Hey!!! All you NEETs, nerds, YouTube link spammers, pedophiles, neo-Nazis, Yukorin enthusiasts, Nanako SOS admirers, Part-Time-Preachers, Diplomats' spoiled sons, losers who can't remember Kanji characters, Big-boobs fans, Weeaboo from around the world, learners of Japanese who are too lazy to update their Japanese blogs very often, cunning linguists, stupid fan girls of Johnny's Boys, Touhou pirates, and that electrical super-gay who suffers from mental disease - This is your thread! Let's hope the Internet-addicted housewife will come back soon!
Curious to say, Japan, which is under the US nuclear umbrella, is calling on the world leaders to abolish nuclear arms, although the Japanese government says that Japan upholds the three non-nuclear principles.
>>19 Well, all in all, in Europe, gay people avoid/don't like muslims, because muslims hate gay! You will find out there are few arabs showing their pics on gay dating sites. I have several arab gay friends there but they can't come out in their community.
And if you are a straight lady, take it to heart that they are such anit-feminists.
>For over 100 years there has been a treaty (or agreement/pact) between The Netherlands and Japan. >In it, it says that all citizens of both countries can live and work in eachother's countries. >The Netherlands forgot that for a second.
>The treaty was found during a conflict between the labour inspectorate and the Japanese cultural centrum Shofukan. >They employed 3 Japanese carpenters, and the labour inspectorate said they needed a license/permission for that (for employing the Japanese). >But apparently they didn't need one, which was reported in a newspaper named "Trouw". >The trade treaty/agreement would be about the same as the one The Netherlands has with Switzerland.
>The old treaty was 'discovered' by lawyer Julien Luscuere. He doesn't expect that The Netherlands will be flooded with more Japanese people because of this discovered treaty. >He says: "Maybe a few dozens of Japanese people would come to The Netherlands as well, but that would only bring positive effects for the mutual ties between the countries and the economy".
>>27 So apparently you are right and it does mean that both countries can stay and even work in eachother countries without permission. Pretty interesting stuff, how did you find it?
By the way, PowNed is a bit of a right-wing website (and also has a late-night TV newsshow) that often uses jokes and makes fun of recent news items (and sometimes not), but atleast this article is pretty serious (except the image on top I guess). I would describe the site's comment section a bit like 2ch's.
>>31 Ohhhh, thanks a lot!! Well, I have some close Dutch friends who report latest news to me. What a lovely discovery! And I hope it actually works (^ヮ^*) I start my summer trip in Europe everytime from Amsterdam♪
They mention morrocan people, HAHA (≧▽≦) I was robbed of my bag with passport, cash, cards. etc. in Amsterdam in 2013. When I told the story to dutch guys, they always asked me like "were they Moroccan??" In fact they were BLACK, grrrr!!!
The sharp appreciation of the yen will deal a heavy blow to the export-oriented companies. On the contrary, the unexpected depreciation of the yen caused the currency unrest in Asia in 1997.
Compared with the Tokyo Olympics in 1964, the government will issue deficit covering bonds in the Tokyo Olympics in 2020. After the Pacific war, the government issued deficit covering bonds for the first time in 1965 reflecting Securities depression.
>>41>>42 Basically it's the government checking if there aren't illegal workers in this country. Normally you can't just come live here and work.
>>35 Sorry to hear that. Unfortunately there are people like that in this country, and sad but true; but usually foreigners of certain countries. Those kind of things happen more in the city than outside though (Amsterdam is a prime example which is also full of foreigners nowadays). I don't have anything against any foreigners, except if they come here to do bad things...
If the article was about an African or Arab country instead of Japan, people would be pissed in the comments and want that treaty gone. People of The Netherlands see Japanese as a hardworking and honorable country. The comments on the article were positive.
2ch has been so unstable nowadays that i happened to create a filthy twitter account and begin to tweet some futile things. nobody exactly give a damn about my rubbish but i can get various information which is valuable to me.
About thirty years ago, many Japanese seemed to think that they were in the middle-income bracket. And now, the disparity in wealth between haves and have-nots was growing rapidly, fostering a hotbed of social unrest.
Police say that youngsters are apt to become drug addicts out of curiosity. The most formidable aspect of a stimulant drug is once you become an addict, you cannot do without it.
What to do when you think you're hated by someone? I think I might have upset this person. I won't give too many details cause I'm afraid to be identified. But I don't think I have done anything wrong or rude to him. Maybe I should have said thank you to what he's done for me but I don't think it's that. Ahh I always end up being hated by people. I have more enemies than allies. Why why why...
I was just googling how to deal with a person who doesn't like you and stuff. Once I start worrying about things, I just can't stop. Specifically about people related problems like this. What about me makes people hate me? Should I just throw myself in front of the train?
hey, exceptionally gifted native english speakers! is this sentence grammatically correct? "Mario was a friendly guy and he offered us to guide wherever we wanted to go."
>>56 >"Mario was a friendly guy and he offered us to guide wherever we wanted to go." Mario was a friendly guy, he offered to guide us wherever we wanted to go.
Former Prime Minister Eisaku Sato's visit to Okinawa in 1965 made the United States feel the importance of the US military bases in Okinawa for the security in Asia. The US administration was very sensitive his speech, hoping for the return of Okinawa to Japan.
I've been absent from this threat for a long while. I'm glad to see the name of イギリス人 again! He seems to be able to write in 2ch, thanks to the transition of ownership. Or is he using ronin software?
Nagoya has reputation for juvenile atrocious crimes such as nagaragawa murders and Nagoya couple murdesr, etc. These compare to concrete encased shoolgirl incident in Adachi ward, Tokyo.
Then eating mean another Jeffrey Dahmer in Japan? イギリス人 must be as handsome as Jeffrey. I wonder why a handsome guy like him had to suffer mental illnes steming fro human relatinoship. I guess Jeffrey would have been popular in Japan and he needed not have murdered dozens of people. He could be a charisma gay!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osaka,_Aichi,_and_the_Gifu_continuous_torture-murder_event Principal offender is from Aichi prefecture, which prefectural capital is Nagoya. Nicely he was senteced to be neckhanged eventhough he was under 20 at the time muders happened. He spoke very rude words before the relative of the victims in court because he knew he won't be senteced death penality because of his age and get out of prison after ten years or so. He changed the attitude to survive after death penality was sentenced at high court...Its too late.
The 2020 Olympics will be held in Tokyo, Japan. But, because of dwindling birth rates and longer life expectancies, elderly people over 65 will constitute one fourth of the total population of Japan in 2020.
>>64 I'm here to see what there is to see, and also to do some work. So far this (last) year, I've only been sightseeing in the Tokai region. It seems to be a beautiful area.
Additionally, I've never killed or eaten anyone. I just want to make that clear.
Wow, I actually thought that IQe7vLtE was GOD. It's difficult to feel angry with him though. This is 2ch, after all, so it's hard to take such posts seriously.
Name Seijo derives from a wealthy residential area in Tokyo, which boasts residents of celebs and high-salary business people. I can't pick up the names off the top of my head. Takashima family is from Seijo and Tokoro George, commedian who is not funnny at all for me. Commodities from Seijo Ishi tend to be much more expensive than odrinary stores.
Does Seijo Ishi exist in Tokai area? One existed near my living place, but it closed. Maybe there was less demand for it.
OH, recently Seijo Ishi was purchased by Aeon group, which comes from Mie prefecture next to Aichi prefecure. Okada Katsuya, former representative of Democratic party and now representative-elect , is from that family group. He has a strong base in hsi electoral districe in Mie. It's said his decisions has been influenced by business interest of his group.
Twenty years ago, search dogs, which arrived in Japan from Switzerland immediately after the killer-quake succeeded in discovering four bodies under the rubble in Kobe. On the other hand, grassroots volunteers did their best in conveying daily necessities to the quake suffers. But more than two weeks had passed before sufficient food and other supplies were provided evacuees living in temporary shelters.
I have a question. You say "Happy holidays!" as a greeting.
Why is the holiday plural form?
Is that because you refer to various holidays including Christmas, Hanuka, or other holidays piculiar to certaing religions? I mean, have to be plural because different religion has a different holiday in the time of year?
Or is that because the holiday period consists of multiple days?
>>86 I'm not either an English master or history learner. It's my guess. "Happy holidays" dates back to the days when multiculturalism or political correctness nonsense did not exist. So, your latter speculation seems to be right.
I look up the words in google and stumbled upon a good site. I was wrong. your first speculation seemes to be right. http://alcom.alc.co.jp/questions/show/18848 I guess jewish influence has been big rather than islam worshippers. It's imaginable that the first who felt offended by "Merry Chrsitmas" and said NO to "Merry Christmas" was jewish.They settled first and were regarded as white citizen. Christians are prone to listen to their voice as religious brother and jewish voice had gotten big in terms of finance and media too. I guess muslims jumped on the jewish band wagon. White christian americans can't exclude muslims while granting privillege to the jewish only.
In islam Jesus Christ is one of the revelators and saints. In judaism Jesus Christ is only an apostate and liar. I guess Jewish only have good reason to feel offened to "merry Christmas" while "merry Christmas" is trivial thing to muslims in the first place.
The French leader and other industrialized nations' leaders think that the terrorist attacks were carried out by elements loyal to the Islamic fundamentalists.
>>108 I thought it's cool to have it and I thought people who are not familiar with English exams find it super スゴイ!(actually it's not) and will give me tons of applauses! Lol
>>94 Thank you very much for taking your time seaching on the net. I read the link.
Yeah, it seems like "Merry Christmas" is replaced by "Happy holidays" these days for the religious reason as written in the linked post. But there's still a possibility that "holiday" is plural because the holiday season is consists of mutiple days. It's hard to explain what I mean in English.
>>118 I think he can live by it. Kokuren Eiken Toku A should be the toughest test. I don't even feel like trying it.
He will become neck to beck to English legend 安河内哲也. I got worried that his record would tell that he is the guy in 2ch. Early man in early twenties and lots of English citations..
>>127 Yep! You need some basic knowledges about the UN like in the writing test there are 10 questions regarding the functions of the UN or whatever
And in the interview test, interviewers asked me like the location of the headquarters of the UN, permanent countries etc etc but basically what they ask are like current international affairs like territorial disputes, historical issues and so on
>>128 I'm not into English teaching job or whatever
But hopefully I will get another job which gives me some opportunities to go abroad like on a business trip or whatever Or some translation work or whatever would be nice!
