taylor Hicks(an american musician. I don't know about him. just googled and found out his name.) are the case. Why? And I suppose Taylor came from tailor. So it means a occupation and doesn't have a special meaning. Why do people bother to name their children a banal name? Taylor can be a feminie too. Interesting.
>>391 Seems like UK is lagging behind Japan when it comes to Internet connection. Not many people here usu dail-up connection anymore. ISPs promote fiber optic cable connection for the past few years and it is getting popular throughout Japan.
In ruaral areas people can't use fiber optical connection so they have to settle for ADSL connection. But ADSL is far faster than dial-up. Maybe, the fastest ADSL is 56MB. In my case, I used 24MB ADSL servise but in reality, the speed was a little faster than 1MB. I couldn't complain though, cause The further you live from a telephone company, the slower the ADSL connection gets.
I subscribed to fiber optical connection the other day and now I'm using it. Their sales pitch is you can get 100MB speed, but I checked its speed on a webste where you can measure Internet access speed, and found out that I can only get around 20MB. It seems, depending on internet traffic, what time of the day you use Internet affect connection speed.
Still, 20MB provides me with confortable Internet experience. I often download zip files on some porn sites. It's real fast to download those files!!! If you use p to p software, which I don't use, you can get the most out of Fiber optical connection.
It's a shame to say that I feel fiber optic is most usuful when I download files from porn sites. But It's true. That's what man is about. I hagven't bought any porn photbooks nor have rent porn DVDs for many years thanks to the Internet.
Do you know any sites where japanese want to meet with foreigners for marriage. I am foreigner interested in marriage with japanese girl. I am handsome.
>>422 Can you tell me more about real side of japanese girls? That dating site is cool. I dont like non-asian girls at all. I want to marry japanese girl who can also give me a working visa
>>424 I doubt that photos on that type of the site are those of subcribers. The company who run a dating servise gather attractive looking girls' photo on the net.
>>427 I haven't read the site thorugh and I'm not going to, but does it say video chat? If not, who knows? You may end up ugly middle age men. Even if you can video chat and can make sure she is the girl on a particular photo, she maybe just hired by the site being paid an hour. I don't know how that kind of site works, though.
Anyway, trying to meet through that kind of site is not a good idea. It's more safe and better to use a social networking site or other normal penpal site.
>>430 I don't know why you are so desparate. If you can find a job that can sponsor you for a visa, it wont be a problem. I think you shuold look for a good company rather than a slut.
>>436 You go to the most prestigious uni in Russia and I can't feel a whiff of intelligence from your posts in the past. lol Almost all you write is about how to meet girls in Japan.
>>437 Because I dont like talking about intelligent things, dude. When I am in university I am study, but when I am at home I dont want to remember things I learned at university... and I am not going to math courses anyway...
I cant. There is Asia and Africa institute where people study japanese and go to japanese universities, but only for 1 year. But I am not in that university. Also who is gonna pay my life expenses in japan ? :(
He is said to be one of the best right hander in Japanese baseball now. Japanese media reports that chances are 50/50 of his playing in Major League next season.
He is now a free agent and any clubs including major league's club can negotiate with him. Sources say, some major league's clubs' scouts value him higher than Matsuzaka. The Smelly, rather The Red Sox is one of them. If the Red sox offer highest prices and the right hander decide to play in Major league, you can see him throwing in the Red Sox's uniform.
He loves to play on his current team and recognizes responsibility as the best pitcher of his team. (one of the best in Japanse league.) That can make him decide to play in Japanes baseball but at the same time he wants to try his ability in the best stage, Major League.
I'll prepare for a long flat board with wheels under it. I'll bore a hole in the front of the board and tie a rope to it. I'll lie on my stomach on the board. You must be honored to be appointed a man to pull the rope in the Moscow subway system.
>>459 I'm not sure what he is. He moved here from Hungary many years ago, though, and served in the British armed forces. He feels that Russia is trying to put a block between the US and the EU, so that the EU - without a centralised army - would be unable to withstand a Russian invasion. Though he hates Turkey, they have quite a sizeable military which the EU might benefit from.
>>462 Got it, I think... "It is my will that I will obtain a valid visa from the Japanese government which will allow me to legally live and work in Japan as of the seventeenth day of the month of January in the year two thousand and eight."
I wrote before about a tourist I met in my town. This is another story.
One of my friends were planning to have a girl from India to stay his home for about a week. Since I speak decent English, he invited me to visit his home during the occasion. I had heard that Indians speak English with thick accent so I wasn't sure if I could understand what she would say.
Actually, I heard a story about a professional interpreter. Acording to her, when she interpreted at a UN conference, English of deplomats from India was hard to understand. Even a professional interpreter finds it difficult to understand what Indians say in English. I was kind of nervous.
In those days, I often visited a tourist spot where people from overseas visit to talk with them in English. I happened to find a couple in middle ages there. From thier looks, they seem to be from South Asia. I thought this was a nice coincidence and it was a good idea to talk with them to see if I can understand them.
I don't mind talking to strangers in English because even if I speak terrible English and they think I'm stupid, we don't have to see again later. After all, they are tourists and they leave Japan. It's not that I don't need courage to talk to them but we never meet again so I don't have to feel too nervous.
I walked up to the couple and said, "Hello, how are you?" They were from Sri Lanka. In case you don't know where it is, (I herad one survey shows that one fifth of American even don't know where their country is on a map.) it is located off the coast of India and used to be a part of India but now it is an independent country.
I could imagine they speak English as Indians do. The husband seemed to be not good at English, though. His wife looked a bit timid. I don't know why but maybe she was scared of me. Their English was not more difficult to understand than I had expected. We can communicate with each other. After chatting for a while, he said he hadn't book a hotel. It was after 5pm. Soon, it would be getting dark.
They don't speak Japanese and I wondered how they would find a place to stay overnight. I asked them if they want me to find a hotel for them. They looked happy but they didn't want to spend much for accomodation. From where we stood, we could see some hotels but they are all expensive. After thinking about my next move, I decided to go in to one of the fancy hotels and asked a staff member there to introduce me the nearest and inexpensive hotel.
I explained the situation to a hotel staffer and he introduced us to a good one. He gave us a map and we got out of the hotel and walked to the hotel he introduced. The hotel looked far less gorgeous but that didn't matter for the couple. Saving money was on top of their list. We went inside.I talked to a middle aged man behind the counter. He didn't even wear a uniform nor business suit. He wore run of the mill shirt and pants. I explained to him their situation.
The couple told me they wanted to stay in a room for a single person to save money. They meant they didn't mind sleeping on one bed together. That makes sense to save money. I asked the cleark about it. His expression on his face seemed a little bit confused for a split second. And then he said, "OK, in that case, I would let them stay in a room for two people for a single person's price." Maybe they had lot of vacant rooms that night.
I thought, "Yeahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!! That's a nice bargain." I explained the couple what the cleark and I talked about. Maybe they didn't understand what I said to them, thier reaction was blank faces. I felt sorry for the cleark who offered a good bargain because they didn't say anything to him.
I reapeted to them with emotion and exaggerated tone, "THIS NICE MAN KINDLY LET YOU STAY IN A ROOM FOR TWO PERSON AT THE PRICE OF SINGLE ROOM!" Maybe at that moment they realised that they hadn't said thank you to him yet, and said to the cleark thank you. I was relieved and I was happy to help the couple to stay in a good room. Now I fullfilled my responsibility. I said to them, "it was really nice talking with you. Have a nice trip" and then I turned my back on them when the husband said "wait!"
I looked back. He was pulling a hand-size metal container, the one that looked like for candies out of his bag. I wondered what was going to happen. He opened the container and what I saw there was a lot of rings. I thought, "what the..." He said, pick any ring you like."
