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General / Work in Japan / Re: Stepping on a Japanese flag
on: 11/18/09 at 15:53:10 |
| Started by deltaplus - Ex Member | Post by 宥貴 |
Quote from Tenno Heika on 11/17/09 at 09:01:25:This is just one of several posts by a spammer who follows the same pattern every time. They're either from China or Korea and they post disgusting, racist or just plain stupid stuff. And every time I just delete it.
This photo itself is harmless enough but illustrates how stupid and callous some people can be. Raising kids in an atmosphere of poisonous attitudes is nothing less than child abuse. He was really discriminating the Japanese people. If you have something against Japan then I wonder why they subscribe on a forum that's about JAPAN.  Foolishness of people these days they say and do something without thinking. |
  
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General / Japan in General / Re: Tatsuya Ichihashi: Japanese or Korean?
on: 11/17/09 at 09:19:12 |
| Started by Buriburizaemon | Post by Tenno Heika |
Good, though old, JT article about perceptions and misunderstandings between Japan and the west. And as Buriburizaemon says, it says nothing about Ichihashi actually being Korean.
The place on the Japanese Web where many, if not most, rumors and scandal spread is 2ch, called "ni-chaneru" in Japanese. I rarely go in there, but my image of it is a hugely popular and basically un-policed bulletin board that's a hotbed for all sorts of rumors and occasionally some truthful revelations.
At the end of the day, it is largely irrelevant whether Ichihashi is ethnically Korean or not. Lindsay Hawker is dead and, assuming Ichihashi is guilty, he will pay the price. But if he is in fact Zainichi, that hardly absolves Japan of all guilt in the case, does it? Because this country refuses to accept people who have been here for generations, many because of the fact that Japan colonized their country, who speak only Japanese, who know no home other than Japan, but are still labeled as outsiders. That kind of racism and alienation is no doubt as responsible as anything for the anti-social or criminal behavior of some of those people. |
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General / Japan Rants / Mourning the loss of traditional values Japan
on: 11/15/09 at 05:24:43 |
| Started by doctorhugo - Ex Member | Post by Bob |
Being a relic of days gone by it is predictable that in modern day Japan I find the same disgust and disappointment that I do in modern day America.
My love of Japan began in the post Korean War years of the 50s and lasted unti my departure in the early 60s. Upon arrival I was greatly impressed by traditional values and respect not to mention such lost personal values as honesty, integrity and fidelity to ones' beliefs. principles and also friends. The era of the 60s saw Japan first starting to mature into a broad-based economic society. Unfortunately, from a social context she tended to mimic western (read American) ways and adopted the worst about us. Materialism and an adoration of things of transitional valuation and nothing of permanence. It is almost fitting as a contemnporary statement that just today I observe on the news the visit of Shameful Leader of the USA to Japan. It makes me want to wretch! We have sent the worst among us to visit you.
I used to visit regularly somewhat rural izakaiya and always observing traditional Japanese custom made a subdued entrance and seated myself with quiet politeness. I was, at the time, totally self-taught in rudinenatry Japanese and made my best attempts at communicating always in ONLY Japanese no matter how dififcult it got. I immersed myself in the culture as I used to describe and force fed myself Japanese. The only way to fly! I did this in about 3 different places and in all had a very predictable and similar experience. Upon seeing a gaijin who attempted to communicate in their tongue and gave respect to their traditions, acceptance was almost instantaneous. Responding in somwhat awkward Japanese to Japanese natives trying to impress by speaking broken English became commonplace and a very humorous barrier breaker if there ever was one.
I was of the enka era and a devotee of people the likes of Murata Hideo, Minami Haruo, Shimakura Chiyoko, Misora Hibari, Mihashi Michiya and so many others. I committed Murata-san no O-Sho monogatari to memory and had a raucous time performing it at those sake houses I mentioned. The haunting strains of...Fukeiba tobuyona shogi-no koma-ni... echo in my memory. In short order everyone would join in and a great time was had by all. I became totally afflicted with many of the classic Japanese TV fare, particularly Densuke and his family show, performers like Hana Hajime and The Krazy Kats with Ueki Hitoshi and 'Smiley' Ohara and his swing band and the various sumo basho during the year ( a Sadanoyama fan). After some practice I became somewhat competent at performing the not-so-easy rakugo also. Upon future visits on the appointed night that they expected me, I would find regular customers had brought friends/relatives to show off their atarashii Beikoku-no tomodachi  Fond memories of a Japan that I fear no longer exists. Uchi-no nyobo-mo onaji kimochi desu.
Furui-no Nihon...Doko-ni ikimashita-ka?[/color] |
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