>>117 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_and_holiday_season#Happy_Holidays Many reasons seem to be interwinded. youor point of using plural is right too. Considering the fact using "Merry Christmas" is encouraged in public places, after all I think biggest reason is pressure from other religious groups.
>>129 Have you read quality publications like Time and New York Times? That's the thing I don't want to do. lol Do you think only listening to English news like nhk world, BBC news, ABC news would work in addition to basic knowledgement in U.N?
>>140 I was subscribing to the economist for a while but the contests are relatively difficult and also so many difficult expressions too. So many pages as well!!!!
So after passing the test, I changed to times instead! I read articles on mainly BBC and other pages literally A LOT!!!!
As for the knowledge of the UN, I got the 指定テキスト and did so many 過去問 until I remembered all of them completely. So I got 9 out 10 in the writing test. Yay
I only listen to BBC world and nhk one on podcast but there is no listening in the test so...yeah
>>136 I think Toeic full mark is easier than Kokuren Toku A. It should depen on people though. http://www.kokureneiken.jp/voices/ People with toku A have full score at high percent. There are many toeic full scorer withou toku A. Popularity and availability must be one reason. But no mark sheet exam must have discouraged them from passing toku A, even trying it.
>>141 Thank you for the useful info. So we have to read as well as listening. And from your experience, is web reading ony enough to pass the exam? Economist wwww.I feel dizzy. Are you an student or graduate from the department of economics?
>>144 Oh you are mistaken. The name of "the Economist" gives you the impression that it's full of business stuff but half of the contents are about current international affairs.
No I'm not a student anymore unfortunately but I was majoring in international studies at college!
Come to think of it, I should have majored in different studies...
>>143 i saw the page. but the people who posses toeic990 are 3/16. toeic990 is sooooo differ from 985. you may know but a toeic blogger VOZE-san struggled at 985 around 3 years.
>>145 Then, do you agree that only web-reading foreign media like BBC would work? I didn't even pass eiken 1級, even not take on it. Its 取らぬ狸の皮算用.don't count your chickens before they're hatched I imagined myself who passed eiken 1kkyuu and toeic 990. Guide exam could be easily passed.So only and the lass cliff would be toku A.
I have not taken any tests for a long time. just starting to consider taking exams related to English. If I could, I don't want to study for test. It is ideal to study without considering it.
>>147 I think that only using BBC would be insufficient to pass 国連英検特A級 since BBC is rather easy like I don't encounter difficult expressions on BBC. ( I have BBC app on my iPhone and when I have some time, I try to read them) So I'd say you should using many materials but if you just want to pass 英検1級 or get TOEIC 990, BBC is enough I guess.
As far as I'm concerned just studying for exams is the fastest and easiest way to pass them. But not fun at all. So I watch American TV series, watching YouTube video etc etc for a change!
>>146 I think you should ignore person without toeic score. If you choose people with toeic score, percentage will be 3/10. I think it's pretty high. At least we can see they challenged toeic.
You can see commments from the past results on other pages.
You agree toku A is harder than Toeic 990 anyway? Translator Yamagata Hiroo achieved 990 by his first try without pre-study. He must be God too.
Pat Buchanan may not be fit for expressing fox news.
Cos he was against Iraq war...He is radical right or super conservative. Bill O'Reilly? (i don't know him) seems to be better choice. anyway, I'm interested in conservative right opinion in 国連特A.
This kind of thing is difficult for English learners. This is an example of learning English is not only about learning grammar and increasing vocabulary.
I suffer from schizophrenia for about ten years. I used to be bothered terrible hallucination and delusion, but I have now nearly normal mental state. I have never been workinng for companies for five consecutive years, so I will not get appropriate job for me. I am 40 years old.
Eg haav schizophrenia til runter zein jaren. Eg has ben budurt ovoll hallucination o delusion, ab eg haav jost almost normal mental status. Eg haav arbiten in kompanie fer fif jaren nogt, So eg vill gettan nogt goede jobbe fer mig. Eg ben 40 jares ald.
>>149 i havent saw these comments meticulously but i cant say toeic990 is easier than it. i also have toeic 900s(R470), why can you conclued like that? you also have 900s and 1st grade of Eiken? while i have been trying TOEIC, i heard many legends of TOEIC 990 such as ヒロ田中, 森田鉄矢, TEX加藤, 加藤優 and all (they adhere not to take full marks but to continuoulsy take pure 100 percent correc answers because TOEIC L can become 495 by incorrect answer around 5 whereas TOEIC R needs all correct answers). its so weird i have not heard the man could get full score without pre-study thinking that i have been toeic related blogs and threads for 2 years. anytime they debate can educated native speakers get full marks without pre-study, but the result is NO because occationally at TOEIC R part, a few difficult questions which being debated even among these legends are set. throughout a year, 500,000 people toeic tests and thousands can full marks full marks. but that is total number of 10 times tests per year. thinking that TOEIC990er (such as toeic school teachers) are taking the test continuoulsy, i presume pure number is around hundreds..
and the availability should be considered. i think 国連特A is a relatively minor test compared to TOEIC, TOEFL and need UN related knowledge as >>129 says. it is so natural to think that before take 特A test, we should take high score of TOEIC, and 1st grade of 英検.
One of my grand-daughters is visiting us(my wife and me) since yesterday. She slept with my wife last night.
As she asked me yesterday to take her for cycling, I'm planning to make a long ride. She mastered how to ride a bike without training wheels recently so I'm sure we will have fun despite under this cold weather.
She would say as usual, "The cold never bothers me"(in Japanese) . It always reminds me of an old phrase Kodomowa kazenoko... .
Hi, I'm going to start a blog in English for my studying English. I would like to ask something if here are some foreigners, Do you want to see a blog filled with pictures of street scenes of Japan ? In the case, what kind of picture of Japan do you want to see? scenes of ordinary people and daily Japaneses life? or of special place like a Ghibli museum or enything else?
How can I delete ID? it's annoying. Someone succeeded in hiding ID. I don't do 自演 sockpuppet. It's not cozy that when we changed the subject, still you have the ex-ID.
Police say stimulant drug trafficking by underground syndicates grew sharply in recent years. Traffickers said that most of the narcotics smuggling to Japan from Southeast Asia have passed through the United States.
>>163 I think a mix would be good; in particular, there's a lot of daily life things that foreigners don't often know about. When I showed my sister around Japan, one of our favorite things was just to walk around in the residential streets to see what we'd find. But mostly, focus on things that interest you. You may find this guy's blog interesting: wordpress.tokyotimes.org
There are a lot of japanese traditional things or customs that even many japanese people don't know... for instance, i didn't know until recently that at shrines, you should make a bow to the shrine gate before entering, going under the gate...
smart phones, smart watches, smart glasses... "smart" has been used very often for various things and i think that "smart" or "smart-" will be listed as a prefix in dictionaries in the near future.
>its so weird i have not heard the man could get full score without pre-study thinking that i have been toeic related blogs and threads for 2 years. I'm talking about Hiroo Yamagata , who is a famous translator of books of such as Paul Grugman and Thomas Piketi. He was a graduate of Tokyo UNi, proceed to get a bachelor degree at M.I.T. He is not a usual man. I don't mean to go as far as saying that native speakers or native speaker-like can get 990 easily without prestudy.I called him GOD thinking he was just special and great. http://cruel.org/other/rumors2006_2.html#item2006081702 http://cruel.org/other/rumors2010_1.html#item2010050101 As links above show, he take the test, presuming 1000 was the highest score. He presumed he dropped one question and got 990.He was purplexed by the fact he was top scorer in Japan with no body achieving 1000. I admit there is no information that he never studied for toeic.Judging from his little knowledage about toeic, I guessed he never studied seriously and took the test almost at his first try. I can't imagine he studying idioms and words in toeic exercise book. http://wikiwiki.jp/iamcna/?%B1%D1%B8%EC%A4%CE%A4%AA%CA%D9%B6%AF%2F%C2%E8%A3%B2%A5%B9%A5%C6%A1%BC%A5%B8 事前勉強をすれば小学生でも合格する3級アマチュア無線技士試験すら、彼は事前勉強をせずに受験するくらいだから(そして落ちているのだが)、TOEIC用に事前に何か準備したとはとうてい思えない。 I got interested by your story and I want to know fact for sure too. We could ask him on his blog...
>>156 >i also have toeic 900s(R470), why can you conclued like that? you also have 900s and 1st grade of Eiken?
No. I am starting to think about taking tests related to English for a change. For the time being, my goal is to get toeic A level and aiken 1st grade.The former is realistic goal, considering the rusults of 模試 mock test and the latter should need a long-time study geared for eiken. I imagined myself getting toeic over 990 and aiken 1st grade. When it's achieved, Am I really content with these results, leaving one more challenge unchallenged? That is 取らぬ狸の皮算用.don't count your chickens before they're hatched >>157 You checked the word "toeic" more than twice in one person's message. And also you checked the word from A grade succesful applicant. Omitting these errors, correct ratio will be 3/10. See the bottom of the web page and you can check results before 2014 test. I think ratio won't change dramatically. >it is so natural to think that before take 特A test, we should take high score of TOEIC, and 1st grade of 英検. Above all, returnees seem not to mention toeic score, I guess. It's possible some have little interest in toeic and some don't take it seriously. I can't imagine giving up getting 990 and try 特A instead for a change.
You are right. If I got 990 and eiken 1st grade, I would know! These are just my speculation based on some information.
>>170 I went to check the blog. He seems to be a professional writer or cameraman. I think it is hard to me to find such a stimulable shot like this but I will try as you say, and find an interesting story.for my blog. Thanks a lot.
>>175 Tokyo University, and M.I.T is so trivial things to take full marks. do you know average scores of students in tokyo university ? still i am so skeptical taking full marks without pre-study thinking that あーるsan said so. also a english translator andy-san http://andymina.blog136.fc2.com/ is around 950 when he took the test first (you know the average score is around 930 who has 1st grade of eiken). if the man could get full scores without pre-study, it shoud be natural at least some major toeic bloggers or toeic-related medias have mentioned it once. >>176 toeic A revel is achievable within 2 months.even me.. anyway, i dont know why you mentioned "returnees" (are 特A test fullfilled with returnees?) but if the returnees dont mention toeic score, as you say, they may just dont have interst in it, but you cant say it is easier to take 990 than to pass 特A?
The world shook with anger at the sight of the indiscriminate terrorism against innocent people. France decided to make an air raid in IS by dispatching the aircraft carrier to the Middle East.