As you might know, Sri Lanka is famous for the production of minerals. Maybe ruby and emerald, too. I did never expect such a offer from him. He said, "I brought these rings to give to people we meet in Japan." I thought, "I wish I had en eye for gems." Actually I didn't know which ring was precious one. I joked to him with a smile, "which is the most expensive one." I don't know he got the joke because he and his wife didn't laugh. His wife remained to look timid.
That was a moment I wished I had been a magician. If I had been, I could have picked up more than one rings while it looked like I picked just one ring. Anyway, I picked up a ring randomely and said thank you to him. I was so high that I didn't notice I had picked up a ring with two different pieces of jewel on it. Maybe they thought I'm greedy. hehe
When I said good bye again to them, he asked me if I would be available the next day to show them around. I was available actually, but I said I would not because the next day is a weekday. People are supposed to work on weekdays and I didn't want them to know I lived a life of NEET, which I did. Of course some people don't work on a weekday of a week but I didn't want to make up a story about my job.
From the next day, I started to teach myself magic tricks. By the way, the indian girl's English was not with so thick accent. I hope you guys enjoyed the story.
There are countless idiots all over the world who don't know where their country is located on the world map. It's not peculiar to Americans. I hate them who don't have common knowledges and have no desire to learn things.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
Arai will be a traitor as well as Kuroda. Arai is worse because he will go to hanshin. Kuroda takes a risk and never sells his talent to Carp's rival.
Arai is a korean (japanese). Kamemoto(kim) also went to Hanshin. They all turn their backs on Carp. They are ungrateful. Who raised them to what they are now?
Arai cried crocodile tears. If you cry, why will you leave?
What is more, Sheets(american infielder) went to hanshin too. LOL Hanshin is dirty! You all know osaka is not japan. Osaka is Osaka minkoku!
>>488 He met an american tourist in his neighborhoods. He showed him around and took him to a bar which turned out to be not a suitable place. He got embarrased and left(run) with guilt feelings.
Seriously, why does the Russian think he can just be in Japan simply because he wants to be? What can he offer Japan? Does Japan need him in anyway?
The Japanese have their own people to do most jobs so they don't need yet another foreigner thinks he can just live in Japan because he "loves the culture" and has a thing for Japanese chicks.
You better learn a skill (and the language) that a company in Japan might actually care about. Otherwise you'll just have to keep on jerking off about Japan back in Russia.
>>489 So you are a Carp fan? I am, too. I'm disappointed by Arai, too. (I didn't know he is Korean.) Now Hiroshima is Hanishin's 二軍 Kanemoto and Arai were in good 先輩 and 後輩 relation when they were in the Carp. Maybe Kanemoto influenced Arai's decison to become a free Agent.
If you count Eto, who left carp and joined Giants and then Seibu, three 四番hitters left Hiroshima. Eto, Kanemoto, Arai.
If Kuroda decides to go to Major, Hiroshima has no hope in the next season.
If you start to count traitors, it doesn't end soon.
maeda is great. he is real samurai. he is blunt and clumsy on the surface. he is a man of few words. but he is warm and kind at the bottom of his heart. he is emotional man at heart.
Why do japanese women like men who look like homosexuals? I mean even many of the tough macho guys in Japan have hair-cuts that make them look gay and wimpy. It's hard to be afraid of Japanese men who have such stupid hair.
Especially hosts. They totally look like their homosexuals.
I mean seriously, when I first saw Kimutaku I thought for sure that he was gay. And he probably gets more pussy than anyone in Japan.
So there you go Russian guy. Just look like you're a homosexual and Japanese women will love you.
Why do you care if someone is zainichi or not? It's not like the Japanese can tell if someone is korean or not.
Plus it is Japan's own fault for creating the zainichi population because of WWII.
Japan should just let the zainichi be Japanese citizens if they want. I mean they were born in Japan, often have Japanese names, and speak Japanese like natives (because they are natives since they were born in Japan!). For all intent and purposes, zainichi are Japanese.
Plus it is Japan's own fault for creating the zainichi population because of WWII.
Most of them came volantarily before WW2. and most of laborers in wartime came back to their homeland.
And for the record, nearly half of them came after WW2. many came volantarily and many without visa. You can learn from public information.
And as for kanemoto and arai, they are korean japanese. So they are not zainichi in actual sense. just got a little vicious cos kanemoto might have something to do with arai's dicision.
>Japan should just let the zainichi be Japanese citizens if they want. no problem about that. we have even white japanese.
I hated eto(not soccker player "eto" LOL), kawaguchi, ioka(hiroshima resident), etc... they are not zainichi. I hate them because firt of all they are traitors.
tatsukawa is said to be korean descent. he is a good guy. not only because he has devoted his life to Carp but he is a good natured and funny guy.
So, 2ch does exist! I am reading Densha otoko (in English) and I didn´t belive that a place with discusions like that existed! And it even had an English tree so I jumped into it! Sorry for jumping into your discusion, now I will scroll up and actually read what you are talking about. Btw I am studing Nippongo.
>>505 What made you brought to this thread? Tell me exact links you followed. Mabe you searched on Google or other search engines and then you found 2ch then you searche the left side collumn of 2ch's top page and then you found the word English and you made it to English board then you searched threads on Engish board for a title written in English and now you have just posted your message here.
Although if you're studying Japanese, I wouldn't reccomend this English thread, since all we speak here is English! I am studying Japanese as well, but it's fun to have discussions here, and help some Japanese people with their English. And it's fun to compare cultural differences. n_n
>>507 I think that's the article in which I first learned about 2ch, so long ago. It's funny how he calls it "channel 2" in the article. I don't think anybody calls it that. Even on English boards like 4ch (Channel 4) and 4chan, it's always "2ch".
>>509 But when it comes to TV stations' channels, you calle them Channel *, right? He just followed the rule, but to think 2channel is a proper noun, he should have call 2ched as it is, as you say.
>>508 >And it's fun to compare cultural differences
Is it fun? It was fun before for me. But ever since I had met this guy, a friend of mine before turned out to be a big liar, and a fraud, I can't trust foreigners anymore. He lied me many times and stolen my wallet more than once when I was not around. And when I start to blame him he shows a sad face and I get tired of blaming him and say "it's ok". He thinks that I've forgiven him and next moment he does bad things to me again. He only enjoys using me...
I know it's not only about the language. There are good people and bad people in this world, I know. But I had been working very hard to learn English. I am proud of reacing an English speaker of this level without studying abroad...and then I met this guy... He apologized me again this time and said it will never happen again, so pls be my friend...but I can't trust him. Moreover, I suffer from a language disorder...I still can speak Japanese, but because of this guy, it's hard to speak English in front of people these days. He probably thinks it is a joke. I honestly can't speak English properly...
and now I regret of what I wrote.... You know...I suffer from languge disorder. I can't say what I want. because people may misunderstand me. If it would be Japanese I can explain better probably. I regret that I blamed that guy....he is happy in his way so as long as I don't get in touch with him, everything is fine. sorry and thanks for reading.,,agh...I am so depressed now...
I have a question to ask. A certain person here on English board repeatedly insists that "I'll get back to you IN thirty minutes" is practically identical with "I'll get back to you WITHIN thirty minutes".
I think your post worked other way around. You should not weep like that. Because your situation is hard to understand and guys usually don't like girls to take things negative and compalint. we are tired of hearing the complaints from mothers and girl friends.. If you have a language disorder, just dont't talk. keep silence. Because the more you talk, the more you'll cause problems.
>>518 You should deffinatly stay away from that guy. I would probably start yelling after a while. n_n;; Don't worry so much about a language barrier! I can understand you just fine! but if you still don't feel confident, continue to read this thread, watch English channels, and just keep practicing! Good luck to you! And never talk to that money-stealing jerk again! xD
>Don't worry so much about a language barrier! I can understand you just fine
I am probably being rude to say this but I think you also don't understand what I said. Maybe because of lack of my English skill and explanation. I meant I suffer from language disorder. 言語障害。 it means when I speak, I can't say a word and often stammer. it is because of the bad experience caused by a relation with that guy. So my language disorder is caused by my mental area not the matter of level of fluency. But I want to meet good friends and I hope my English would get back to normal soon.
