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Then again, if it is indeed as planned thenit is one hell of a blessing from the mayor.
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2015-12-06, 18:30 | Link #3522 |
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Goodbye To Japan’s Manga King:
"Japan’s beloved one-armed cartoonist, social critic, and war veteran Shigeru Mizuki, died Nov. 30 of multiple organ failure at a Tokyo hospital. He was 93. He was most known for his Japanese horror comic books (manga) about GeGeGe no Kitarō (Spooky Kitarō). The series starred a traditionally clad Japanese monster boy as the hero, who with his motley crew of friends—Ratman, Cat-Girl, The Sand-Throwing Hag and other characters drawn from traditional folklore—protected Japan from indigenous and foreign evil monsters." See: http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...anga-king.html |
2015-12-17, 12:00 | Link #3523 |
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Age: 74
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Sorry, ladies, but no you cannot keep your name
My first wife kept her name when we got married back in 1973. Why is this even an issue in 2015? Well I guess the couple could be adopt her name instead of his, but as the article says, the number of such cases is diminishingly small. I can see this becoming a bigger issue if gay marriage is ever legalized rather than just "certified" in Shibuya. I wonder if any of the three female justices voted with the majority?
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2015-12-20, 19:37 | Link #3524 |
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Join Date: Jan 2008
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In rapidly aging Japan, dying is big business:
"In Japan, death is an opportunity for growth. Business growth, that is. In a country with many more deaths than births each year, Japanese companies are looking to maximize the amount of money people spend on shuffling off their mortal coil, from preparing “ending notes” and choosing coffins to arranging to have their ashes blasted into space or turned into diamonds." "Japan has the fastest-aging population in the world. Slightly more than one-quarter of the population is 65 or older, and the Health Ministry forecasts that the proportion will hit 40 percent by 2060." See: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...588_story.html |
2016-02-06, 22:38 | Link #3525 |
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The Yakuza Are Running Japan’s Hollywood:
"Japan’s entertainment industry is infested with organized crime and despite crackdowns on “yakuza Hollywood” nothing much seems to change. For example, last month 10 comedians from the colossal Yoshimoto Kogyo talent agency were caught up (innocently, they said) in a yakuza insurance fraud scheme involving, ahem, free massages. The scam reportedly netted over a million dollars. Who will be prosecuted remains murky. And that’s business as usual. What is unusual is for a yakuza boss to break the code of silence and discuss how the talent agency he worked for intimidated its stars and the media, even using other yakuza to get the job done." See: http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...hollywood.html |
2016-02-13, 07:05 | Link #3526 | |
Moving in circles
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Singapore
Age: 49
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Roses are red, elbows are blue: Japan's women fight for their Valentines
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2016-02-19, 05:09 | Link #3527 |
Moving in circles
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Singapore
Age: 49
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Twitter user posts drawings to show difference between schoolgirl uniforms in major cities
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2016-02-29, 04:31 | Link #3528 | |
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2016-02-29, 04:39 | Link #3529 | |
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- I find Osaka pretty weird for Anime!Japan (the skirt length is normal here in our country though [/mad]), but it does suit their stereotypical goofy personality. - Fukushima = Absolute Territory FTW! *goes to Fukushima, activates PERVERT MODE, does evil laugh* - Heave ho! Okinawa Sailors! YAAHR! - Fukuoka definitely screams the countryside. - For some reason, I find Nagoya pretty bland. - Tokyo is the polar opposite of Fukuoka, it just screams "I'm in the city!" - I like how modest the schoolgirls are in Kobe. Are there a lot of Christian schools there, by any chance? - Wow, Niigata skirts are too short they look like they're not wearing anything underneath!~ Best Uniforms Fukushima (#FukushimaSchoolGirlsMasterRace) Tokyo (Welcome to the City!) Hokkaido Special Honors Okinawa (Sailors!) Kobe (Catholic School Girls FTW) Fukuoka (Definitely Country) Worst Uniforms Nagoya (looks bland IMO) Niigata (the skirt is too short, pardon my bad taste) Osaka (the model pisses me off for some reason) Comments - Damn, I really envy Japanese HS girls. They can wear really cute uniforms like that in school but our school girls can only wear the Osaka, Kobe, and Nagoya type uniforms because 1) we don't want to piss off the Catholic clergy, 2) we don't want to piss off the parents, and 3) we don't want our girls to get raped in the streets for wearing Japanese-style uniforms (you think Japanese girls have it bad, ours have it 10x worse!) - In relation to above, I do see more schools in our country (at least in Manila) adapting similar uniforms from the Japanese ones, but it's usually limited to the lower-tier colleges and universities, the higher-tier schools don't have uniforms as skimpy as the Japanese ones, but in state colleges and universities you can wear pretty much whatever you like as long as it doesn't really offend anybody. - Does any Filipino AS forumer find it ironic that Japanese schoolgirls wear thigh-length skirts under the freezing cold of winter while Filipino schoolgirls wear knee-to-ankle-length skirts under the scorching heat of the sun? Last edited by judasmartel; 2016-02-29 at 05:24. |
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2016-02-29, 07:16 | Link #3530 | |
Princess or Plunderer?