About three decades ago, female workers complained that they were forced to retire at an earlier age than male colleagues. Now, female employees are catching up with male workers with regard to monthly salaries. But, in the field of social welfare, Japan still lags behind Sweden where parents are legally entitled to 12 months of paid leave after the birth of a child.
by the way wheI looked up ”ズバズバ言って”(means nearly"say bluntly")"in the Japanese-English dictionary, it said it means "talk like a Dutch uncle" Can this phrase use when I talk with real Dutchman? Won't he feel bad about it?
when I looked up ”ズバズバ言って”(means nearly"say bluntly")"in the Japanese-English dictionary, it said it means "talk like a Dutch uncle" Can I use this phrase when I talk with real Dutchman? Won't he feel bad about it?
>>191 The Dutch can be very direct (or blunt) when talking sometimes. It's probably a cultural thing, and foreigners might not be used to it. Generally we are less afraid to state our opinions, like talking about politics or taboo's. When answering a question, Dutch can also be very direct by saying just "No." instead of something (more polite) like "I am not sure about that, have you tried looking at..." Of course this all is only generally speaking. We can be polite as well. I think these kind of phrases/expressions come from a long time ago.
I myself won't feel bad about it if you say something like that. I think it's rather funny. The British had more of those "Dutchman name calls" for us (probably coming from the wars in the 17th century). For example, "Dutch" is also used for someone being greedy (as far as I know). But I think we all have those name calls for each other, especially for neighbouring countries. As long as they stay jokes, there's is nothing wrong with it in my opinion.
Unfortunate and poor children in the Middle East reminded the Japanese elderly people of the war-orphans in the late 1940s. The so-called war orphans were separated from their families in China during the confusion of at the end of the Second World War. Later, the cabinet minister promised the Chinese nationals of the Japanese parentage to find their relatives during their brief stay in Japan.
As I recall, when I was a junior high student, I have had a chance to correspond with a Dutch girl. I don't remember too much about it, but we did it through the body named UNESCO correspondence.. or something, which served as a translator between two young correspondents. The reason I chose the Dutch was because I learnd a story about a Dutch boy in my school class, who saved his country by preventing bank collapsing at the risk of his life. you know the story?
>>194 Do you support Flemish secessesion from southern Belgium? Since Flemish people's ethnicity is identical to Dutch, Would it be nice to unite with Flemish northern Belgium? You have no problem?
What is the purpose to live? I thought it was to have my own family, have children, and raise them happily. But I realized I can't. I've lost my way to live. I don't think I can live for only myself.
If Radiohead's song became a national anthem, would all british people die with despair? Don't Radiohead's vocalist commit suicide before the audience? Then he would became legend beyond Jjm Morrison, Jimmy? Hendrix, Manabu Oshio, etc etc. Jesus Christ of today emerges.
>>197 Unfortunately I do not know that story. Do you have a link to the story perhaps?
>>200 They are also known as Dutch wives in other countries. "The origin of the term is thought to be from the Dutch colony of Indonesia where Dutch traders would spend long periods away from their wives." (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Dutch_wife)
>>203 I am not so sure about if I support it or not. Things are good the way they are now, I think. The Belgium culture is a bit different than the Dutch too. They also speak French and Flemish (Flemish sounds a lot different than Dutch, but it is still understandable for us) Maybe I find it a bit sad that The Netherlands isn't such a "great country" anymore. It has a really interesting history, but it seems like a lot is forgotten. Of course The Kingdom of The Netherlands did awful things in the past too (African slaves, and maybe Dutch East Indies etc.) But almost every country did some kind of bad things in the past. It's nice to see the world change to a more peaceful world, although there's still too much war.
I'm not saying I don't like The Netherlands as it is now though. It's a nice (small) country in my opinion.
>>207 I think martialartists are the most famous dutch other than soccer players. Do you Know Badr Hari? Do you dislike Badr Hari, moroccan kickboxer? I know you have to he careful about publicaly speaking such a thing.
He lose his temper easily and injure others. Muscular guy of 2m long, lots of criminal records, once a suspect for a mudercase.. Scary...
To be fair, I want to tell nagative side of native dutch people. Two martial arts figthers Peter Schmidt and Hans Nijman were shot to death. Strange coincidence.. They must have had relatinshiop to criminal ring. They might have had got involved in concession dispute including drugs.
I guess most Japanese still have good image of the Netherland like the land of windmill and tulip. but sorry, I have double images. One is a land of excessive freedom, desperate people with drug addiction, immigrants who stick together and make slum, window? prositution.
>>209 How so? Why do you think Dutch people hate Asians? I don't think I can agree with you with that. They are naive about most Asian countries; they don't really know or care about them. But they don't hate them I think. The comments in the article of >>27 confirm that...
>>210 I guess it's half true.I don't think he commited suicide cleverly to become legend.He appeared to be really pathetic and negative. It's just my impression. I'm not interested in their music and don't know in detail. >>211 Rather temptaton of ISIS which you created in your brain whispers in your ear. It's said that despair is the core reason of many people rushing to ISIS. Don't be mistaken.Remember I don't want you to be case.lol
>>208 I don't know these guys. I don't know much about martial arts, sorry. And yeah, I don't deny that there are bad things in this country. To be honest, Japan is probably unique when it comes to overall safety. But I am sure something like in your story happened in Japan too. They happen everywhere, in some countries more than others (and in Japan probably the least).
I mean, even after you've said those things, The Netherlands is still a really safe country. There are just some things that you should watch out for. For example people who might steal stuff (like bicycles) in the cities.
About drugs; Yes, there are plenty of people using drugs sometimes here. Weed basically isn't illegal, and there are no hard punishments for stuff like XTC or coke. I even know a few people that do XTC sometimes. But this might sound stupid; but XTC isn't really dangerous when it's done safe. Smoking or alcohol are more dangerous for example. The whole "drugs is bad" thing probably came from some religous law after all. Don't get me wrong, a lot of drugs are bad. But many drugs are harmless and still get the death sentence in certain countries. Alcohol, tabaco, caffeine... those are somehow legal while other things are not.
The government here didn't put high punishments on certain drugs because they want to have control over them, instead of letting them happen anyway (with criminal activities). They let you test certain drugs for free to make sure that it's not bad drugs that might kill you. That's probably the most dangerous of drugs; that people don't know if it's "good" quality.
>>208>>214 Prostitution is the same; the government doesn't want prostitution to happen illegaly. So now you have the (famous) windows in Amsterdam. There are a lot of laws there, someone can only become a prostitute if they want to become one from themselves and not only because they really need the money or something like that. And this way there are also a lot of regulations for it to keep that business clean from STD's and such. Prostitutes are protected in this country, while they aren't protected at all in certain other countries (where they might get beaten up etc. too).
I am sorry if my explanation isn't really clear about this subject. I also understand that it's a weird subject to talk about. I only know that the laws here are made for logical reasons. Allowing soft-drugs and controlled prostitution for example made the crime-rates (violence) go down in this country by a lot. And it's not completely legal, it's just made so that the government can "keep an eye on it".
Maybe I am also naive, because I happen to live in a good neighbourhood. You are still right that bad things happen of course.
Let me correct what I said earlier; I love the history of this country, and I am happy that I was born here (it still is one of the best/safest countries to live, with good overall prosperity). But the country as it is today has its problems. There might be better places to be born, but I am still lucky to be born here (instead of some poverty country for example).
An increasing number of Japanese women undergo cosmetic surgery because the surgeons' expertise is reported to have been much improved recently. After the operations, most of them looks young for her age.
>>223 You are lacking in the ability to read and understand English. I said that that situation reminded the elderly people ================= of war-orphans in the late 1940s. In the 1980s, starving African children reminded them of war-orphans.
>>224 Sorry, "the Japanese elderly people" didn't mean you, don't you? but all the war-orphans after WW2 were not the left-behind Japanese orphans in China. just after the war, there were many children who lost their parents in American air raids in Japan.
Anti-Islamism is apparently prevailing in Europe following the attack of the newspaper company by Islamic radicals. Racism is also mounting among those against Islamism in the region.
Once you get piericings on some erogenous zones (性感帯) such as nipples or a cock, you cannot have sex at least for 3 weeks. That's the biggest problem!!!
”w” used in 2 ch means "have a smile", I think. what should we use in an English sentence when we want to express the same feeling. "lol" or (laugh) seems to be exaggerated.
>>229 I don't think "lol" is exaggerated. It's overused and lost the real meaning. It means more like "have a smile" now too. "LOL" in capital letters is exaggerated and probably really means "laughing out loud". There's also rofl (rolling over floor laughing) and lmao (laughing my ass off).
>>213 Yeah, i agree. I love nirvana especially the album called "In Utero" though. It describes Kurt's blind side very well. I've never thought about meaning of lyrics though. Lol
>>230 Why would we have to hate all Muslims? It's like hate all Christians because of the stupid Evangelists. The world is not as simple as you might assume.
>>238 He is making mistake. Koreans were not drafted. Japanese government admitted volunteer soldiers and tens of thousads koreans volunterred and fought in the end. It's an inconviniet fact that tens of thousands koreans voluntarily join the imperial military and fought for Japan. Then they starts to change or twist the story.
Some were drafted at the end of the ww2. The ww2 ended while they were training. They never went to war.
Business circles said that the wage increase should be tied to gains in productivity. And they claimed the enterprises that earned windfall benefits should accept the wage increase offer from labor unions.
Terrorists have taken a footage about japanese hostage, and in that video they said to japanese officials that if they don't give the 200m$ to terrorists, they will exucute these victims. what sould japanese officials take a measure towards them? If they give their money, terrorists will use it to kill innocent people or buy strong weapons. It diffinitely make much more people to death. but if they don't give their money, two japanese victims will be beheaded. It is so crued. Neverthless, I hope officials don't give in these threats and give them some money.
Giving in this threats and paying ramsom will give terrorists more incentives to kidnap japanese people. I think it is more awful than risking two people's life. This is my opinion about this controversial and international problem.
200m$ is way high to save two reckless people. It's no way that two is worth the grants to help people in the lands devastated by ISIS. I guess ISIS is biding time to demand ransom, jumping on abe's words. They demand ransom sooner or later A result might be horrific and tragic one. But government can't do everything and has limits. It's not that government can't help but goverment help within its capacity. We should consider seriously about what it is to stay abroads, learning from this lesson. If they are prepared for being killed, they will accept the destiny.
Yesterday I just have heard the news that two australians are facing gun death penality for their drug trafficking. I know we shouldnot mix Indonesia and ISIS. Something unexpectable and awful could happen in other contries. In that sense, the same.