>>536 well...you don't necessarily keep silence. all you need is a peaceful conversation, right? but people here are sometimes very harsh. Especially to those who talk about their personal lives plus you are female. That's why some guys say hard things on you. If you don't want to get hurt, don't talk. But if somebody who are kind, you feel good to reply to that person. There are kind people on this thread too, such as me! take care! cya!
I sometimes feel we could use some academic topics on this board that we could talk about in English, such as physics, psychology, literature or whatever. But there seem to be very few who want to talk about such things. Are there anybody who shares my feeling?
>>542 Oh here. I love to talk about academic topics!! How about Conan Doyle. Holmes was the most famous gaunt gentleman in the century, what is your favorite novel of his?
oh no...serial killer. I just googled and read the wikipedia. I meant Sherlock Holmes. His home on Baker street with a partner, Dr Watson. Most of the kids read the novel, didn't they/we?
>>543 I read one of his short stories long ago. I don't remember what it was about, but I liked his style. Readable and sophisticated at the same time.
It's not a Holmes' series, but I like モルグ街殺人事件 "The murders in the Rue Morgue" by Edgar Allan Poe. The culprit was someone far beyond our expectation. I read it when I was a primary school student but I still remember the story.
I wouldn't recommend such a novel written long time ago. If you ask me, I would recommend a novel which is written in modern setting. An old novel requires you to know obsolete words which more often than not makes it hard to understand.
This may sounds like an unsolicited advice though.
>>548 Yeah, but it's hard to find a good novel written recently. Writers either use cliches and old plot devices, or they make the plot or ending so outrageous it's hard to believe or just plain annoying.
>>548 no. classics are the best that's why they are called classic. there are no better quality detective stories than Sherlock Holmes. Even about the comic artists, there is no better one above Tezuka Osamu. Well, you all have your opnion. I don't think there are many artists who could exceed their level.
I don't know much about overseas mystery writers but off the top of my head, Stephan king, John Grisham, Daniel Steel, Sydney Sheldon, Michael Criton's novels are page turners and thier sotry setting is modern.
>>551 I guess they count to some extent. But they're pretty famous and well known. Maybe it's just my attitude, but I tend to avoid really popular stuff, and tend to stick to things that only a few people know about or understand. I'm not elitist, I just find it hard to get into something that has lots of hype around it.
As far as books go i've recently been looking up the classics as well. After hearing about the quality of his work i bought a book of short stories by a well known horror writer H.P. Lovecraft.
If fact that why i'm still up at 6:30 am. Every time i close my eyes, or turn my back in the dark i can't help but imagine some nameless horror from the depths of oblivion sneaking up on me... and then... and then...
lol, H.P. Lovecraft. My favourite Lovecraft poem is "On the Creation of Niggers". I don't care what anyone says, I find old fashioned racism hilarious. Stupid British people thought they were so great. Now look at their country. Full of white trash! Stupid chavs!
Hmm... Currently just 100 or so pages into Don Qixote, by Miguel de Cervantes. Took a while to find it (at a reasonable price, anyway) after someone asked about the phrase "fighting with windmills" quite a few threads ago. A little slow-paced to begin with, but quite interesting nontheless. Before this, I was reading Beowulf (Seamus Heaney translation) in a bilingual edition. My Anglo-Saxon is terrible.
>>553, >>555 My favourite H.P. Lovecraft story is Dagon. Been years since reading it and can't actually remember what it was about... but just remember it was one of the ones I enjoyed the most.
On that note, anyone ever read any Ovid? The Metamorphoses, not just the love poems. I'm more into the really ancient stuff, like the Anabasis. The Aeneid is my favourite, because the lead isn't always such a great guy, unlike many other great and powerful heroes around.
I'm glad you've read the intro to your psychology book.
But you're right, I am a homosexual. And even to me Japanese men look like sissies. I mean if a host was beating me up, I'd still be laughing because of his stupid hair.
And what's up with casting Johnny's Jimusho stars as tough guys? I'm gay and even I don't believe it. I want my touch guys to actually look tough. Kamenashi looks like my sister could smack him down.
I'm glad to hear about people reading! xD It's because I'm talking with an older crowd, huh? People my age don't seem to read anything other than magazines. I recently read "Catcher in the Rye". Interesting ending. And before that was "Everything is illuminated" by Jonathon Safron. I reccomend that one! kind of touching. A lot of people have reccomended "Call of Cthulu" by Lovecraft so maybe I'll read that too.
If you are white and become a Japanese citizen, you're still not going to be treated as a "Japanese."
Just look at Debito Arundo. He's white and a Japanese citizen yet he still wasn't admitted to a Japanese only onsen. Granted the guy seems to go looking for situations where there is a possibility that he will be discriminated against, but the point is still valid.
I bet the white or non-ethnic Japanese citizens will be singled out for finger printing at the airport once that begins, despite the fact they have Japanese passports.
Basically, in Japan nationality without the proper ethnicity with it means very little.
Books! I love books! I remember when I used to have free time to read books... but now, it's all I can do to put a little time aside most days to study my Japanese. Right now, I'm trying to read a Japanese manga (Honey and Clover), to help me learn common kanji. It takes me about 20-30 minutes to read one page. I'm sorry, I tried reading Doraemon, but the story line just didn't grab my attention. Gomen! In English-language books, after the discussion the other day (which I'm NOT trying to revive) I bought a copy of John Hershey's "Hiroshima", a book I always intended to read, but didn't. It isn't too long, so maybe I will actually finish it.
>>568 Way to make us feel ancient... Anyway, before my spoon-feeding and second afternoon nap, I'll say a little more. We almost got 'Catcher in the Rye' to study at GCSE level back when I was at school, but instead, it was changed to 'Lord of the Flies', by William Golding. Have meant to dip into Catcher, but just have never had the motivation. Jonathan Safran Foer's (sorry, had to look it up on Google) book synopsis sounds fascinating, however, so might have a go at that. Thanks.
>>569 Ah, we've heard of him too, and he's pretty disliked. He just seems like a troublemaker, going to places for 'Japanese only' and arguing with them. Just because he has a Japanese passport doesn't make him automatically Japanese. If I had a special book that said I was a woman, it wouldn't automatically make me one (I hope).
Today I bought a book called 'Russian for Beginners'. However, I am very frustrated for the simple fact that I cannot roll my 'r' sound, which is quite important (even though Lenin himself was unable to do so).
>>573 > Way to make us feel ancient... lol, sorry I didn't mean too. xD I liked Lord of the Flies as well, it was pretty interesting. :D And I love reading so any reccomendations are absorbed. :)
I haven't heard of this guy. I don't think that it's right having "japanese only" places, but I just think of it as "what? You don't want my money? Okay, your loss!" I wouldn't go in and start argueing. xD
イギリス人, I feel your pain. I can't roll my r's either and it made spanish difficult way back in middle school. I hear that it's not impossible to learn how to though.
His little book doesn't make him ethnically Japanese, but becaus of it he is legally "Japanese." That is supposed to make him in the eyes of the law a Japanese person.
Therefore, he should be allowed into places even if they are Japanese only. Even if he is a dick.
Thus citizenship is meaningless in Japan if you don't look Japanese.
>>578 That's like someone claiming they're a female in a man's body and then complaining they can't join a female-only gym or something. Perhaps they should change their signs to "Only people of a typically Japanese mindset allowed", then. What's the point in visiting these types of places if the type of people who regularly go there don't want your kind of company? They'll just make you feel alienated anyway and it'd be a waste of time.
>>575 Lord of the Flies was pretty interesting, but I find that having to study a book really takes the fun out of reading it for pleasure.
And as for r's... found a load of information about how it's supposed to be done on the Internet, but so far, I've only been successful in either making really stupid sounds (thankfully when nobody's around), or getting saliva all over my monitor (because you really needed to know that). One day, perhaps...
