I answer anything＾＾
Question. In anime there is often an attack (used mostly by ninjas and samurai) where guy A with a blade will run past and hit guy B so fast you don't see any attack. Then they will both just stand there back to back for a few seconds. Then the cut wound suddenly appears on guy B and he drops dead blah blah.
Is there an actual name for this type of attack?
>>301
I tried to find out a proper name of what you asked. But, sorry, I couldn't
find any.
I think, at least I can tell you that:
It is only a part of many techniques of anime and it doesn't have certain
independent name.
And also I can tell you that:
There are not styles, techniques or maneuvers like that for real sword fight
of samurais.
This is one of traditional dramaturgy of Japanese play or movies.
From Edo era, pausing an act to emphasise the scene is called "見得を切る mi-e wo kiru = emitting presence" in play of kabuki.
This type of method has been called "外連 Keren = straying from orthodox" or
"外連味 keren-mi = taste of Keren".
"外連 Keren" means over-decoration and spoiling realistic description to emphasise the situation.
(Please remember that kabuki meant "avant-garde play" or "punkish play".
Yes, each and every classical arts were once avant-garde in past.)
And today, pausing the scene like what you described is very popular
in costume (historical) dramas on TV.
In Japan, especially among people who is ignorant about real sword fight,
it is widely believed that the fight of sword master ends by only first
attack.
So usually this technique is used to emphasize the result of duel of
2 samurais.(Isn't this same as gun fight in western movies?)
And lately, as you wrote, this technique might be applied to one-sided
attack like assassination by a ninja.
Also anime have inherited this style of description of fight.
That's what you saw on a anime film, I think.
Hello, I have a question concerning working/living in Japan.
Do you think an American faces a lot of racism in Japan?
Do you think a German is welcome in Japan?
Also I have a personal question for you, what do you think of Arudou Debito? (http://www.debito.org/nihongo.html/)
Thank you for the detailed reply. I guess it's just a general story telling technique for raising suspense. I thought it was a glorified version of some actual martial arts attack.
>>303
それは日本人に訊くより実際に日本で生活しているアメリカ人・ドイツ人に
訊いた方が良いんじゃないか。
自分としては特に差別している意識はない。
増えたとはいえ、それほど身近に居るものでもないから物珍しいってのはあるけどね。
>Debito
久米宏の発言に対する抗議については過剰反応としか思えない。
俺が同じ事言われても逆に褒め言葉ととらえて喜ぶと思う。
というわけでDebitoはそういう過剰反応を好んでするタイプの人間に見えたので
それ以下の記事は読む気がしません。
> Do you think an American faces a lot of racism in Japan?
It depends on who you are, and how you accept rules of Japanese society.
It doesn't matter where you are from nor what your nationality is.
I don't mean to say there's no racism in Japan.
And I also think that each and every group has the right to have
appropriate xenophobia to keep their peace and prosperity.
I wish you understand that racism in Japan have come from not prejudice
but real experience of being troubled by some "不良外人 Furyo Gaijin = bad
/ rude foreigners".
So, firstly, we will be very cautious about you when we will meet each other
because possibly our common protocol (communication) will not work with you.
And then, everything is going to depend on your attitude.
If you do some act that I put below, you will face so terrible racism.
-Joking to strangers
I have a experience to have gotten my eyes shot by a laser beam pointer by
foreign strangers. Maybe they supposed me to laugh at them.
But it was going to work absolutely not.
And I also saw a foreigners scribbling on the blouse of another student from behind in a driving school. She was crying.
-Being arrogant.
Some of them seem to have come to Japan with mission to enlighten native
people. I am not surprised that the nickname of Arudou Debito is
"Hokkaido Crusader" (Hokkaido is the place he lives).
Especially you have to carefully avoid to try to teach your native language
unless someone asked you to do it.
-Being lustful.
This is the biggest problem.
Like other countries might be. There are so many young female
(sometimes male) wannabes in Japan who dresses like Beyonce or
Avril Lavigne. They might think they could be someone if being with
foreigners.