What is the best way or tools to communicate with English speakers? I know 4chan, omegle, rarejob. Does anyone know a useful website equivalent to these sites?
>>245 That's right! And Korea wasn't bombed by America. Japan protected Korea as a result. Taiwan was bombed by America. But Taiwan is more logical than Korea. Japan wasn't responsible for the Korean War. America beat Japan, so America was responsible for the war. America didn't have any justice in WW2.
President Obama announced that the United States will play a leading role in the international community to meet the expectations of the other countries for peace and prosperity in the world. After the end of the Cold War era, ethnic conflicts have been spreading over the world, especially in the Middle East. The United States has been making a strenuous effort as a troubleshooter in the Middle East, but failed in mediating the dispute.
If the world continued to think "History is made by the victor" justuice, the WW3 would occure. Because the next war victors could make new history! If Americans want to realize world peace, Americans have to think seriously about the meaning. If Americans admitted the WW2 was not justice, the China, and so son, would lose their justice completely.
>>202 I'd totally forgotten about Oasis, until seeing 'Wonderwall' on TV the other day. Perhaps 'Don't Look Back In Anger' was seen as an anthem of that generation. I was eleven when it was released, so didn't really relate to it.
Many people who don't support the monarchy think of this song as a kind of second national anthem. You probably already know the melody. http://youtu.be/KHh8isGtB6w
The name of son of Oshio Manabu, japanese rock legend, is Riam. Her ex-wife now plays a protagonist in a noon soap opera. It's a pretty falldown for her career eventhough she is one of the protagonists. She never played in a drama at that time.
http://p.news.nimg.jp/photo/651/584651l.jpg Oshio Chosen woman. I can hardly find faults in her face and body. Not amusing and stimulating for me though. She must be one of イギリス人さん’s favorites.
google akiko yada rather than in japanese if you want to see more sexy shots. I think girls are just dolls which decorates Oshio. I guess Oshio never falls in love with a girl from the bottom of his heart. New fiancee is now wating for Oshio to get out of prison.. モテモテ男
>>278 He's not a comedian, but he has been in quite a few comedy movies. It's a big mixture though. Right now, he's filming a drama about some famous authors from the early 20th century. There was also 'King's Speech', 'Before I Go To Sleep', and 'Devil's Knot'. But he's also known for lighter movies such as the 'Bridget Jones' series, as well as 'Love Actually', and now the upcoming 'Kingsman'.
I hadn't heard of 'Another Country', but just watched a clip and he was nearly unrecognisable...
The worst news ever in 2015 for Igirisu-jin. The Sun announced they had stopped putting on nude photos on the 3rd pages of the daily. It's said more than 200 thousands people petitioned, calling for discontinuing the page.
As a person who has pulled out a sheet that inclueds 3rd page from the paper again and again at Kiosk, Igirisu-jin must be in shock now to hear the news. :p
http://www.afpbb.com/articles/-/3037055 You can clicked on the photo at the top. There're three photos. You need to click on この画像を見る>> or somewhere in the rectangle to see the second and third sexually explicit images.
There seems to be a phone number under each of the nude photos. Is the 3rd page for adverts of prostitutes?
>>280 Actual figures were debated. But it 's approved from various camps that high ratio of the "comfort women" were actually Japanese.. Many data show quite a few japanese were in that place. Why does dailymail hide japanese comfort women? weird.
Coming out does not benefit japanese women.They can't make money for it and they don't have motivation to bash Japan by distorting the facts. koreans have both motivations. After all, the korean comfort women were focused and make us believe they were like that statistically and everything.(you know the woman in youtube once said that she worked at a brothel under korean operation before entering comfort women. Her firt aim was to get back money which became unuseable after ww2) I hope Japanese comfortwomen come out and bring information which contradicts what koreans has been saying. But I know it's difficult thing.I admit it is not a thing to honour even if sex slave etc was false. After all it's a shameful and trumatic thing both for men and women and thing they want untouched. Only "victims" can appear and speak out before the press.
The abnormal incidents involving religious fanatics came as a shock to ordinary citizens as was shown in such cases the Japanese hostage crisis in Iraq in 2004 and the mass suicides by cult members in Uganda in 2000.
>>284 Yeah. I want to believe Japanese comfort women who could return safely to Japan got married and had children and that they need not do coming out in order not to bother their families.
>>282 The biggest shock is some people calling The Sun a "newspaper". Saying that, they continued the usual Page 3 photos today, apparently, and denied reports that they were stopping.
イギリス人 fell in live with Jordan, Katie Price. He somehow found purness,innocence, virginity and Mother Mary in her. Her breast augmentation was starting to disillusion him and outed sex video tape was the last straw. He bursted into tears!It crashed him completely. Then he turned his interest to Keeley Hazelle, English divine. Then again video tape came out! In the video she is having an affair with a brown guy, unknown footballer! He got mad! English divine is defiled! He bursted into tears again! English girs are all filthy and unjust! World is full of lies.
He rushed to Japgirl to find something pure and innocent.
when i went to school (in 80's and 90's) , teachers were respectable people. it is just because they knew a lot about life or japan or the world and they used to kindly answer to my questions. i didn't think about whether they're correct or wrong. today, pupils / students can just google things and i heard that some students maliciously point out where teachers are wrong and make fun of them... i don't think it's a nice thing.
Because teachers in Japan are relatively not so smart like in my case my "English teacher" only had 英検準2級 and she couldn't communicate with ALT teachers at all
Also I still remember I got some deduction on my English sentence because she didn't understand the difference between some and any wtf...
The executives of Microsoft Corp. fear that they may fall behind the other countries' rivals even in the field of software applications for personal computers. So, the planned sales of the new operating system, Windows 10, will be much publicized worldwide.
On the background, Microsoft Corp is lagging behind the other makers in the development of software applications for smartphones, portable telephones and portable terminals.
It will also be free to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10 in the first year of release (the upgrade is of course permanent). Probably the reason why it will be free is because Windows 10 has the Windows Store in it, and Windows 7 doesn't. Upgrading from Windows 8 (or 8.1) to Windows 10 will always be free. http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/01/21/the-next-generation-of-windows-windows-10/
>>290 The video looks very typical of a 1980s pop song. That song reached number 3 in the UK music charts that year, so it's for real.
As for the fans, they also seem like typical music fans. Other than the crazy looking guy who goes on stage. But that was for the music video and wasn't real.
>>288 Wow. You're right. They seem to have decided to continue the tradition.
The Times and The Sun are under Rupard Murdock's media network, and the former reported the news of the latter stopping the tradition. Maybe The Sun insisted on an indipendence of editorial policy or something.
The Social Democrats believed that Japan could do without armaments as stipulated in the Constitution. But later, the Social Democratic Prime Minister Murayama admitted the Self Defense Forces are constitutional. On the other hand, the Communists emphasized the Nonaligned Movement was necessary for Japan's security.
It's about 10 hours to go until the deadline ISIS set for Japan to pay for 200 million dollars to save the lives of the two Japanese hostages.
If I'm not mistaken, no hostages so far who were filmed in the format wearing orange clothes have been saved because no countries so far said to have paid ransom. to the terroist organization. I read the news that Japanese government has asked UK for help, but that's rediculous. When UK itself couldn't rescue their own hostage filmed that way, what on earth can they do to save the lives of hostages of Japan?
There's nothing we can do about it. The chance are as good as nil that the two will survive. ISIS would never break a promise when they predict they will kill hostages. I've never seen brutal videos where beheadings by the man in black are in action and I won't this time, too.
Islum extremists seem to be spawning around the world and no one can stop that. Paris, Belgium, US, the list will get longer this year and it's just the beggining of 2015. I predict there'll be a big terror this year somewhere in the world , like highjacking and more shocking ones.
I'm against offering ransom worth 2 million dollars. But I don't oppose everycase of ransom. I think ransom, for example, 2 million "yen" is forgiven to save life. This time case is different from Yodogo group hijack incident that an terrorist group demanded fellow terrorists be freed.This time it's not terrorists but captives that are freed. People who say "Never bow to terrorism" often cite incidents aboroads like hijack incident in Germany. But even Germany including France and Spain are said to offer ransom this time. They must consider the cases separately. I hope Abe never stick to "succum to terrorism too much and think calmly
If windows 10 is going to be free it's definitely going to be shit. Probably packed with another useless metro screen like windows 8/8.1 and spyware to mine all your personal information. Not to mention that it would probably be bigger in size from all the other useless apps they bundled with it making installing it on a SSD a problem.
I forgot. Yes,the.U.K and USA share the same stance, never to succum to terrorsim in anycase. But they use military(wage war) to fight against terrorism insted of ransom. Japan don't have that ability and should not do such a thing. Abe should be careful of wording too not to be regarded as among the same camp of USA and the U.K. I'm not a typical pacifist or leftwing. Keep distance from monothism conflict. After all westerner started confusion in the middleeast. Japan should not be regarded as one of them.
About three decades ago, an increasing number of the Chinese people living in frontier districts were on the verge of starvation. The Japanese researchers introduced to China the know-how of cultivating rice in cold climates.
North Korea demanded the phased withdrawal of the US forces from South Korea and charged that the United States interfered the unification of the Korean Peninsula. Experts said the withdrawal of the US troops from South Korea would tip the military balance in Asia substantially.
I bought M size undies on ebay. Since the seller and product was chinese, I thought it should be in chinese (asian) standard size as a matter of course.
but what I got today was with a tag L!
yeah .... I know asian L is equal to european/american M .... But the tag says M! The letter M is M!!! Not L!!!!
it's been more than ten years since i started to think i need to learn 合気道 skills. i don't want to attack anybody but i want to protect myself when i am attacked by some bad guys. many women aged 18-24 in the usa seem to learn defense skills by themselves as they usually risk being raped in their lives...horrible.
i like to check and see japanese b-grade spots (B級スポット) on internet websites. if possible, i want to actually visit as many spots as i can. the other day, one of my acquaintances went to such a place and advised me about that. the place is a building, which imitates 九龍城 in hongkong.
>>317 You had better know; for women to learn martial arts for self-defence is not so efficient. even if you got kuro-obi or whatever, you can't defeat fucking huge blacks with muscles. To buy a pepper spray (催涙スプレー) is the best solution.
>>264 Thanks for replying. I've heard the song you saying before. This is being used many places and many situations. But too many people are singing it varied situations. Because of it, I can't recognize whose the song is.
Do you know the program called "Later with Jools Holland"? I love it since so many artists as good as Oasis appear on it.