>>579 And Lewis Carrol (C.S. Lewis) was a paedophile, and his books are still very popular today. it's not like any of the royalties are going to either of them, because they're both dead.
"japanese only" places are not kind of south african staff. Drunken strong russians had not abided by the rules and used to make trobles and japanese got very scared. Japanese gave up and put up a sign. Yes You can say there should have been more taliking but it was not russian that was oppressed but japanese were.
so called white japanese are just racist and want to make japanese like what they have been..
And he doesn't look like typical white. he looks like mexican.. He is too annoying personality. hypocritic and prick. "white"(he believes in) man points out racism... He looks down on japanese.
When, long ago, the gods created Earth In Iove's fair image Man was shaped at birth. The beasts for lesser parts were next designed; Yet were they too remote from humankind. To fill the gap, and join the rest to Man, Th'Olympian host conceiv'd a clever plan. A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure, Filled it with vice, and called the thing a nigger.
A lot of public bathing places like sauna spas and Sentou ban people with tatoos on their body becasue yakuza or gangs, usually with massive tatoos, would scare off their regular customers. Innocent citizens with tatoos should protest too, or just find a place that lets them in?
>>581 Do you know the band called "dead end"? The vocalist of the band were considerd as the father of visual kei band. But few people know him. It is said that the band influenced many visual kei bands like X-Japan, Luna-sea, L'Arc〜en〜Ciel. I don't care because I don't like them though..
And his lyrics seems to be greatly influenced by Lovecraft. Visual kei was once more innner and pretened to be more deep. I prefer today's visual kei bands because they are just laughable and no harm.
I once knew lovecraft enthusiast. He was very narcissistic and confident. He belive in his talent. But from the outside he looks just weird and fool and crazy. LOL His literature was too narcissistic and in disorder... apart from what it really was. He was illusioned. I don't know what he's been doing now. you can say aberrations of youth?
>>575>>580 Weird. I can't roll my r's either. Maybe they should add that to list for the thread. When I took a Spanish class, the teacher told me to say my r's with the tip of my tongue touching the roof of my mouth. You can kind of fake the rolled r sound that way, although it isn't very convincing. So any plans to go to Russia someday, イギリス人さん? My parents went to St. Petersburg a few years back; it was pretty amazing.
>>574 You can try ordering manga from amazon.jp (but the shipping outside of Japan is very $$$). Within the US, I order Japanese books from Sasuga books, an online book store. They have a huge manga selection, as well as regular novels, magazines etc.
>>592 No, I at least am defective & can't make that sound. It provides endless amusement for my husband, who can roll his r's beautifully.
>>593 I have the opposite problem from you--I can't understand spoken Japanese well at all--and all I can suggest is watching lots of English language movies, TV shows etc. or listening to English language tapes. The more you hear, the better you will get, supposedly. If you are independently wealthy or a highly skilled professional, you could live in an English-speaking country for a while. That is the best way--total immersion.
ex-boyfriend the other day. He has asked someone's help and advice, like me... Because he is really worried about his job these days. Such as he's thinking of going to quit his job and so on. To tell the truth, I broke up with him about 5 months ago. He's 5 years yonger than me. He graduated from university in Nagoya,and decided to start new job in Osaka last spring. After few months later, he got transferd to Nara. He was really busy from then on. (He is still busy now) He couldn't take a day off,and had to work overtime. So it was so hard to keep relations between him and me at that time. But we still keep in touch by e-mail once in a while.
I wish I could help his matter. But I couldn't advice to him easily... I hope to it turns out well!
I'm sorry for writing my poor English diary. Thank you for reading.
>>589 Hmm... I haven't heard of 'Dead End'. Only X-Japan and Buck Tick, as >>590 also mentioned. I do like a couple songs by groups such as X-Japan, Luna Sea, L'arc~en~Ciel and Buck Tick, though, so might just do a bit of research. Thank you.
As for H.P. Lovecraft fans (hardcore ones), that sounds about right. The same goes for a lot of 'horror' enthusiasts who worship one writer in particular, though. You should also see some of the Edgar Allan Poe fanatics. They always think that, for some reason, they are superior to everyone else.
>>591 I can do the single tap that some Japanese words require, but not the apparent flutter of the tongue on the roof of the mouth for the rolling. I'm kind of glad it's not just me with these problems, though...
And yes. I'd love to visit St. Petersburg sometime. From what I've heard about the Hermitage museum, it's quite spectacular, as well as the architecture there in general. Sooner rather than later, hopefully, as the girl from the train offered to show me around...
I expect Japan's your next destination, so you can put all your practice and learning to the test?
As for Japanese pronunciations, rya, ryu, and ryo are supposed to be the hardest to say for foreign japanese learners. By themsleves, it's not so hard to say "ryo" but to say "inryoku / 引力" is a challenge!! For me at least.
>>568 "Catcher in the Rye"? are you sure you are american? I read it when I was 7th grade. I thought all the american kids read it in English class around age of 10 - 13 or something...
>>597 Actually, りゃ、りゅ、りょ are not that easy for me as a native Japanese sometimes. When I mumble or don't pay much attention, for some reason, my "りゅう" sounds like "due" to some people. I don't know how that happens.
>米人さん I tried reading Doraemon, but the story line just didn't grab my attention. Gomen
ROLF! Yeah, I agree. "Honey and Clover" is much better for a woman of your age. I'd recommend "Gokusen". It'hilarious and the boy, Sawada Shin is so cool. He is my ideal type of guy. Looks like one of Jonny's jimusho guy. Oh...but the Japanese itself is too barbaric because the story is about the highschool gang kids and Yakuza family.
>>595 Deja view. The feeling that you've read an identical post in an earlier thread.
>>596 Hai! Ikitai! But I don't know when I'll have the money or freedom to go. A few decades down the road, if you see an elderly lady (sensibly dressed) rambling around the back roads and historical sites of Japan, trying her very best to use her fractured Japanese, why that will probably be me.
>>597 I have only recently mastered something like the regular Japanese r. What is it about that letter that makes it so troublesome in all the different languages?
>>600 I am so glad you brought up "Gokusen", because I watched the drama (the first one) and I could swear that when Nakama Yukie is in yakuza mode, she uses a very rough style of speech that sounds to me like it has lots of rolled r's (rrrrr...). Is that right? Or is it a tt sound that is sounding like an r to me? I've always wondered. I liked the drama a lot; didn't know that it was a manga too. I thought Matsumoto Jun was great in the drama as Sawada Shin (and he is a Johnny's jimusho boy), even though I don't like his singing very much.
>>603 oh so, you have seen the drama first. The original story is from Manga, by Morimoto Kozueko(very rare name). umm...IMO, Matsumoto Jun was ok, but he was not as good as the original character of Shin in manga. I probably just don't like Matsumoto Jun much (I can't some intelligence from him).
>>602 really? umm... I didn't know that. I thought 引力 was not something between men and women. I thought in that case we should use the word such as 魅力 or 誘引(力).
>>598 Different classes read different stories. xD Even in the same school, My class was reading "Their eyes were watching God", and other classes were reading "The Crucible"
>>599 That's sort of a relief. are their any other things that are hard to say in Japanese?
>>603 I also noticed that! When I watch various shows, sometimes guys are trying to sound tough/angry by they rolling their R's a lot!
>>611 Wow, he does? He must be a very popular guy then! The Bourne Ultimatum movie just opened today in Japan so I haven't seen it yet. According to the trailor, Bourne seems to have remembered his ture identity and everything else....sounds very interesting!
>>616 You may be right about Harvard, but what about the fact that his script won him the academy award? I think that tells us that at least he is not dumb.........
I'm a bit surprised that Matt Damon is generally recognized as ugly in US. I think there are jealousy and bad intention. But people won't(can't) say "ugly" to a guy like Jude Law even if they want to discredit him. so Matt has too many defects in his face.
Japanese are so vulnerable to the media coverage that they assume any (white) american celebrity is good looking.
