2008-06-10, 11:57 | Link #661 |
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There's been some heavy-duty discussions in this thread.
On a lighter note, I'll ask Naoya-san (or whomever else wants to answer) a question: Is there peanut butter in Japan? Is this something people usually eat? (smeared on bread to make a sandwich?) |
2008-06-10, 12:31 | Link #663 |
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Hmm...well...I don't even remember her name anymore...so I guess that means it's no longer a biggie for me.
Or it could also mean I was so traumatised that I've blacked out the memory...one of the benefits of growing older (and hopefully wiser). |
2008-06-10, 21:35 | Link #664 | |
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In Japan, children in public elementary schools gather every morning into local groups to commute. 登校班 (toukou-han / groups to go to the school) is their name. The senior children take leadership and care for the younger ones. Although no adults join to the group, major crossroads are covered by paid(*) and volunteer supervisors. (* Once the job was offered to widows who lost their husbands in traffic accidents. Namely it was also charity policy for jobless widows. But these days volunteers come to take the major role.) The time when the classes end differs according to the grades, so the group system is useless on the way home. But they can rely on gas stations an convenience stores when stalked by unfamiliar adults. Such shops have hot-lines to the police and help children escape. Below is the mark of hot-line shops. Spoiler for Sticker:
I do not think the system is well made, but it is fact that Japan has relatively succeeded to suppress kidnapping so far. The middle table (marked 2 年少者略取誘拐) indicates the number of kidnapping cases of those less than 13 years old. Spoiler for Table:
The green line shows the number of killed children in elementary schools. Spoiler for Graph:
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2008-06-11, 19:38 | Link #666 | |
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I think the peanuts cropped in Japan are rather turned into Kaki-Pi. |
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2008-06-11, 21:08 | Link #668 | |
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Thanks for the peanut butter insight.
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2008-06-11, 23:59 | Link #670 |
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It really doesn't matter what area.... Americans, on the average, are morbidly unhealthy - walking medical disasters. This is true in the Northwest, the South, the Southeast, the Southwest, the ... well, you get the idea. Except for the rare walking city (like SFO or NY), morbid obesity is completely out of hand.
Despite me supporting universal health care - I'd almost rather see a national mandate to trim and slim to improve basic health *status*. My friends from Japan and Korea are universally appalled when they visit, my wife has not changed shape in 20 years yet has moved from size 4 to size 0 minus (the industry shifting numbers to make the fat happy they're a "size 6") -- and worst of all, all I have to do is walk the mall to feel thin when I'm actually 20 pounds overweight.
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2008-06-12, 00:01 | Link #671 | |
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2008-06-12, 04:12 | Link #672 |
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You're not kiddin'. I'm an American, and I was pretty overweight, but just about "average" for other people of my age and height in the country. Since I moved to Japan though, I've lost 50 pounds. In nine months. Not bad for a lifestyle change, eh? (Though now I am deathly afraid of what will happen when I go back...)
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2008-06-12, 11:11 | Link #674 |
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Question about what constitutes children's anime in Japan?
The last time I was in Japan, I was in a smaller DVD/CD store [I can't recall where, but I don't think it was Akihabara].
In the part of the store that sold DVDs, there was a section labelled 'Kid's Anime'. Within that section were DVDs of 'Girls Bravo' (!) is this considered content appropriate for children? or was this some kind of mixup? |
2008-06-12, 14:12 | Link #675 |
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Yes, its content appropriate for japanese children since they weren't raised with ancient vestiges of puritan bipolar attitudes about sex
Seriously, there's little in Girls Bravo that *really* is inappropriate -- its just silly, bawdy humor that involves skin and embarrassment. Kanokon, on the other hand, might be up for some debate as to "kid appropriate" even in Japan, but most industrialized countries outside the US are more concerned about kids viewing violence than skin.
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2008-06-13, 04:50 | Link #676 | |
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By the way, as Vexx pointed, I admit Japanese people are (have been) tolerant on sexual imagination. Whoever sees Hokusai's artwork in 1820 could understand the origin of sexual aspect of otaku culture, I think. |
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2008-06-13, 08:00 | Link #677 | |
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Note that Chigasaki is not so urban, but not so rural -- a typical satellite city of Yokohama and Kawasaki. I cannot judge if the numbers above can be applied to the whole country. If it comes to the case of less dense areas outside Keihin megalopolis, I believe the numbers surely increase much more. |
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2008-06-13, 14:22 | Link #678 | |
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aaaahhh, natsukashii xD That takes me back to a certain sex museum in uwajima, the original copy (or a replica) hangs there and i took a pic of it thinking 'hey, at least japan got their heads screwed right with the giving female oral thing, even if the giver isn't quite of our species ..and continuing from that, there was a mother with her 4 year old boy in there who left the kid to his own devices, so no, japan aren't too bothered sex wise, what with the penis shrines and festivals, fertility charms, onsens and hard gay gyrating his hips near 6 year old kids or less on national tv of course (see his 'help a ramen shop gain customers' skit)
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2008-06-13, 21:23 | Link #679 |
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I have a few questions.
1)What will be the best time of the year to visit Akihabara, weather wise and culture wise? 2)If I can only speak english and chinese, will i have problems communicating with the service people there? 3)What are the "must go" places to see there? Thanks in advance. |
2008-06-13, 21:30 | Link #680 | |
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