Songs of 007soundsystem are called youtube national anthem. He is one of my favorites.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHh8isGtB6w&feature=youtu.be She is beautiful as well as her voice. I guess looks come before everything after all. Is it jupitar? I remember Hirahara somone made a big hit in Japan about a decade ago. We know Sarah Brightman. She is beautiful too. In japan Pomp and Circumstance by Elgar is the most acknowledged second national anthem of u.k. It is very typical image of the u.k for many Japanese.British farmaceutical company glaxo used this tune in its cm.
I've read somewhre that a Queen's song got the majoriy by poll. Bohemian Rapsody or we are the champion was elected as the second national anthem.
Coldness and darkness in winter make me feel blue. I'm in depression. I wanna die. Its an exaggeration. but i feel blue. Mental scars in the past haunt me and make me wanna weep in the bed. There must be many with mental health problem in the u.k. It should be more cold and dark throught a year.
Yours is kind of like a poem. I liked it. It's telling me your sadness, loneliness, and even fear for winter. But on top of that, I feel your desire for death. Such an interesting poem.
Islamic State is still increasing its military strength in the Middle East, taking some journalists and others in the industrialized nations as hostages.
>>330 The banner in the stormfront ドン引きする turns me off. every day white people's day! Silly. I think their tactics is failing to get more understainding from wilder average white people base. Are you one of stormfronter?
The banner seems to commemorate individual who was born today. You can see another great individual everytime you click. What I see now is Ernst Heinkel. The letters of "every day white people's day" has disappeared though.
>>332 I feel exactly same as you! Though I can make out some English lesson's videos, but some interviews or somethings are really hard to comprehend. I want to become to be able to watch sports games with English sub channel.
The broadcast said that Mr. Kenji Goto claimed his comrade, Mr. Haruna Yukawa, was killed by the Islamic radicals and they demanded the release of a female terrorist arrested by the Jordan troops in exchange for him.
There are still profound differences between Israel and the Palestinians. About three decades ago, the Israeli forces have launched a large-scale counterattack spearheaded by a naval bombardment. At that time, the PLO leader appealed his comrades to fight against Israel till the end.
No. But naturally I have to think about other options like "oh he is a vegetarian so we can't go to McDonald" " we can't go to a steak house" or whatever
>>343 I don't even care whether you're gay or female though, I know how you feel. However if he doesn't force it against you, it doesn't seem to big deal unless you wanna go with him to McDonald's or something like that essentially. But when I had a GF, I used to often go to fast food shops because it's cheap. If you have some reason to go there, you should better find another way, I think. It's just my opinion. I've once tried to become a vegetarian though, it was so hard since it has cost too much.
Native speaker here. It's mostly rambling pseudo-mystic garbage in semi-comprehensible English, only slightly above broken English. This guy obviously thinks he's some kind of intellectual, using big words before understanding the fundamentals of the English language. In short, don't bother reading it, it's shit.
Japan and the United States fear that IS may increase its influence cashing in on the unstable situation in the Middle East. But IS is suffering from the destruction of oil equipment by the bombardment of the United States and other nations.
Talking of the Middle East, the impact of oil crisis in 1973 was absorbed successfully in Japan although housewives devoted themselves to impulse buying daily necessities such as toilet paper and detergents during the crisis. Japan was the first among the industrialized nations after overcoming the ill-effects of the oil crisis. After the crisis, Japan sustained stable economic growth, not to say high economic growth in the late 1970s.
>>332>>337 The only way to improve is to just listen. But you have to listen to material you already understand. So one thing I'd recommend is to find English videos and watch them with English subtitles. Don't try to think of the meaning in Japanese, just try to match your reading with what the actor is saying.
It also helps to find material that you find interesting. Very few people enjoy listening to stilted speech like learning English videos.
When I saw anguish in his face, I did feel great sympathy to him eventhough I knew he is responsible for what they did.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETe6cnv-a50 Westerners can deal with serious matters including war with upbeat sound. That is what japanese can't do, in my opinion. It's a contradictory thing for japanese in addition to our lack of creativity.
An earthquake jolted the metropolitan area this morning. It is said that even seismologists suspect unusual movements of a catfish could be an omen of a great tremor.
>>381 I'm going out with David today/tomm. so I cannot do that now. it will be the 9th piercing on my body. piercing/tattoo are kinda drugs. once you got one, you want more...
I love ”the gaijin” ← bashing whale eating ultra right wing tough men with attitude. I love ”the gaijin bashing whale eating ultra right wing tough men” with attitude.
The management bow to the labor federation for a wage increasing offer despite the stagnant individual spending caused by the prolonged business recession.
How can I stay out of other people's drama? I'm caught between two sides of my friends and everything sort of depends on me. I hate being in the middle.
Wear protection and you're fine. I used to fuck without condom before but I stopped doing it. You need to have good control over your temptations and drives.
Ugh there are so many things to worry about. Not only about my own relationship but I also have to deal with others'. It's such a pain in the ass. The last thing you want to do is to get involved in someone else's romance-related trouble!
I believe Jesus is Judeo Aryan. That's why he is popular in western world. So to speak, the area of Syria and Iraq was originally Arier's as well as above of India.
>>406 Are you person of christian identity? I understand it's an unacceptbale fact for people who hate jews as well as love christianity that Jesus Christ was a jew. You should go back to paganism then your contradiction would disapper.
Chrsitianity had been well ingrained in european culture. That's why even nazi germany could not eradicate Christianity on the spot.
>>405 I think those people mean subtitles in your native language. Like I wouldn't watch a Japanese show with English subtitles. However if the Japanese show has Japanese subtitles I see no harm in watching it.
>>393 Whale eating or the right to hunt whales is defended by right wing friends here in 2ch. I don't see why it should be any different to say the right to bear arms and to right to hunt in the USA.
I just saw the American Sniper. It was intense and emotional, and I was surprised by how balanced it was. The tough choices one has to make as a soldier is terrifying. Incredibly sad film, especially how families have to deal with the consequences of war.
The end of the Cold War has given rise to regional conflicts in various parts of the world that are providing a lucrative job for arms dealers the world over.
The representative of the Democratic Party pointed out that the Governor of the Bank of Japan says that he thinks it is necessary to loosen monetary control for the time being to avoid rising prices of commodities.
>>418 Do you know the rumor (established fact) that one of TV tokyo anchormen is a faggot? He sometimes acts like a faggot, like screaming and talking like a girl (like うわきゃーやめて〜〜〜). It is 池谷亨ikegaya toru who I'm talking about. He is now enjoying NEW YORK city life.
>>420 Really.In my opinion Christiano Ronaldo is a typical image of good looking gay boys from gay magazine or gay strip theater in southeastern asia. By the way, Are you not Japanese? You speak like a gaijin.
>>413 If you seriously believe all the people who defend whaling are right wing and who bash Japan are conscientious westerners, you may want to study the history of whaling. It should be a good chance to expand your narrow perspective.
Anti-whaling people are illogical people. It is ok that they don't like whaling and don't want to eat whale meat. However, from the moment they think Japan should stop whaling, they become illogical people.
424>>"If you seriously believe all the people who defend whaling are right wing " I never said that, I said: "Whale eating or the right to hunt whales is defended by right wing friends here in 2ch" You generalised and completely changed the meaning of what I said.
"and who bash Japan are conscientious westerners" never said anything about westerners's view. I am treating whaling as a country's (Japan's) sovereign decision. It is like telling Americans not to hunt deer.
6:30 a.m. -i woke up and noticed it had been still raining. 7:00 a.m. -i sneaked down to the first floor and threw away flammable garbage. 7:30 a.m. -i checked emails over a cup of coffee and found no good news. 11:00 a.m. -i felt i was about to scream furiously. 1:30 p.m. -i decided to go out and exercise to get myself back together. 2:30 p.m. -tender winter sunlight cheered me up. 5:30 p.m. -i devoured ねばねば丼 and its taste made me smile. 10:00 p.m. -i will go to bed hoping i can burst out laughing tomorrow.
>>427 I wrote "if" so you don't need to deny so desperately. Anyway, I'm glad that you are not one of those stupid gaijins who interfere with other country's sovereign decision.
>>428 I don't get why you thought "I hate west so bad". There are always some weirdos who invent a pretext for a quarrel in 2ch...
>>444 Do you know unagi is a endangered species? Unless we start reducing our unagi consumption, we will be unable to eat unagi in the future. And more efficient perfect farming tecunique(circle of egg and grown-up eel) is needed for sustainable unagi consumption.
>>434 yes, i am. but now i strongly feel that it is challenging to continue to live an ordinary life in this country. i am not unhappy with the 凡人丸出し life.
>>447 Dojou(loach) is often cited as a substitute. It lives in inner waters. Dojou has downsides too. It has strong ordor to remove and has sand to extract.
Ordinary citizens seem to be fed up with the TV reports about the divorce of TV talents. They also said the hostages captured by Islamic radicals were partly responsible for their visit to the worn-torn district in the Mideast.
I think some people don't like ぬるぬる the slimy texutre of the back side. I don't care if it's well grilled. I guess Unagi's most attraction is the smell.
The smell of Unagi restaurants always brings home to me how poor I am. I have never eaten Unagis at Unagi resturants. One of my dream is to eat Unagis there.
Choose such friends as will benefit you. Though I have neither money nor friends, I am not so unhappy as you think. (Refer to the crambook for entrance examinations published by Sundaibunko Corp.)
The Prime Minister emphasized his economic policies to get rid of the prolonged deflation which lasted for 15 years at an ordinary session of the Diet.
>>455 I don't know Matsuko said that. But if she/he? said something along the line, I totally agree with her/him. Opening ceremony has to be artistic and will draw attentions from around the world. AKB48's performance is far below the level of art. Their performance is as good as that of a drama club in an elementary school. AKB fans including Otaku must have a different opinion and those are the people who are angry with Matsuko's reference to AKB, I believe.
>>469 http://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/9717488/ is where I saw it. I'd much rather see Matsuko in the opening ceremonies than AKB48. Or get Yasutaka Nakata to do something with one of the bands he works with. (I could easily imagine きゃりーぱみゅぱみゅ on stage for the ceremonies.)
every olympics opening ceremony i have seen was so lengthy that i remember i got bored 20 or 30 minutes after it had started. the marching of athletes from all over the world seemed to continue endlessly. don't you think so?
>>449 does dojou or conger have bones? when i was a kid, some small bones of unagi scratched and stopped at my throat and i had great difficulty getting rid of them....afraid to eat unagi after that. if dojou or conger have bones, i am unwilling to try it.