>>612 Yeah! Iwas also waiting for this movie, Bourne Ultimatum. But I wonder why Matt Damon likes to play almost the same role on the more than one movies. Those are all men of CIA's agent with a dark past, right? It's so complicated. ^^;
>>614 Well...I have a different view about Matt Damon. He is a low-key guy with intelligence. But he is not handsome and his baby face won't apeal girls either... Actually he has no 華(charisma?). There was Tom Cruise with a superb acting skill, good looks, and charisma...but he is old by now but there is no good actor to take Tom's place, so probably Matt is the most appropriate actor for the moment.... I don't dislike him...but Tom is too charming!!! I hope the emergence of a new actor who is just like Tom in next generation...^^;(I mean I like Tom not just because his good looks. He is really talented and his inner expression is really something).
Tom is too charming? Seriously, you're joking right? He's a good actor, yes... Well, some of his movies are good. But if sanity is the price of good acting skills, I don't think it's worth it.
could you be more specific? why you don't think he is charming? He acts realllly great in all the movies, My favorite is; Magnolia, Collateral, Eyes wide shut *^^* In addition, have you ever seen how he bahaves of offstage? he is reeeaaalllyy caring and really warm hearted guy! Ask Toda Natsuko! she knows everyhing about TOM!! >.<
cult is nothing to do with his personality! he had to live with a pressure beyond our imagination since he was young, then now he is probably relieved after he found something he can believe. Well if it was wrong, he will know it later. So nothing wrong to believe in cult right now. It's just a side trip of his life.
Also do you know he has a handicap? can you imagine how hard he had to work just to live like a normal person? he puts tremendous efforts into memorizing the script, I think. I do admire him a lot!^^ Devoting himself into a cult is just a side trip of his life.
I wouldn't mind Tom Cruise if he stopped screaming, yelling and overacting in his style but I guess that would take away his whole career and leave him a choice to be a monk or something.
>>633 ahhh...I don't like Mr Right...you know. we can all say right things...Of course to be a member of a cult is wrong, we all know it. But we soemtimes do. and everybody hovor on our lives.. I said he has a handicap. that's not the reason to become a member of the cult but maybe one of the factors. He is on the way to discover the real thing of his life. I am a great fan of his, so I can wait until he'd learn by the mistakes.
>>636 He won't learn from his mistakes. The Scientologists treat their Holloywood stars like gods, so they act as publicity stunts.
The reason why I'm angry at him is because I've heard some really terrible things about what Scientologists do to their members from ex-members.
And the movies he does these days aren't so good. Like War of the Worlds. The main character didn't need to act in that movie. They just needed someone to freak out and run around in panic all the time.
>>637 I happen to know some Americans who claim themselves to be dyslectic, but I felt most of them were just using it as an excuse for not doing things right at school.
>>643 You don't know anything at all. if you'd stay with one of those people for a long time, you'd definitely tell. There is a clear difference between a normal person and a LD person.
Wouldn't changing the sign from "Japanese Only" to "Ethnically Japanese Only" be the same as businesses in England having a sign that says "White English Only?"
Matt Damon is truly one smart guy (and a good actor). He's made excellent career choices (unlike his good friend Ben Affleck). Plus, when he won the Academy Award for "Good Will Hunting", he and Ben brought their moms to the Academy Award Ceremony as their dates--what's not to love about a guy like that?
Tom Cruise does have dyslexia, and I'm sure it isn't easy for him as I know many people with it--my dad, my sister, my husband, a good friend of mine...it's really common here. But that still doesn't excuse the bonehead stuff that comes out of his mouth. For example, he got in a big fight with Brooke Shields not long ago over whether post-partum depression existed or not (he claimed it didn't, based on his vast experience of giving birth I suppose). I feel sorry for his wife, Katie Holmes.
About dyslexia, it appears to be worse for people who speak languages in which combinations of letters can be pronounced in different ways, such as English (through, though, bough) and French. It's not so bad for, say, Italian speakers where the pronounciation is less variable. I would guess it is less common in Japan too (although I wonder how it is trying to read kanji if you are dyslexic...easier? harder?).
I reckon the people getting discriminated against (even though they hold Japanese citizenship) are the ones caring.
As well as all the Black, South Asians, East Asians, Arabs and all other non-White British citizens who still get shit because of they're race.
Then again I've never had discrimination problems in Japan. Just some difficult realestate agents/ land lords. But that's just business (and a little predjudice, but mostly business).
I have no intention of becoming a Japanese citizen so what do I care. Still I'd be annoyed if I did and still got messed with.
I think the Japanese government (not the people as whole) would kick out all non-Japanese if they could. Or just keep the ones they need for cheap factory labor, resturant work and cleaners.
Of course then they wouldn't have anyone to blame for the increasing crime rate in Japan.
>>652 There isn't a country in the world that wouldn't kick out all the foreigners. They're cheap labour and generate resentment from the local population. By the very term "foreigners" you imply that they are different or have trouble assimilating. You don't think the US, Britain or Australia, or even many European countries, has a group of people on the street and even in government that wouldn't kick out all the muslims or poorer ethnic communities based on some crappy stereotypes? OF course, in these countries, there are people who can see past the stereotypes, just as there are those kind of people in Japan. Just like in Japan, other countries, other governments use foreigners and particular ethnic groups as scapegoats. They only need to use generic PC terms like "undesirables" and let popular imagination do the rest. Stop acting like Japan is the only country where there is racism.
>>654 Well duh. Just look at history. Everytime some people not from Europe have let white people into their lands, they end up ruining the place!
If I ever went to Japan myself, I'd go as a tourist, so I don't think I'd have much to worry about. They'd see me being a dumbass and wearing bicycle shorts and a big backpack with a camera around my neck, and they'd know to not care.
>>646 Just one last comment on this from me. Britain has several centuries worth of history where foreigners have integrated with the local population, before and even including the Roman empire. There were Vikings, Anglo-Saxons, French, and people who came back from the Crusades. I think all this has contributed to the UK and its acceptance of foreigners. Black people who were kidnapped and brought back from Africa as slaves took a long time to be accepted once slavery was abolished, and even now they suffer a lot of racial abuse from people. After being isolated for so long, you can only expect similar from some people in Japan towards outsiders. Of course, as >>653 says, there is always a population who does not like such things happening, but the majority doesn't mind.
As for 'White British only', you only have to go and see anything the BNP is involved with for that. People usually have more sense than to actually go there and start trouble on purpose, though. I'm not saying it's a good thing; it's just something that happens in most societies at some point, and can only be waited out. No amount of protesting is going to make them change their minds. In fact, it might only make them hate you even more.
Anyway, hopefully back to pleasant talk. I bumped into the brother of a friend earlier, and his girlfriend, and they were proud of their cat giving birth to a litter of kittens. He had a video on his phone, and instead of looking cute, it looked like a horde of tiny demons eating the mother cat and wasn't cute at all...
Wait... so the Romans and Vikings "integrated" into England. They didn't, you know, INVADE the bloody country. Why didn't you let the Germans integrate during WW2? They were flying all the way from mainland Europe to spread multiculturalism.
Also, cats are evil. They don't just look like demons, they ARE hellspawn.
>>659 They invaded, yes, but they didn't really segregate the communities much. In fact, there was a lot of inter-marriage between the communities. Which isn't quite what Hitler had in mind between Aryans, Jews and Slavs.
There is a pretty big difference between a BNP club house and an eye glasses shop, or a sento or whatever other place that some one has written a letter to the editor in the Japan Times.
>>230 There is no greater propaganda in the PRC than the truth.
>>592 Most of us cats can purr, it is true. It is hard to explain it to humans. Humans are not quite as developed as cats, so a lot of them are unable to purr due to primitive biological differences. It's not really very useful anyway. We just do it to show off to humans who can't.
>>658-659 Cuter than hairless human kittens. Ours squeak in a cute manner and only take a couple days to become irresistibly cute.
