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Join Date: Apr 2007
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Everything is a valid reason to go (I'm 24 BTW). If that's what interests you then you should go. Plenty of people go on wine tasting tours of Southern France, just as many go to Italy to sample food and wine. But probably the best comparison I can give you is millions of people flock to Louvre in Paris to see Mona Lisa. How is that any different as to what you want to do?
BUT You've gone all that way to Japan don't get so focused on anime, there's other things that you'll never experience anywhere else. I wouldn't mind taking a tour if there is one to see how anime is made but Take a trip to the hot springs, see the cherry blossoms, ride the bullet train, see the geishas, and kabuki plays (typical touristy thing). Do the stuff you can't do anywhere else. That'd be my priorirty. I mean its not like its impossible to get stuff imported from Japan and you can pretty much watch anime anywhere you feel like. |
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Join Date: Dec 2005
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Well I think most of us got interested in Japan because of anime/manga/games. Atleast I got. But I agree to only go down there to check out manga/anime is a little silly.
Through anime I started to like japanese old architecture, culture and food. I would like to go to Japan for several reasons. Eating good sushi, shopping, visiting a temple, see cherry blossoms(only if its spring), who wouldnt want to see a IRL schoolgirl("zomg they do exist outside of anime" I would go like), why not check out the nighlife in tokyo and Japan is also famous for their technology then why not go check it out. Hell I wouldnt mind going to Japan to just experience real sushi, I want to know the difference between this sushi where I live and there. |
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: St. Louis MO
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I would love to go to Japan, but not just because of manga/anime. If the culture intrests you why not visit? Personally I have found japanese culture very cool, not just anime/manga. But to blindly decide to go to japan because you like anime, would be rather stupid.
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There are many wonderful things about Japan and its people... but I can fully understand why you want out. I would not want my stay to be permanent. |
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日本語を食べません!
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: San Francisco
Age: 35
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![]() If I didn't get a job in my career field straight out of college, I would have applied for the JET program and spent a year in Japan teaching English. Not too long... |
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Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
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Besides when it gets annoying one can always go back to familiar territory. Japan has the unique situation of being both accessible to western understanding yet alien in so many other ways. In my case there is also heritage conflation -- my wife is japanese-american and, ergo, my two sons have japanese ancestry. We also are quite interested in my ancestry (irish/scottish/scandinavian) and have visiting Denmark, Scotland, and Norway on our list of things-to-do.
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: St. Louis MO
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I would only want to go on a trip for like a month or so to japan. I still love western culture, and I don't know if I would want to leave that behind.
In general I just want to travel, learn many languages and absorb a lot of cultures. Life is so boring if you stay in one place your whole life. |
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Join Date: Apr 2007
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Why? Put it this way. If you read the same book every day for 24 years you'd get pretty bored too. I guess we go there or anywhere to experience change. I guess you're still quite young, try an exchange program or a working holiday, ypu'll really experience life in your desired country (I assume you're Japanese, and I know that there are exchange programmes to Australia, the UK and the US) but after a while on the road and travelling, there's no place like home.
The things you don't like about Japan, we probably have similar gripes with where we live as well. But I went on 1 year working holiday to the UK and I loved every minute of it but I always loved coming home too. I really recommend it if you feel like you're stuck in a rut. |
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