2016-08-23, 10:40 | Link #3561 | |
AS Oji-kun
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"Naked" festivals
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2016-10-07, 08:57 | Link #3562 |
AS Oji-kun
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Squeezed between the generations
This video from the New York Times follows a middle-aged man as he cares for his aged and sadly incompetent mother and his six-year-old daughter. He also works at an advertising agency where he is under pressure to resign because of his cross-pressured life. Unlike the men in Usagi Drop and Amaama to Inazuma, Hayate-san is married, but his wife is away ten days a month working as a flight attendant. And neither of those men in the idealized world of anime also have to care for an aging parent. The aging of the Japanese population will put more and more people into this situation as the number of young people, who might work in fields like elder care, declines. Of course, permitting greater levels of immigration from places like the Philippines and Southeast Asia to take on those jobs might help mitigate the problem, but we all know Japan is unlikely to relax its immigration standards anytime soon. Here in the US, about a quarter of home health aides come from foreign countries.
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2016-12-26, 22:54 | Link #3565 | |
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To be accurate, this isn't a story about Japanese culture but about Western views of Japanese culture. The New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players intended to mount a production of The Mikado last year but scrapped it after concerns about the racist stereotypes the show portrays. This issue has plagued a number of recent productions including one where the story was relocated to Italy with the first line of the opening number changed from "We are gentlemen of Japan" to "We are gentlemen of Milan!" Thankfully the New York G&S have not gone quite so far, but they are taking pains to avoid things like taping back the actors' eyes to make them more "slanty" and using yellowcake makeup.
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2017-01-06, 07:34 | Link #3568 | |
AS Oji-kun
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With Manicures and Makeup, Japan’s ‘Genderless’ Blur Line Between Pink and Blue
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2017-01-06, 09:23 | Link #3569 | |
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"How Japan has almost eradicated gun crime":
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-38365729 I'm not sure how accurate the article is, but I thought it might be an interesting read. The historical instances of gun control in Japan feels a bit miss-characterised to me but I'm not an expert. Quote:
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2017-01-26, 05:33 | Link #3570 | |
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Rock, paper scissors and the fierce world of Japanese pop:
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2017-01-26, 13:48 | Link #3571 | |
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2017-01-27, 03:54 | Link #3572 | |
今宵の虎徹は血に飢えている
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2017-01-27, 11:47 | Link #3573 |
AS Oji-kun
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Eighteen-year-old Hataoka Nasa has joined the LPGA womens' golf tour and had a good start (-1) in yesterday's first round of the season-opening tournament in the Bahamas.
Normally that wouldn't be sufficient for me to post here, except for an amusing tidbit about her name. I had never heard any character in anime named "Nasa," and it turns out there's a good reason for that. She's named after the US space agency NASA. Apparently her mother was a big fan of the US space program. Wonder if the two of them watched Uchuu Kyoudai together?
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2017-02-03, 05:25 | Link #3574 |
今宵の虎徹は血に飢えている
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http://vote1.fc2.com/browse/30692961/3/
Poll (unofficial) going around which will be submitted for consideration. Asks which artistes would you like for 2020 Olympic celebrations Vote 和楽器バンド please
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2017-02-10, 14:15 | Link #3578 | ||
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More on low-wage immigrants working in Japan
Warning, it's not pretty: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/10/b...ers-trump.html Quote:
American cars? Japanese say, "no thank you." https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/09/b...ican-cars.html Quote:
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2017-02-11, 10:44 | Link #3580 |
今宵の虎徹は血に飢えている
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Honestly, rule of thumb to working in Japan seems to be...you must be a specialist in a field and you must be good (for science it seemed to be minimum PhD requirement. Not sure about now. Arts like music will of course be way harder) otherwise you'll just end up no where. General labour jobs is obviously a no go (and pointless also...why would you spend so much to go to another country just to do a slave job which even locals find terrible)
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