>>474 I agree with your opinion. hmm... What Japan has appropriate for ceremony? Are they traditional Japanese events, technologies, or famous artists?
On top of akb, Exile is not a thing I don't wannna see. They are like ヤンキー in next generation. I was for the Olympic games in the stage of promotion campaign , But I feel turned off, rather against it, hearing about new governer and opening ceremony and whatnot..
Originally Unagi was not a thing for common people. It has been not long before it becomes more reasonable. A large-scale eel farming hear and abroad made it possible. We can eat unagi even at beel bowl restanant today. Farmer catch fry and bring it to unagi. They can't reproduce it. The more we eat, the less unagi population can be. We have to put up with catching control and quota if we want to eat unagi for the future. Advancing complete aquaculture technology is needed at the same time. >>475 They are not invertebrate. It should have.
>>421 I've just googled it and found my garday didn't work, which used to react to Anderson Cooper. prob I don't care if he's gay or not. If Tumabuki kun or Shoei were gay, I would be happy :-)
>>422 Nope, I'm japanese. When I hear some useful expressions like yippiee! woo! psst... (useful at least for me!) I write them down on my notebook :-)
>>444 The feelings of shit and beautiful comes alternately, in constant period. Sometime I can say the world fuckin' beautiful, and vice versa. I've felt shit for more than 2 years. I wonder when I can get fuckin' better.
I'm not good at English as you in this thread. But I wanna join this chat because I think nothing is more effective than practice. I really want to make progress in English. Can I poor English girl join this chat?
No other details about the Japanese hostage in Islamic State is available at present. The Jordanian government announced the release of the defendant in exchange for the captured Jordanian pilot.
>>471 I read the linked page. The title of the article or the content could be confusing for nonjapanese because Japanese is not their mother tongue, but nobody's upset or complain about what Matsuko said.
No mention about people getting angry about what Matsuko said in the article. The article is just about what Matsuko said.
The article and the title just tell that Matsuko is against AKB48's possible appearance of the opening ceremony .
The title below means, Matsuko Delux said it would be embarrassing if AKB48 make appearance in Tokyo Olympic('s opening or closing ceremony). マツコ・デラックス AKB48の東京五輪出演に「恥ずかしい」と苦言
Maybe you misunderstand 苦言 (complain). It's Matsuko's complain against possible AKB48's appearance in the opening ceremony, not people's complain against what Matsuko said.
Lots of people misunderstand. Korean is a people who want to rebuild Korai(高麗) which is basically Mongolian. Han is basically Kankoku. And there were two other countries called Kudara and Silagi in south part in history.
So, don't Korea. Korea is also related to Chosen(North Korea).
When I read JapanToday or other anti-Japanese pepople gathering sites, the feeling of shit comes to me. But enemies probably make my life simple. It is nothing to be proud of in it.
謎は全て解けた。 川栄李奈のちょい悪ニット帽の"I don't seek , I find it."の意味がようやく解った。
I don't seek , I find it.
seekの後に目的語がない。itとは何だ。 この一節だけでは、何の事か皆目見当がつかない。
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I found it. 原文が見つかった。 これはEckhart Tolle(世界で最も精神的に影響力のある人物 in 2011)の著書、 『A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose』からの引用だ。
>>498 Thanks for the correction/explanation; my Japanese really is pretty terrible. (Although now I'm confused why any of that was newsworthy; it's not like Matsuko hasn't said controversial things before.)
One time I was on a date with a guy. Everything went great until I looked his face up close and saw his huge nose hair sticking out. That ruined the whole thing ^.^
How many foreigners love AKB? It's a created boom even in Japan. I had little interest in them.I knew about none of them. I didn't know even about maeda atsuko. AKB aired repetedly on TV and appearing repetedly on every magazine, pepople got confused and brainwashed.
>>518 http://tocana.jp/2015/01/post_5652_entry.html this says IS is trying to make themselves look cool to collect soldiers and money by showing execution videos to the world. If so, the attempt to make themselves look uncool is a good idea.
Who the hell thinks such a stuff is cool? Only crazy people do. And only cool tak in his first single is cool. His second single is less amusing and the third is a total failure, disgusting, so mean and vulgar. He is now hurting japanese image only to get attentions.
Every time he sells his new single. he gets worse. I wonder why he could have made a great stuff. Only luck? I can't believe the first and third single is of the same person's production. He looks different person in each clip.
>>518 I don't know for sure but from what I've heard it was to counter terrorist propaganda by manipulating internet search engines so that that character would appear when entering keywords relating to isis.
two companies have given me a chance of taking an interview test for an opening position. some of my qualifications seemed to match what they need. i hope i will be hired by either of them.
>>506 Yeah, Matsuko might always say something controversial in a funny way all the time, as you say.
But why what she/he said was newsworthy this time is probably because everybody is interested in what the opening ceremony of2020 Tokyo Olympics will be like and who will be in it, and is concerned about the possibility of AKB48 making appearance in the opening ceremony of 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
After reading the article, I was like, "You said it, Matsuko. Totally agree."
I forgot the name of US TV show where amateur performers compete against each other and a Japanese dancer won, right? He's a good performer and I read somewhere he's interested in directing the opening ceremony of Tokyo Olympic.
I don't think he has good enough track record for directing an opeining ceremony but that's far better than see AKB48 dancing in the opening ceremony.
This week has been rough for me. I'm glad it's almost over. Hope things will settle by the start of next week...If it keeps going the same, I'd literally die from stress. Too much stress already messed my stomach. Good part is that I lost some weight because of that. But I'd rather have peace in mind.
>>543 Which Does it mean ,you live outside 23 wards or outside tokyo? We might live close each other. Tremor is not so bit that I was not sure whether it was an earthquake or shake from the chair. Here I was able to confirm there was an earthquake for sure.
Maybe I should have gotton more snow cos my area is in the highlands than bay side area is. Yesterday we had both snow and earthquake..both are not big though.
I have not had snow this year here. Snow might have fallen, but the snow has not piles up on the ground yet. You are Gunman or Saitaman, aren't you? I am a Chibaman.
>>551 I laughed a lot! Your humor makes my life! I feel like gaining a power to live through my miserable life! Thank you. See the moe side if you feel weary.
>>>555 English and Japanese are my strongest, although my Japanese is not very good imo. I also have studied German, Spanish, and Middle English. I was going to practice Danish for a while but the materials are just sitting here doing nothing.
it's imperative for you to try to memorize things by yourself. thanks to useful portable devices, we tend to fail to memorize things yourself and leave the work to the devices instead. so, it is hard to remember them if we forget to carry the devices with us. i think it is a problem to rely on them too much.
I've seen a picture of that guy's head put on his back. Strangely I was little shocked. It was a long process which is more stressfull thant the result.
On the way home from the supermarket, I suddenly felt a sign of Post-Traumatic Subarachnoid Hemorrhage and broke down on exist of the shop last Thursday. A store clerk found me and called an ambulance. At the hospital, medical doctors found me Post-Traumatic Subarachnoid Hemorrhage and a fracture of my chew and big toe. Now, I'm in hospital and wrote some sentences about my condition.
Please let me talk about Ferrari 512M In 1970, Ferrari began production of 512S, to challenge to Porsche 917. It was named after its 5 liter and V12 engine. Although 512S was much better balanced, but, Porsche 917 was much faster than 512S. 512S was built in many parts of 312P in 1969, Eventually, entire bodies of Ferrari 512S was replaced as 512M. In 1970, the whole bodies of 512S were completely revised for 512M. But the 512M was used by private teams due mainly to the new regulation in 1972. Without Ferrari's efforts, the 512M showed a poor performance in almost races in 1971,
Now I'm temporally using my old iPhone 4S because I dropped it... But I kinda like it like it feels like time is going back! Kinda easier to use I think?
>>589 Take care of yourself! >>602 I enjoyed it, but the book I was learning from had a lot of religious texts as its examples. It makes sense though, since those are the most commonly preserved from those times.
i guess that pollen (スギ花粉) already started to be scattered. i am suffering runny nose... i am sure that i will began to sneeze shortly...allergic to the pollen.
yesterday i was so fool to go to 北欧館 again and jerking off with a pretty chub and came back home and jerked off by myself again rememebering the situation. i feeeeel emptiness(賢者モード) after that.
>>614 I wonder why, of all the languages, did you choose Japanese? Some like anime, other like Judo etc., but as for you, the motivation was some pure ligusitic curiosity?
NSA "No strings attached" in reference to sex. When gay men use this term, it means that they are using their sexuality as an excuse to avoid commitment or cheat on their partner. Generally, gay men that use this term begin using it at an early age and will continue to use it until they are in their 40s and finally realize that they are now too old to just hook up, but they are totally alone because gay men their age are either in real relationships or only interested in young men that use this term. They come to regret their years of NSA lifestyle and wish that they had focused on more important things than sex.
Super Bowl of this year really excited me. Congrats Patriots. It's almost baseball season. Can't wait. I know most people in this thread aren't interested in it though.
>>627 When I started I wanted to be able to pass the 漢検1級 but now I haven't given it much thought. Some people ask why I chose Japanese instead of Chinese since I like 漢字、to which I tell them I don't like how Chinese sounds. How about you, why do you continue English? Are you a 外人ハンター? (゚∀゚)
I can't write 欝. I have never writen in all my life and I won't and needn't write it. Gaijins sometimes write 欝 on TV programs and Japanese praise them, saying すごい, but the すごい is the ultimate insincere compliment.
>>641 Back in the UK, I have a friend who can't tell Japanese, Chinese, or Korean apart. I'm not sure why, since he's seen many movies from various countries. But I don't think he does it on purpose.
>>639 HAHA, yeah kind of (≧▽≦) A man is a natural born hunter! And I found loads of guys still can't speak English in Europe, so only English is not enough!
漢検1級 is nuts! Far from practical until you want to read classic Chinese poetry and, imo, kanjis are sort of visual letters so that you don't always need to WRITE them properly. When you can READ them, that's enough.
Some kun-yomi and ateji which Chinese never have are really attractive, such as 不知火(しらぬい)、東雲(しののめ)、同胞(はらから)、海神(わだつみ) etc....
Gaijin here. Japanese does have that same sort of "sharp" sound but it's nowhere near as harsh as Chinese, which sounds like cats being beaten to death. Generally, all the Asian languages are indistinguishable to completely untrained ears. (You're going to hate this next part) Japanese and Korean are very similar sounding to people that don't hear the difference a lot. You both are sharp, but sort of flow-y languages that don't have the same monosyllabic tonal garbage that Chinese has. Of the two, though, I like Japanese better. I don't speak either language, so sometimes it's difficult for me to hear the difference. What does English sound like to you?