And to the human who will soon say "You are stupid and not funny", you are the one who is missing out on delicious Nyanko-meshi. Not me.
Tom will perform as a german offier that the germans at that time hated the most. Even though the german officer was a traitor and disloyal to aryan martyer, he bore a true aryan feature on his face.
Tom is absolutely handsome but he has grinny, cheap smile. Plus, he is short and short-legged. The man of irish descent with indian blood must not perform as an aryan soldier. He is genetically inferior so his IQ is low and he is physically weak.
OUR CHINESE PARTIZANES ATTACKED JAPANESE ARMY VERY STRONGLY BECAUSE JAPS KILLED MANY MANY INNOCENT CIVILIANS. WE NEVER RAPED LITTLE GIRLS, AND NEVER CUT CITIZENS DICKS, BUT U JAPS DID!! SO GOD WILL PUNISH U ALL FUCKING’ CRIMINALS!!!!!! CHINA AND KOREA 4EVER!!!! FUCK JAPS!!!!
>WE NEVER RAPED LITTLE GIRLS, AND NEVER CUT CITIZENS DICKS That's what you also did to japanese residents and went on doing to your own civillians after the war. Also Beijing is using the pictures of japanese victims as chinese victims.
Well you personally didn't rape little girls (well you might of, or at least drool over jr.high school girls; there is no way to terll really). But the Japanese did do the whole comfort women thing. And I doubt they checked to see if each girl was over 18.
ex-boyfriend the other day. He has asked someone's help and advice, like me... Because he is really worried about his job these days. Such as he's thinking of going to quit his job and so on. To tell the truth, I broke up with him about 5 months ago. He's 5 years yonger than me. He graduated from university in Nagoya,and decided to start new job in Osaka last spring. After few months later, he got transferd to Nara. He was really busy from then on. (He is still busy now) He couldn't take a day off,and had to work overtime. So it was so hard to keep relations between him and me at that time. But we still keep in touch by e-mail once in a while.
I wish I could help his matter. But I couldn't advice to him easily... I hope to it turns out well!
I'm sorry for writing my poor English diary. Thank you for reading.
If you didn't rape anyone when you went to war, you missed out. Every great army has done it throughout history. Chinese men conquered cities and towns, and they still couldn't get laid. How sad.
Kitano Takeshi rules! This is a video before he was seriously injured by a traffic accident so his face was not distorted. The woman appeares around the end of the video who wears a red bandana is Fumie Hosokawa and it was reported back then that the traffic accdent occured when he was on his way to her place.
I broke up with someone recently. Actually, we have seen very little of each other for about a year. But sometimes I miss her so much I can hardly resist imagining her being next to me and making love to me. Sad...
>>713 you sure about that? I think I'm gonna live without love for the rest of my life. but anyway, thanx for your kind and hearty encouragement. I really appreciate it. Good night.
I am not spoiled at all. It is you westerns who are spoiled. You can easily go to japan as english teacher all of you. You can actually travel all the world be being an english teacher. that's unfair. X_X
>>718 We can't anymore. They brought down NOVA, so our nesting grounds are ruined. And you're more than welcome to go anywhere in the West. There are plenty of dumb airhead girls and geek girls who will go out with you because you're japanese and nothing else.
But there are a lot of other eikaiwa schools and JET programm. One of my english teacher is american who traveled a lot simply by being an english teacher. He been to Bulgaria, Prague, Italy, Russia, China, Taiwan and Japan.
>>710 Sorry dude, the harsh reality is, right now she's making love to a stud she just met a couple of days ago and you know how she gets wild and all that. My point is, go get some booty as well!
>>718 You ARE spoiled in my opinion. You can't even find your job on your own. You can't work out your own future by yourself. By the way, I'm not westerner but Japanese.
>>723 Yeah. I go to uni, but I'm going to fail this semester. I didn't do any of the tutorials or assignments, and I never showed up to the lectures. My exams are this week :D
>>729 You must have done something wrong. I bet being a NEET next year will be a fantastic time full of adventure and wonder. And I hate the girls at Uni. They're so fucking stupid, it hurts to overhear their dumb conversations.
>>730 I did nt show for any exams. lol I hate my uni too... Btw to go to japan as teacher you need to have degree, i think. Basically if you interested in japan you should go!!!
>>731 I thought it was opposite. You had to be a complete idiot and not have stayed in Japan for longer than a certain amount of time. Apparently the "dumb clueless gaijin" is a more authentic way of learning English.
I went to the JET website. You need a bachelor's degree. lol, that rules me out. I can't think about a bachelor's degree, I'm preparing to drop out of uni in two weeks!
>>734 I don't care if they don't pay attention to me. They're still stupid. Stupidity is like second hand smoke. Even if you aren't dumb yourself, you still feel unhealthy around people who are.
>>736 I don't care if I can repeat the year again or not. I want to leave Uni and that's it. Uni life is horrible. I'm poor, I'm miserable, and all the clubs at uni suck. I have more fun browsing the internet and talking to people online than I do with idiots fresh out of high school at uni.
>>740 Become a rock star, man! The band is really gonna make it!
Seriously, I don't know. Get a job. I don't care about a stupid degree. I was in a shit course to begin with. I want to get a job and get some actual money, then decide what I do from there. Besides, I'm going to fail two of my units, so it's not like I can go back to uni anyway.
>>742 I'm from Australia. I'm also studying History. I hate it, and no one ever talked to it because during one tutorial I said out loud how much I hated it, hated uni, and that if we didn't start to do some work (so I could leave quicker) I was going to launch a chair through the window.
Well, *I* thought it was funny, and that's all that matters.
The worst thing about a history degree is that you can't use it for anything. Everyone who does history here becomes history teachers, and I hate stupid high school kids.
Cause I had the marks for it, and everyone is supposed to go to Uni. I also used to like history, before I had to learn how to write it into a stupid essay.
>>737 You guys have awesome architectures of the Orthodox Church. They are fantastic and magnificent. So now give us some pictures of hot Russian girls too.
>>761>>763 Her eyes are very cool. Is she a supermodel?
>>765 Okay. I wonder if her Japanese is revised by her husband. It's perfect.
But sorry for interrupting thr convo about your college lives, btw. I think it's a good idea to take a break until you find out what you really want to do.
>>772 Are you from overseas? How did you know niconico video I wonder.
Anyway, as you know, you can comment on a video clip. バーロー is a cuss word. So maybe someone who write the word as a comment wanted to express their hatred, unsatisfaction, or things like that to the people/person in the video.
自重means something like to behave oneself such as trying to keep your mouth shut even though you have something to say. But in reality, he wrote "自重" as a comment, so that way, he didn't expression his specific opinion about the video or person in the video, but he can't help but writing something about the video. So when you have something to say but avoid writing a specific comment, you would wirte 自重 kind of sarcasticly.
I'm sure バーローis just a cuss word but as for 自重、 I haven't seen it written on a niconico video, so I need context to explaint to you right. (I'm not a heavy user of niconico although I have my account there.) If you need further explanation, put a link to a specific video. I'll check it.
>>772 バーロー is a qiuick snap of the slang expression, 馬鹿野郎. It's probably originated in Edo/Tokyo dialects but now widely seen as a 2ch term, meaning "you idiot".
自重 could also be used to urge someone to restrain his/her inconsiderate comment, especially when it is obviously directed towards others; 自重しろ
You're just another white geek with an Asian fetish.
"Oh, I want to live Tokyo, I want a Japanese wife..." And now you're just going to get your daddy to make your dreams come true, what a fuck you are!
You know what, a lot dorky white guys want to live in Japan and fuck Japanese women. But unless you got something to offer, you're never gonna get a visa. You can't even speak Japanese. Why should Japan let you in? Japan doesn't need you.
You don't you join the mafia and sell drugs and prostitutes like the rest of the Russians in Japan?