So if you are male and like M.C. Hammer (JA Rule? 50cent? EMINEM? I don't
know much), you can get many girl friends at same time very easily.
And then, welcome to the notorious GAIJIN world. No one else would be close
to you except some idiot brats.
> Do you think a German is welcome in Japan?
It's quite simple. If you are welcome in Germany, you will be
welcome in Japan too.
According to my experience, 60 to 70% of foreigners in Japan are losers
who ran away from society of their own country. And they seem never to be
able to manage his(her) life in their mother nation.
Therefore, this question is not to be asked to Japanese, but yourself.
And if you are respectable enough, I guarantee that you will never face to
racism without cause in Japan.
> Also I have a personal question for you, what do you think of
> Arudou Debito? (http://www.debito.org/nihongo.html/)
It does need 10,000 or more words to explain it. Because there have been
very very very very very long and complicated stories about this phenomenon.
I'm ready to write about it. But are you okay with it? No?
Okay, I wish you just take note that:
In Japan there is long tradition of "Anti-Japanism-public-opinion-business"
by left-winged anarchists. Mr. Arudou is nothing more than a player/actor
who is trying to become a celebrity admired in this industry.
Plrease refer to
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9C%89%E9%81%93%E5%87%BA%E4%BA%BA
and
http://www.japanreview.net/letters.htm
"Arudou and his family should not have been excluded from the onsen in Otaru, but I suspect I am not alone in objecting to the way this unpleasant, but essentially trivial incident has been parlayed into a career opportunity"
That is very interesting. I agree with what you say, if a foreigner came over to America and started trying to act like Flava Flav or something, and overused words like 'dude', 'sick' and any other typical teenage language, I'd probably take it that he is mocking us. I also find it interesting that you say that around 60-70% of foreigners are outcasts from society, which is probably true. Since Japan is a flip side of America, they probably think they can go there and immerse their selves into the new culture. What is funny about this is that because it is so different, they won't probably have a clue how to act. I believe that learning the language and writing system is a good start, but to know the culture is a whole other thing. The same goes for any country.
I am not OK with Japanese people looking down at foreigners just because they are foreign though. They should at least give them a chance first, and if they are annoying or disrespectful, then I believe it is OK to criticize them (Assuming they understand you). This is very informal information that you said, thank you.
>>306 Is there some way to learn common communication protocol for foreigner who never was in Japan? I just don't want to look like someone without manners when I go in there?
>Is there some way to learn common communication protocol for foreigner who never was in Japan?
For a trip, don't worry about it. Just use common sense.
>According to my experience, 60 to 70% of foreigners in Japan are losers who ran away from society of their own country.
同意するわ。
ﾃﾞﾋﾞﾄに関しては、在日外人のブログをよく読むけど、ほとんどがﾃﾞﾋﾞﾄに好意的だね。
本人と応援してるやつは、アメリカの黒人差別と同様な差別に日本で自分たちが
合っていると思い、自分たちは公民権運動に匹敵するような活動をやってると
思い込んでるんじゃないかと思うときがあるよ。
一番おかしな所は、ﾃﾞﾋﾞﾄは反日本社会的な態度をとりながら日本国籍を取得して、
応援してる外人は英語講師などで腰かけ帯在しいて、日本語もまともに喋れず、
永住する気もないのに、「日本人」ﾃﾞﾋﾞﾄを捌け口に使い一人前に扱うように要求する。
国籍がないのに権利をよこせと騒ぐ某在日半島人と変わらんよ。
それだけで不当な外人差別に値するとか言う気はないが、本人たちのやってることは、
例えばアメリカとかでは通用せんよ。国籍もなく英語も喋れない人間は、まずマトモに
扱ってはもらえないよ。（旅行者を除いては）
それを、日本に来てダブルスタンダード的な態度をとるということは、やっぱりarrongantと
言われても仕方ないし、「日本土人」を自分たちのダブスタでenlightenしてるつもりなんだろうなぁ。
日本語で失礼。
>例えばアメリカとかでは通用せんよ
おれアメリカ人だが、これはまったく同意する。
Michael MooreやPat Buchananとかみたいなお笑い芸人のようなヤツだよな。まず相手にされない。
私は「sometimes you can see deer but we only saw ducks」と言いたいです。「時々シカを見えますけど私たちはアヒルを見ました。」と言うと思います。「only」がありません。「アヒルXX見ました」と言う事がいいですか。XXは何じょしですか。
You'll easily find "だけ" or "のみ" for "only" in Japnese with dictionaly.