I'm Canadian so more American than British, although my Canadian accent is pretty strong (I talk like a hick.) Here's an example: http://vocaroo.com/i/s14CGUh7mBHL
I've met many girls like kanadaijin3. They're friggin' weird. Weebs are generally crazy but the weeb girls are a special brand of crazy. This one time I was in high-school and there was this girl named Judy. She wanted to be called some shitty pseudo-Japanese name like Sakura or something like that. She also claimed to speak Japanese from watching anime, but she could never do it. She also always smelled like cat piss. Not as bad as some of her friends but the cat piss smell was always there. Also she was batshit. I was in grade 9 drama with her and one day I had to operate the lights. She came over to my booth and said "stop turning on the lights, I'm epileptic (she's not epileptic)" And I said "I... I have to. That's my job." So she let out this horrible screeching noise and started banging on the little window in my booth. Thank Christ it locked from the inside. Eventually she stormed out. Also on the final exam we had to preform a scene we (and by we I mean I, because I did all the work in that group) wrote and she didn't show up so we had to get some random girl from another group to fill in. Bitch cost me like 10% of my mark. She also claimed to talk to ghosts. Anyway point is there's hundreds of these over here (though not nearly as many as before), but I can't even imagine how severe it must be to actually MOVE to Japan. That's a whole other level of crazy.
Generally, if a white gaijin is in your country, it's because his life in his own country was absolute shit and he couldn't relate to people here. If someone's willing to abandon their connections and move halfway around the world for no real economic gain, it's because they were depressed or couldn't relate to their own people. The normal ones stay here.
>>670 I agree on that. I heard so many other Japanese students whining about living in America while I was there for school.
Every time they talked about how much they hate it there and said they want to go back to Japan, I thought the same thing as you do.
Yet most of them stayed to go to college. I didn't understand, why the hell would they choose to stay after everything they've said? They were crazy or a bunch of masochists or what?
>>673 I learned that shit in psychology class. Besides I went through those myself too but I got over it eventually. As opposed to me, the people I was talking about, they always hated living there. At least it seemed that way to me
Generally speaking, it's said that Canadian English is similar to that of northern part of America. Canadian pride hinders them from admitting this fact?
I think international community should try to bring Asado back to power. He is better than ISIS.America should not stick to its policy. When ISIS is terminated,leave Syria alone and have Asado power.. If U.S join Syria freedom army?, another ISIS will emerge sooner or later. Syria will be caught up in an endless war.
>>645 Amazing. I only know of one foreigner who successfully completed 漢検1級、he works in Japan as a lawyer. I'm not Japanese though so I guess I'm SOL.
>>652 Yes I've heard many times that modern Japanese forget how to write, because of computers and whatnot. Which is understandable. Wow I really like 不知火。Thanks.
I think the Iraq and Syria should be controlled by Rothschild zionists who are everywhere in the U.S., Switzerland and Germany. The ancestors of Rothschild zionists come from Mesopotamia region. Some are jews, but Rothschild zionists are originally from Sumer. American administration has been right.
>>682 We live in a strange, crazy day. All you have to do is to make up your mind to watch a crazy video for free if you wanna watch a man burned alive .... Such videos were once called 都市伝説 urban legend and hard to get by. It was rumored such things were circulated by criminal gangs and were available in inner circle.
Let's just pray for the soul of the jordan pilot and offer deepest condolences to him.
why chinese characters of 皿(dish) and 血(blood)are resemble each other whearas these meanings are totally differet. you know we will be on season of ヤマザキ春のパン祭り(Yamazakis's bread prize contest on spring) which distribute many dishes in exchange of the points appended with yamazaki's breads. to say that means 皿祭り literally, but when you hear the term as 血祭り, you must imagine the gored situations such as massacre of a jordan pilot today.
i had a job interview today and was asked "what would you do next if everything would be completely corrected that should've been corrected?" i paused a while to open my mouth to say a word...
yesterday, i bought a humidifier at ヨドバシカメラ to recover from torturous sore throat. there were so many kinds of products to choose from and i didn't know which one to buy so i almost left the selection to a store clerk who addressed me out of nowhere... i bought the one from TOSHIBA.
i read an article about coca cola launching green coca cola. what does coca cola zero addict-san think about this news? i wonder she / he will try it out later.
I realized I can't make out even what しろくまのクロード (I don't know original title) is saying. I've learned a lesson about that my listening skill is quite poor.
http://shukan.bunshun.jp/articles/-/4806 Someone contributed a picture in which he insulted Muhammad to Twitter. Informations in which people prusumed the name of him duffesed in Internet.
The police in this area has been cautious with fearing that terrorists relating to ISIL will assault him.
Will terrorists assault him really? But occidentals are conspicuous in Japan.
I hate Koreans. Koreans always say Japan should apologize to them like Germany. Fuck Korenas. Japan didn't fight against Korea. Japan didn't kill Koreans.
I've never watched any beheading videos of hostages nor the one where the pilot was burned to death.
Did any of you watch any of them?
CNN decided not to air even a fraction of the execution video of the Jordanian pilot because that could help spread the propaganda of ISIS, while Fox shows it on their website. Maybe as far as I know, Fox is considered right wing and trying to spark American patritism?
If you are promoting these videos or even watching them, you are no different than the actors of such atrocities. you are making extreme violence mainstream, yourself a voyeur and a consumer of extremism. You can take action by refusing to watch it and don't allow media to capitalise on sensationalism.
>Fox shows it on their website To what extent, did they? Whcih do you mean, Fox is showing the entire video or several picures? I've only seen some pictures which include a picture of man on fire. Those were horrendous. Japanese media seems to show one picture, man's anguished face in the fence.
>>709 i watched a video a man is burned to death which seems ISIS editted(the burned scene was cut to an extent). the 22 minute video means a raw video that described the iginition process explicitly?
>>727 let's go outside and get to know as many real, 3D girls as possible. the frequent correspondences between you and them will deprive you of time you can spend masturbating.
ttp://hikimusyoku.blog.so-net.ne.jp/2015-02-04 I checked on the site above.This site described the scene only with words. He seems to have not screamed, rather groaned. He got down on his knees and grabbed the bars, then some liquid spewed from his nose and eyes...Bulldozar came in and pour huge amount of rubbles upon him with shovel.
The Japanese Internet and TV are filled with Anti-Japan and the left wing communists Most of Japanese don't share same interest with them because some of them are anti-Japan. I feel pretty strange about some comments here and there since Japanese is not good with sharing opinions What you guys are saying here, it really disgust me so much
What happened in Jordan and here in Japan was a huge tragedy that we will never forget. I personally think that our Japanese civilians were so unconsicous about the danger in ISIL since we had a long peace after WWII. We even did not know that we were targeted by the terrorists until this occured and it was so shocking in many ways. I do consider that it was so hard for Prime minister Abe to make a right decision after 70 years of peace
I am conservative but what really is a problem here in Japan is that the left wing lost their votes after they had admitted the fabrication of the comfort women and Asahi needs to try very hard be a real liberal in Japan Most Japanese are willing to support them, although, sometimes we do feel some anger, so that in that way, we have our balance fixed
We really do want to know about the facts and I believe that it is the only way to make Asia stablize
A role of Asahi is very important and we really need their coorperation Mostly, I believe the freedom of speech, press, and the liberty without no fabrication but the fact that we all wish to know
I consider contitution article 9, RENUNCIATION OF WAR, is very noble We have many of our citizens kidnapped by North Koreans, few civilians were killed by terrorists in the past but most Japanese would not want to have a war anymore Instead, we had tried so hard to make our economy stablize and help other counties as well even if they are obviously anti-Japan
For example, Japan had paid 2.5 times national budget of Korea to support them Helped their car and electronic devices fields with the technologies that he have When Korea's economy got stablized, their govt stated that Takeshima is their own land
I consider that it would be our best choice to stay away from Korea and China for awhile since our ideology differs as well We are democratic govt and they are communists We really don't care what they support but we would like to stick with the democratic govt Most Japanese are not that interested anymore but some congressmen and congresswomen are so eager There are some aka-maru in Japanese society as well They believe in communism but they were the terrorists in the past so most Japanese do not like them
We all have different ideology and I feel no problem as long as they are doing fine We were democratic govt since Meiji era,before the World War We live in a very small island and I think that made it possible Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore, they are all islands, you know
No. Stick with China the super power. The stupid Korean think they can win over in capitalism against Jews with no plot. But, it's rather thoughtless of Korean. The united states stays with China also. Japan will be a good partner of China in trade as it has been. And, Japan will be creating new type of Japanese Socialism based on Yamato nationalism.
I like most Chinese because most of them do have manner in Japan but it seems that they don't have manner in the other countries I think that is a very bad thing and their govt need to work on that They have pride so they use their own names but Koreans use Japanese name We all used to think that many crimes were commited by Japanese and were so shocked back then. Some Koreans use their own names and I really like that because I feel that they have pride about their own roots, even we don't share the same opinions
For example, when they are in US, they just change their names like Jessica Kim but here in Japan, they just change all. Including their Surname. Kim is 金 but they put some kind of trash after that. Like 金山 and in Japan, we say Kanayama or just change everything I mean like "hey? there is Kim, by the way" It is totally my own opinion but I feel quite confused and it lacks confidence
Some are living in Japan for such a long generations but they claim that they are Koreans and that is also very confusing If they say that they are an Japanese of Korean descent, it is understandable. Some fit into Japanese society and some don't and that is making things worse, I think We don't ask them to be totally Japanese and we really respect their own culture, but it seems that they are the ones who don't have respect to their own roots
Well, but I heard some regard themselves as a Japanese and their Japanese names are more comfortable so I do not know what to say. Although, they are Zainichi, having Korean citizenship, for like 5th generations. It seems pretty odd to me Some even cannot speak Koreans and how can they live there? I'd once read about Confucianism in Korea but they have strong bond with their father and if their father told them not to be Japanese, they just stick with their own country and it seems not quite comfy to me
I told them, why not to become a Japanese but it seems strong Confucianism won't let them. Sad thing, isn't it I would never thought about changing my name, just marriage, even I go somewhere else in the world Most Japanese have hard time understanding their opinions because we don't do such a thing that so often
many people wear white masks these days. i heard that most of native english speakers don't have a habit of wearing masks so they're a bit surprised when they come to japan and look at japanese people in winter. they seem to think that some awful infectious disease has spread.