Having arrived in Tokyo from Seoul about a year ago, Il Yeong Eun, like many foreigners who come to Japan, soon encountered a major difficulty — housing discrimination. South Korean student Il Yeong Eun speaks of housing discrimination against foreigners in her apartment in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward. Il, 25, together with two South Korean friends who also came to Japan around that time, visited three real estate agencies to rent an apartment in Shinjuku Ward. But the agencies turned them away because they were foreigners. "I never expected to be refused," said Il, who goes to a Japanese language school in the ward. "I felt like I was treated like a criminal." Fortunately, she found a one-bedroom flat through a real estate agency that one of her friends introduced her to. The firm's South Korean employee takes care of foreign customers by teaching them Japanese customs related to living in rental apartments. Japan's foreign population is steadily increasing. Government data show the number of registered foreign residents stood at 2.08 million in 2006, up from 1.48 million a decade ago. Nonetheless, housing discrimination against foreigners is surprisingly strong even in Tokyo. According to a 2006 survey conducted by Tokyo-based nonprofit organization Information Center for Foreigners in Japan, 94 percent, or 220 respondents, out of 234 foreigners in Tokyo who visited real estate agents said they were refused by at least one agent.
>>780 We turn away foreigners in our country too. It has something to do with the fact that they have no work and poor communication skills that make getting a decent income to pay the rent a bit more difficult.
Those Koreans must have misunderstood Japan was part of Korea or something. It is quite common for a foreign student in the US or Europe to not be able to rent an apartment without a co-signer or guarantor who is a citizen of the country. Sure it sucks but they do it for business.
I have seen a japanese speech contest by foreigners on TV. Many foreigners talked about good things about japan or compare its culture to their own culture and analized (the uniqueness of) japanese culture. But the only korean(s) were claiming a barrier free enviroment for foreigners. They said japan was still undeveloped and demanded an enviroment which is convient for them. Japanese may have to exercise more efforts. But the only one way efforts? And I wonder their theme was appropriate for the place which is generally for building understanding between each others.
Maybe if foreigners wouldn't stop paying their rent and then run back to their own countries, landlords and realestate agents would be more inclined to rent to them.
>>799 Yes, today is my birthday. I will eat cake at least. plus I will change my personality.
I was living in a dream until now. I am a poet. but I'll be more practical person. Before, I couldn't do the math. My math was like this; 1+1=3 1-1= 0.000001 3+1=0 but I will do math properly like 3+1=4 fom now on.
>>804 yes! some ppl enjoy my poem. if you want I can put another poems here. I have millions of those. ^^ it would takes a while to translate them into English though.
>>805 No maybe you can go to the Japanese poem thread, Not here. Although your poem is good, it's rather too sentimental and people here are owners of paper hearts, so nobody would understand your poem except me. sorry.
>>805 but didn't you say you are no longer a poet? you'll live in a reality? it would contadict with what you said. anyway if you would like to make poem and do the business with it, it would be one of realistic way of living.
ok ok I'll do so. thanks for your advice. it's no use to write a poet here but when I have to release my stress, I would write a poem and post it on the japanese thread.
>>813 I doubt it coz I just watched her latest clip. It was an English lesson, so maybe she came down here to promote herself. Actually, I tend to like her, though it seems like there are lots of haters.
Mijime de muyo de yurusenai hitoribocchi wa koroshimashou koroshite kudasai (misery, needless, and unforgivable let's kill the lonesome pls kill the lonesome)
This part is esp good. rhyming too^^
>惨メデ、無様デ、遣ル瀬ナイ ヒトリボッチハ! 殺シマショウ 殺シテ、クダサイ
Mijime de muyo de yurusenai hitoribocchi wa koroshimashou koroshite kudasai (misery, needless, and unforgivable let's kill the lonesome pls kill the lonesome)
you know (I'm sure all the Japanese would understand without any difficulties) but the poem of above "hitoribocchi" is that he's been taling about himself. The "jigyaku" poem. self-abuse. I guess in western countries there is no custom like that. I feel people in north america won't say self-deprecating humor a lot. in Japan, it's very common.
Yeah, I just want to be a normal friend with Emily. Is she an ordinary girl? or a girl that is saying lies all the time? and throw dust in someone's eyes? if she's just a sincere person, I would be staying her fan. but how can I trust her? is there a way to trust what she says?
>>831 She's a fucknut. I've heard she hates her fans and calls them all losers. Besides, she's just a typical cardboard cutout of a wapanese fangirl. She's all charm and cutesy shit, no personality.
>>833 Oh yeah? I had a feeling that she got some kind of one nagative element that has not taken away. Maybe that is some greedy desire she owns to be famous, or lack of sincerity, intelligence.
>>831 Only because she want someone to look up to her. She is similar to Russian in this thread because she only wants Japanese man. And she admit to having disease from sleeping around too much. There is no sincerity. Only deceit and lies for try make people pity or like her
In the good old days, very few Japanese knew about Alien Registration Cards — you know, those wallet-size documents all non-Japanese residents must carry 24/7 or face arrest and incarceration. Back then, a "gaijin card" was only something you had to show a bored cop doing random racial profiling on the street. Legally, in fact, it still is. According to the Foreign Registry Law (Article 13), only officials granted police powers by the Justice Ministry can demand to see one. But in its quest to make Japan "the world's safest country again" (without similarly targeting Japanese crime) and to stem hordes of "illegal foreigners" (even though figures for overstayers have been falling since 1993), the government has recently deputized the entire nation. From now on, foreigners must endure frequent "gaijin-carding" at work. Not to mention passport checks and copying of personal ID documents. This open season on gaijin, as well as on terrorists and carriers of contagious diseases (which somehow also means the gaijin), has gone beyond fomenting the image that non-Japanese are merely untrustworthy. It has created policy creep. Gaijin-hunters in their zeal are stretching or breaking established laws.
Backtrack: After years of alleging heinous foreign crime and terror (Zeit Gist, Feb. 20, 2007), the government first deputized the public in 2005 (ZG, March 8, 2005). Laws regarding hotels were revised to require passport numbers and photocopies from all "foreign tourists" (i.e. people without addresses in Japan). However, police immediately stretched the law, telling hotels to demand passports from all foreigners. Some hotels threaten refusals if the gaijin doesn't cough up his card. Now — as of Oct. 1 — the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has chipped in, deputizing workplaces. Under the Employment Policy Law ("Koyo Taisaku Ho" — see the MHLW Web site ), all employers ("jigyo nushi") hiring, firing, or currently employing non-Japanese (except Special Permanent Residents and diplomats) must check their visa status, verifying that they are neither overstaying nor working outside their visa parameters. This means filing a report at Hello Work, the MHLW's unemployment agency. Information on all foreign staff, including name, date of birth, gender, nationality, visa status and expiration date, confirmation that all work is permitted under the visa, and employer's name and address, must be provided — on pain of penalties up to \300,000.
Proponents of the law, claiming it will "support the rehiring and better administration of foreign workers," might well deter employers exploiting overstayers under the table. But in practice, the policy stretch has already begun. For example, Regular Permanent Resident immigrants — who have no visa restrictions placed on their employment and cannot possibly "overstay" — must also be reported.Another issue is that the law merely requires employers "check" the visa status of their foreign staff. There is no requirement for foreigners to physically hand over any personal documents. Yet several people have contacted me to say employers have demanded both their gaijin card (which for ID purposes works the same as a passport) and their passport for photocopying.Furthermore, these "checks" are already not limited to your main employer or visa sponsor. I have received reports that any gaijin payment requires photocopied visa verification. In one case for a sum as low as \500! Yet my legal counsel confirmed with the MHLW that checking isn't required for part-time work.