By the way, is it "we only saw ducks" or "we saw only ducks" ?
If it's first one, it must be
"私たちはアヒルを見ただけです".
If it's second one, it must be
"私たちはアヒルだけを見ました".
Anyway I think you had to post this message on Translation request thread.
This question is not about language, but about Japanese sayings. What does it mean to say someone "turns to the right" too often?
do people in japan hate people who act japanese (NOT OTAKU!)
if i want to have holiday in japan, where should i go?
英単語ぐぐったらここにたどりついた。
記念ぬるぽ
>>314
This is the one of possible answers. But I can not have any idea
for your question other than this.
Maybe, "turning to the right" is direct translation of
"右傾化:turning into political attitude of right-wing".
In Japan, because of the effort of some groups, the word
"right-wing" has been labeled fanatic nationalism and aggressive militarism (, not conservatism).
This had been very standard way of thinking among Japanese
people because of the experience of the WW2.
But nowadays, most of Japanese have realized that these pacific/liberal activists have so many foreign agents hidden behind. Their goal is incapacitate Japan in various field.
In spite of this situation, "turning to the right" is still available in limited space of political opinion including some
papers.
Therefore, if you see someone who use "turns to the right" too
often, that person might be resisting the recent trend of people
who try to make everything clear and find out the better
political stance.
And possibly the person still believes that some ignorant people
could be brainwashed with the magic word "turns to the right"
the symbol of evil.
In other words, he/she is using the phrase "(most of young people
tend to )turn to the right" as "getting worse" to criticize
modern trend of society.
In a manga I saw the phrase 「右に曲がります」 on a sign taped to a character's back as a trick.
Also, in the same manga (translated to English) I saw the phrase "When she turns around, she turns to the right too often" used as an insult.
Does this sound familiar?
>>319
I can't tell you clearly because it depends on the category of the manga you saw.
Usually mangas and animes tend not to commit on one certain political stance,
because whatever they assert, opposite side would complain to the artists and
the publishers so severely.
Especially complaining from some left-winged pacifist and ecologist is
actually more terror than complaining, like saturated phone/fax call and e-mails,
sending carcass, or arson.
So whenever they touch political things, most of manga artists and publishers choose
relatively safe colors: modest/moderate liberalism. And they carefully remove other
colors from their work. Because they have to focus on entertaining readers and avoid
other troubles.
But there are some exceptions.
-
Some manga artist declare that they are critics using manga as the way of expression,
like Yoshinori Kobayashi, Sharin Yamano.
Once they established their position as political activist, careless attack causes
scandal. So they can get freedom of expression and security.
-
Some left-winged groups frequently have a very closed political rally.
In the stage of the gathering, sometimes they exhibit very childish/rude symbolic revue to
insult their enemies. Like a sketch by a man with a mask of PM. Koizumi and costume of ape.
Like this, as long as they think those are for their eyes only, their activities of
publishing turn into rudeness infinitely.
That's why I wrote "it depends on the category of the manga" at first.
The style on the manga you saw is very familiar in mangas of the liberalists,
by the liberalists, for the liberalists in Japan.
(You might think I'm insulting them. But what else can I tell you if it's only truth?
Rudeness, unlawful maneuver, violence and self justification is characteristic of liberalists
in Japan
I even saw a porn video of two people doing it with masks of Japanese emperor and empress.)