I'm just a student learning the World History. According to the Japanese textbook of World History that I believe is "neutral", in the annexation of Korea, the Japanese govt had them given the Japanese names, which is written as 創氏改名. what do you say about this? Plus, please don't identify me, if ever, with one of those so-called Koreans as you speak about.
>>754 Now, it is a global world but back in the past our surname was given or choose a surname they wanted Japanese are not like Americans since Edo era We were all Japanese and Koreans were the first immigrants
Nowadays, we got so many types of white masks There is a wet type to prevent from dryness and some wear that when then go to sleep to prevent their throats
There is many forests in Japan and some have bad allergies so there is a eggshell type as well.
your breath moisture is not that good enough it is mostly pretty stinky. It is expensive than cotton type dry type mask but it works so well with your throat
Eggshell type is very very expensive but those people with bad allergies, they cannot live without it. Hey fever is totally killing them They have red eyes and bad coughs without it
Japanese women tend to deny masterbating on daily basis while Western women are more open to talking their masterbation habit.
There's no problem with women masterbating. It releases stress, helps you fall asleep easily. Oppressing sexual desire doesn't have positive effects on your mental health.
most masks are used daily and thrown away after that We have packages of dry mask everywhere in a drug store It is considered etiquette here in Japan and people seems pretty yuck and a barbarous act when they cough without a mask
As you see, our bath, we consider neatness is our virtue since very very long time ago
But if you feel miserable about fingering your clit or putting your fingers in your vagina, just call me. I can help you. Call 1-800 **$%&%. Or email me at helpyoumasterbate.com.
Seriously, if you need someone to talk to while masterbating, you can get someone on Skype or other messaging apps. Actually lots of women are doing masterbation on such applications. Doing masterbation on Skype is called エロイプ.
The masterbation is their own rights so it is okay. We do not bother but saying in front of the public is a completely different matter. Do I really need to talk about this? It seems pretty rude to me
>>766 We are living in a small island and we are all different and have different history. The leukemia in Japan was just a tragedy that we will never forget and we totally appreciate for our own health and care about others as well
Many of our relatives did died with poverty related leukemia in the past and we had heard it so many times
>>765 Oh god, cyber sex is even worse. I tried it before but it only left me feeling so shitty after. I need physical touch, you know. I wanna be cuddled and kissed and that kind of thing. Not necessarily sex! If I were single I would go ahead and sign myself up for online dating sites and get myself a date. But I have a bf, long distance so things are not so easy. Most importantly I luv him I don't wanna cheat on him we can be together soon anyway so it's fine
>>767 Don't forget we're in 2ch. Nothing is rude here.
>>770 Japanese women tend to avoid using online dating sites because they think of them as dubious. I heard western women have less mental barriar to online dating sites. You are either a Nikushoku-kei joshi or have western style mindset or both.
At first our letters usually starts with mentioning about the seasons then about our health Thinking about the first sentence was the hardest thing to do It goes back to Haiku, short but beautiful and mention about the season
Then watching beautiful a character of the words, like calligraphy, was something so unforgettable. At the same time I felt so ashamed of sloppiness
I don't think penis size matters. Women cum just by inserting a finger in vagina, that vertually means it's OK as long as your penis size is the same size as a finger,
I understand about moji-fetish Some write in very beautiful characters in very short time we call it, 習字, shu-ji A good posture and spatial perception They are so talented. It is same with the usage of chapsticks
>>775 I spent some years abroad when I was a teen so I guess I'm a bit westernized. But online dating is becoming more common. It's still not totally acceptable in Japan but way better than a few years back I think. I know quite a lot of people who met their partners online although they don't say it out loud
I am half westernized but I don't like those things I think it just depends on people. It is not right nor wrong but it is something about what you feel comfortable doing as long as you respect others
I do not believe in affairs or having sex without thinking of marriage or having a baby I am very conservative but I don't care about others as long as they don't bother me
>>781 I know. You'd find it a little difficult explaining to your friends and parents how and where you and your partner met. Especially in a Japanese wedding ceremony, as you know you have to tell all the participants where the new couple met. It would be acceptable if a couple meet on an online forum where people with the same hobbies gather and mingle, but online dating site could make a bad impression. Of course you don't have to be honest about where you met.
>>787 We always are told be be moderate, and it is sort of usual manner here If we say too much it is considered barbaric and always are told to stay no more than 80% eventhough it is right thing to say If we are much closer, then it will be like 40 to 50% I consider open-minded is rather more like continental background rather than an island We totally hate dispute but we are facing with the continent so we have to adapt to it sometimes, but it is so stressful
The continents, they always had disputes and conflicts unlike Japan Japan is the island, so we are more like Galapagos, we have our own unique backgrounds. We are not used to "very straight words" we really feel so uncomfortable but we used many metaphors and we just know what they are trying to say. For example, this is very famous one, in Kyoto when this person says, " Would you like to have some bubu-zuke(a dish which comes very last)?" It means, "it is time for you to go home"
Although, it is considered to be so important for us to leave before they tell you that, or we feel ashamed not reading the atmosphere Our traditional virtue is "be sensible and be considerate" Nowadays, some do not have it somehow Although, it doesn't really work for people from the foreign countries Sometimes we see very sensible foreigners but it is very rare
Although, would you consider open-minded is very important? Sometimes I feel it is very cruel. The truth is always cruel I do consider that there are many divoces because people are way too open-minded
In relationships like marriage, if we try to be deeply sincere, sometimes it is important to not to show the truth or not to try to see the truth and blind ourselves
I always consider that there are two types of people
There are people with "the view of human nature as fundamentally goodbelief in the innate goodness of man" and "the view of human nature as fundamentally depraved" I think Japanese society is more realistic about human being rather than optimistic We had history of immigrations before Edo era and had many conflicts back then including famine so many times
>>789 Regarding to continental that you said, the Chinese are more like American than Japanese. I heard they do husband and wife quarrel on the street openly.
Yes. It is difficult to change logical into money. If I am a famous person, I will make the result public. I am afraid my idea is lifted, so I have to keep it secret. The secret makes me lonely.
>>802 What about publishing a book for your own cost? Or some publishers might be interested in your idea if it's valuable. In that case, you don't need to shoulder the publishing cost in advance.
You shouldn't be lonely with precious ideas! Share them with us. I am willing to pay some money for you.
>>809 I don't think so. while some Japanese think Japan is pretty peaceful, some don't feel that way like families of victims kept being abducted in Nkorea. they must have been thinking that Japanese gov. is still ignoring them.
But that's one bad result of Japanese ostrich policy.. I may have been abducted too if I had happened to encouter north korean agents. Japanese goverment kept hiding the facts, fearing the backlash of North Koreans.
Don't put me back to reality. lol
I just thought japanese humor might even melt ISIS's hearts, which is probably delusion after all. .
>>798 Eventhough, we are the same Asian, we do not fully understand China China is very complicated. Ryoutarou Siba once said that "America and China, they are more like a civilization and Japan is a culture" We do have different characteristics
There are other novels in Japan about China, which I had read once but that was much more complicated. I read like so many times but there was a limit to my understanding. China is more like mystified to us.
That is why we always say like " China has history of 4000 years" Very very complicated When I think about Chinese, I think Deng Xiaoping is the significant one but there is a limit to my understanding
Kotatsu is so great I am so happy to be Japanese because of kotatsu It is very comfy with Japanese oranges I sometimes sleep inside kotatsu while watching tv and it is definitely so good feeling
I'd tried to buy Kitty's kotatsu cover but my parents didn't admit it I'm middle aged but I do love Kitty and Kiki Lala Guess what? My room is filled with Kitty, Kiki Lala, Snoopy, and Disney characters! I would be so happy to die with those characters even if I become 70s lol
Shimamura has lots of those goods A pillow, covers, cushions, tissue cover, futon, just everything Who cares? No one is really coming into my room so I would do everything I want to do
>>832 Her anime is just so great I also love Yoko Matsumoto, a horror anime She draws a gothic so perfect Unlike today, several years ago, those were all hand-made We were also so into drawing back then. Although, I wasn't good but assisted my friend. We had so many tools
Several of us were exchanging a journal and two of them drew so well and it was so amazing. They drew anime so we were reading that as well. Mostly were 4-cell manga with a humour about teachers, you know
We had a sleepover so much and we all helped drawings There were tracing papers with so many designs and it was just so so so fun! Hand-made is so different than what we have today
It is true though. Especially during Summer Japan is so humid so it is terribly stinky We must have men and women separated in a train but idiot men are against that
>>819 Once it was 3000 years. Koreans claim they have 5000years, half a 万年10,000 history.
Aside from korean nonsense, China continent must have had a civilazation some 3-4 thousand years ago. But I doubt the validality of the China Civiliazation. For example, people outthere must have spoken a complete different language. Once it was called Yellow River Valley Civilaization. Communist China starts to call it the Civilization of China. I think there is a correlation between China and Iraq. It's like calling the Civilization of Mesopotamia "the Civilization of Iraq".
>>849 They had a tea ceremony and an flower arts but somehow those vanished. They are so good at creating things but somehow they vanish within their long history
There are a lot of discussions about Zainichi, here in Japan but it is not that of a problem. The bih problem is that we have too many elderly here. They don't pass out but they have dementia The left wing in Japan, they opposed so badly about euthanasia.
Although, there are some cases where a child watches after 90yrs old grandparent and 60yrs old parent. They are both dementia
Some are very absurd and obviously it seems like a sexist to me but they say that all women just need to have a baby or like, have many children
What are congress women doing there? ・There is exactly no view of problem with elderly is too costly ・We don't just have a baby, we need to have a plan to RAISE a baby (For example, what happened in Romania was a tragedy) ・Leaving all problems to the citizens instead of govt doing nothing
Today I went to Japantown to get ramen. It was quite good for America; the noodles had かん水 and weren't too soft, the 豚骨 broth was decent (although a little too salty and not quite fatty enough), and the かくに was good. Super-expensive, though: $18 for a bowl that is merely decent by Tokyo standards. I miss going to AFURI in Ebisu.
btw, I got Prince Albert finally! This was the sorest piercing I ever had!!! When a needle is stuck onto your cock, I think it's less painful than you suppose.
But when you pee with PA, you will have terrible terrible pain for the first 5-7 days!!! Imagine a wound is dipped into salt water!!!
I always apply vaseline to my cockhead before piss, which eases the pain ....