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Japanese Culture and Language
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Explore Japanese culture and the Japanese language from a slightly eclectic, off-beat perspective. Experience both high and low culture like an insider.
- Added on: Nov 25th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Mr. R-San
- Listed in: Culture Pop Culture
- Tags: japan japanese food japanese culture japanese language japanese pop culture japanese society
Recent Posts
Memo: English Teachers in Japan
Here is my cultural memo to those folks teaching English in Japan...I know, I know, you are really hip to the history and culture of Japan, and you don't need some guy named Mr. Kato to tell you what to do, but just please listen up for a second. Unt...
Japan in the Summer
How is the weather in Japan? Hot and humid I imagine. I, Mr. Kato (now referring to myself in the third person), am really happy that I'm away from the humidity and the cicadas of summertime Japan.How's everybody doing as we enter the dog days of Aug...
Japanese Government to Send English Teachers Home
In a dramatic move yesterday, Japanese secretary of Labor Kaz Saito said that the Japanese government will pay to send English teachers of Ango-Saxon descent back to their country of origin. The initiative comes as Japan is paying unemployed Brazilia...
Spring Snow in Japan's Ishikawa Prefecture
Here is the evidence of a late-spring snowstorm about ten days ago in the village of Kashima in the Noto Peninsula area of Japan's Ishikawa prefecture. Needless to say there were no Sakura (cherry blossom) sightings that day....
Japanese Pay to Send Brazilian Immigrants Home
Of all the countries in the world, Japan is the last country that should be paying anyone to leave their soil. With a declining Japanese population and an increasingly insecure financial future, Japan should be finding a way to keep Brazilians and ot...
Japan's Communists on Piracy in Somalia
Japan has agreed to send navy ships to the coast of Somalia to help combat pirates who are attacking cargo ships. This is good. Japan needs to do more of this. If you are a first-world nation that benefits from international trade, you need to help k...