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2016-02-29, 21:48 | Link #3531 | |
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Location: Cainta, Rizal, Philippines
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OT: There is one school in front of LRT 2 train station where the female students do wear knee to thigh length socks with their anime style uniforms (white puffy sleeved dress under a black vest, teal ribbons, thinly checkered thigh length skirt, thigh high socks seem to be optional, but I see a lot of female students from that school wearing those when I pass through the train station). |
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2016-05-25, 00:06 | Link #3535 |
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Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Holy Terra
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I have a question:
Is Japan's xenophobia result of their policy of isolation they have until 1855? I for one find it fascinating that they are a nation that has 98% ethical population in modern times. edit: now that I looked other Asian countries I found them similar to Japan - each having around 90% of their ethical population. So it's something common to the region then? |
2016-05-25, 04:03 | Link #3537 |
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Location: Athens (GMT+2)
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That article is just playing with semantics; the majority of students do whatever they need through their mobile phones, so it's more like they don't have a need for a laptop or desktop. They got mobile games, text editors, pdf readers, apps for all kinds of things, including chat programs and web browsers, so calling them computer illiterate just because their choice of medium differs is going a bit too far.
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As for China, what I understand there is that although technically there are other ethnicities, the Chinese basically all consider themselves to be of the Han. This one though I'm far less certain about. Quote:
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2016-05-25, 12:15 | Link #3539 | |
Haven't You Heard?
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: South-east Asia
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It stems from Japan nature as an island, effectively make isolation simple and convenient. What more, Japan is an islands that always has had a singular dominant culture and a single dominant state, unlike other countries that once conquered or had multitude cultures from the very start. Nowadays, with all the tension surrounding them, surely some of them getting strict when it comes to foreigners. Japan is not as xenophobic as some make it out to be, most people, even in rural areas, will be welcoming of people--surprised but welcoming all the same; still the usual 'respect them, they'll respect you'. |
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2016-05-25, 12:58 | Link #3540 | |
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Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Holy Terra
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I have several friends who were there and all of them were overjoyed with their stay. They described how Japanese are nice, open, helpful people who will accept you nicely. But they also told me that while Japanese will be glad for you to visit them or maybe even work there for several years but they would be most glad if you decide to not settle and live the rest of your life in Japan. They are very closed nation and xenophobic in a way that they will not tolerate large number of different nationalities moving to live on their island. And I totally understand that, they are an island and as such much more concentrated about who is living among them. I mean, just look at Demographics of other nations: -France has 89.7% French living in France. -Germany has 80% Germans living in Germany. -Britain has around 85% British living in Britain. -Russia has 81% Russians living in Russia. -even my own country ( Serbia ) has 83% of Serbs living here, the rest 17% are minorities. And now Japan - 98.5% of Japanese living in Japan. The minorities there are almost all Asians, only 0.1% are non-Asians. But it's not just Japan: -China has 91.51% of Han Chinese. -South Korea has does not have the data at all but rather only the number of foreign nationals on statistic ( around 2 million for nation of 50 million, so also above 90% of South Koreans ). -Taiwan has 95% Han Chinese living on it;s territory. - Vietnam is only in area that has less than 90% - 85.7% of Vietnamese living in Vietnam. I am not counting Philippines because like USA they are mix of a lot different nations. So is this only solely because they are an island nation? Or is it like Magin said - stronger national unity inside nation itself? |
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