Conclusion: If hunting foreigners means tracking every yen they earn, this new and improved "gaijin card checkpoint" system goes far beyond the cop on the corner. It even voids the gaijin card. What's the point of its existence if "verification" necessitates passports too? The justifications for this new system are these: You've got to make sure foreigners aren't working outside of their official Status of Residence. As we have reported even taking a quick part-time job can be a visa violation in certain cases. Photocopies are apparently necessary because employers need proof on file if they get nobbled by the cops. (As if the police won't ask the foreign staff for their original documents if a raid actually happens.) Moreover, sometimes gaijin cards and passports differ in detail, like when the visa status changes in the passport, but the bearer neglects to report it to the Ward Office. But if all these loopholes needed closing, they should have been encoded in the law. They weren't, so demanding anything beyond a visual display of your gaijin card is policy overreach. Now the floodgates are open: Unrelated places, such as banks, cell phone companies, sports clubs and video stores now illegally require gaijin cards for any service, even when other forms of ID — such as driver's license or health insurance booklet — would suffice for Japanese. What's next, fingerprinting?
Sure, policymakers are treating non-Japanese residents as criminals, terrorists, and filth columnists of disease and disorder — through fingerprinting on arrival, gaijin-house ID checkpoints, anonymous "snitch sites" (ZG, March 30, 2004), DNA databases (ZG, Jan. 13, 2004), IC chips in gaijin cards (ZG, Nov. 22, 2005) and now dragnets through hotels and paychecks. But there are still vestiges of civil liberties guaranteed by law here. Know about them, and have them enforced. Or else non-Japanese will never be acknowledged or respected as real residents of Japan, almost always governed by the same laws as everyone else.
Howdy, I am a gaijin myself, I will admit that I do not live in Japan, and only spent a little time there. However, I must attest that while I was there, many Japanese people seemed petrified of me. I would ask for directions, and people would be too freaked out to give them to me! Well I must admit that they probably thought I wouldn't understand, but I asked in Japanese, so who knows.I'm not even that scary looking (for an otaku). OTZ Anyway, my point is that Japan can be a xenophobic culture, despite it's numerous advancements. Feel free to e-mail me if you agree/disagree
Hmmm. These measures have been taken in advance in America or proposed first. And Europe is more getting tighter to immigrants and tourists. No wonder in this uncertain days.
>>851 We are very afraid of speaking English. We are not good at English, still needs perfection. Japanese English education system is based on bad-mark system.
So we run away. If there is no use of English, no mistake. Like this.
>>845 Do Russians use a cell phone? Maybe in rural area they don't, but since Moscow is the capital, lots of people can afford it, I guess?
Even if you do, maybe Russians cel phone is almost the size of a travel bag. lol
Japanese cell phone is getting real small due to technological advancement. Actually, I can't see my cell phone, without a micrscope. Sometimes advancede technology makes your life too hard.
I think that's a very interesting opinion. It seems to me that Japan may be running away from it's two defeats at the hands of America (WWII, and a defeat of culture when General Perry sailed to Japan.). I'm not trying to start a fight here, but I think Japan may be scared of it's "conqueror". Once again, no offence.
Can you imagine how japanes reacts when asked by foreigners at station?
"get on?, take on?, terminal??? get off??? change???what, what??what??? what was the correct set words? I can't miss!! I don't wanna be ashamed!!" Many words go around in cricles in the brain of japanese. They get panicked.
>>851 As 853 says, I am definately sure it was not you that they were scared of but the possibility they might have had to speak in English that they were scared of.
Although I have to admit that we are not accustomed to talking with foreigners whether in English or Japanese, I wouldn't call that xenophobia.
>>855 I am not convinced of your opinion. Because the Japanese whom you thought scared of you didn't know if you are American or Auzies, New Zealanders, or Canadian. Whether you are Caucasion or not is what matters cause Caucasian resembles our having to speak in English.
Oh believe me, I'm nothing to be scared of (Little wimpy otaku) Also, I'm definitely not bragging about my country. Japan has far fewer problems then America. I'm just saying a subtle cultural fear may be there.
>>854 Are you kidding me? Everyone use cell phones in russia even workers in rural areas and they are small and advanced. Russia is not primitive country anymore
>>863 I heard in china cellor phones are spreading faster than land phones. Because cellor phone needs less money and capital. How about in Russia? I suppose russa's situation is different from china. I suppose at least land phones are all across the country.
>>873 I will find a job there. I am learning japanese and studying in the most prestigious university in russia. I want to move especially to Tokyo because it is big cool city. I sound dumb I know but that is my dream. I will visit Tokyo this summer or autumn...
>>882 >>What if girls here ignores you. That's very likely. I am really handsome so I doubt that. :P I am sound naive because I am still a sophomore in University. I never worked in real life. MY life just started :P But I saw so many japanese movies that I virtually was here... Also I read many japanese authors.
>>887 think logically. We have tons of magazines and many of them are from US Like Vogue. How it is possible to control everything? Maybe only the first channel is controlled by Putin but that's all.
China is open to sexual things. But political dissidents' voices are censored.
Russia is a democratic country. But it's unthinkable that all main media support putin. and the suspicious deaths of anti-goverment journalists and former spies both in Russia and abroad. And the collapses and flourishments of the companies determined by the government hand.
These stories are from the west european media. Rusians also have lots to say about these.
>>890 I agree with you that for foreign investors there is a trouble. But generally speaking we have freedom of speech. Politkovskaya was killed by chechen mafia, not by the government. I also agree that death of Litvinenko is horrible...
>>889 Fashion magazine is irrelavant. Media that critisize his government has been always censored and controled. How can you say you have freedom of speech when Russian TV are all Putin's dog.
KGB tried to kill Ukrane presidency candidate, although that attempt failed. He was alomost killed by poison. He used to be a real handsome guy but now his face is swallen and you can't tell if he is the same person as what he used to be.
His policy was against the interests of Russia so that's why he was almost killed by KGB.
Russia is not a democratic country. Russia is a country of regime of terror.
You will be surely disappointed when you see the reality.
Plus Japanese women don't like Russians. They prefer English and other Western Europeans as well as Austrialians/New Zealanders and Americans. Even White S. Africans have a better chance than you. Eastern Europeans are not popular.
Japanese women don't want to go to Russia or get a visa for Russia so they don't date Russian men.
Unless you have a lot of money and buy girls lots of handbags. Then you can easy get a Japanese wife
You will be resorted to buying your own Russian prostitutes.
>>904 I can always hang out with other gaijins :P Anyway I can say anything about tokyo until I will go there and see everything myself. Maybe I will be disappointed.
Anyway I am so tired of Moscow that changing decoration will be good idea. I want to live in Tokyo at least for 5 years and then see what to do next...
Well actually you can't, that's his point. Since you've never been (and going for a short vaction, isn't going to teach you shit) nothing you can say will carry any weight.
>>905 Are you blond? if so, it works infavor of you in Japan.
If you are bookwarm type, you are hopeless.
Japanese girls like young version of Brad Pitt. His hair is not blond but you can tell why he's popular here, can you? He is sexy, athletic type, nice smiles.
>>936 I am not spoiled lol. I study japanese a little. I can understand simple sentences. I have studied japanese for 6 months and know about 400 kanji.
>>937 I am not an engineer. But I am going to use help from my parents to get a job, thats for sure. Who knows maybe these people used their parents abilities too It is natural for parents to help children
Well so do 90% of all uni students. Except the rest of us can't sit back in university and expect to just have our parents get us jobs. We have to work and plan for our futures without daddy holding our hands throughout our adult lives.
>>949 In russia the situation is different from the USA. In russia you have to sit through the classes when you are in the first, second, third year. Only after it you can look for work. I am in the second year.
My doctor says its stress related and has perscribed pills, but I don't like the sides effects so I don't take them as often as I should. So instead of lying in bed starting at the ceiling I watch tv or troll the internet.
Is it true Sharapova is not so popular in Russia? Probably because she is originally Ukranian and can't speak Russian as good as English. She keeps staying in USA and rarely returns to Russia.
I read a posting by japanese 2channler that Sharapova is not special in Russia and you can see many that level everywhere in Russia . I think she is beautiful and the media all over the world are admitting it. I don't think Sharapova is ordinary looking in Russia. First of all, She is extraordinary tall.. lol