>>315
It depends on how Japanese people take their purpose of
acting Japanese, insult or respect.
And I think I have to point "The Uncanny Valley".
http://www.androidscience.com/theuncannyvalley/proceedings2005/uncannyvalley.html
This can be applied to foreigners acting Japanese too.
In other words, if your act is too much similar to Japanese,
we suspect your hidden agenda.
I know it's only a myth, but Japanese people have believed that we
are residents of peripheral region of the world and we are so
unique that nobody can learn how to act same as us.
So "外タレ=外人タレント=Gaijinn talent= (TV-)talent who came
from abroad and became an entertainer in Japan" always speaks
unskilled Japanese to be loved by audience.
moshi2!
yoroshiku onegaishimasu!
i really loves Japan...daisuki desu... ^_^
what i should do if i want to live & work in Jap. once i'm graduating from my university?
>_<
>>324
あなたの予想とは反対に、外国人に対して本音を話す場合もあります。
普段の日本人は、建前で他の日本人と話しますが、外国人に対しては、
guardが弱くなるからです。
日本は他の国より（例：アメリカ）『安全な国』だと思ってる。
一人きりの女は夜に心配しなずに帰られるの？
I've heard Japan is a 'safe country'. (Even though there seems to be more violence every year, but that's what the world is like.) Do you think Japan is still 'safe'? Can a woman go home alone at night without worrying for her safety?
なんで欧米の国々が捕鯨に反対するのか、それは日本の鯨食、魚を食べる文化が
世界に広まれば牛などの家畜を生産している国が売れなくなり困るからです。
それで偽善の慈善団体グリーンピースやシーシェパードなどを使い洗脳宣伝活動を
行わせ、さらには大企業などに脅しをかけ表での活動資金を調達しているのです。
裏ではもちろん潤沢な資金が特定の所から流れています。日本人が発言をすれば
必ず変わります。これらの偽善慈善団体に抗議のメールを出しましょう。英語でなくとも
ＯＫです。
>>327
I'll answer in English if you don't mind. I'm not in the mood to try and write an extensive post on whaling in Japanese atm...
Anyway, I'm Australian not American/European but I think I can still answer your question to an extent.
Firstly there is still a lot of concern about whales going extinct. Kind of a carry over from anti-whalling campaigns in previous decades. One of the many things that Japan is famous for in the West is the amount of overfishing that has occured in Japanese waters. A lot of people just don't trust Japanese whalers to only hunt whales in a sustainable manner. In Australias case also there is concern that over whalling or even just any whaling at all will affect Australian businesses which sell whale watching tours. Some people are also opposed to it simply because they view harpooning whales as barbaric and cruel. This point of view is of course a bit hypocritical but a fair number of people still espouse it. Finally there are conservation groups such as greenpeace .etc. which are of course going to be opposed to whaling. Being opposed to things like whaling is pretty much part of the definition of being a conservation group I think. Naturally they view conservation of wildlife as being much more important than the culunary culture of any nation be it Japan, America or wherever.
Personally I'm not apposed to limited whaling. In Australia you can buy Kangaroo meat and those Kangaroos are not raised on a farm they are wild Kangaroos which have been shot! I don't see any reason why LIMITED whaling shouldn't occur be able to occur.
Anyway hope that clears things up a bit.....
>One of the many things that Japan is famous for in the West is the amount of overfishing that has occured in Japanese waters. A lot of people just don't trust Japanese whalers to only hunt whales in a sustainable manner.
Give me an example. How many years do you think the Japanese have been fishing (not just whales) in the water-surrounded land where the culture of eating the meat of domesticated animals was imported in the 19th century? Famous for overfishing? What a stupid people aren't they? Their food supply depends on fishing and they overfish!
BTW, you know those countries who are opposing now, USA for example, hunted whales just to use their oil, don't you?
オーストラリア人はアボリジニの食文化を奪い、ラクダを開拓入植するときにつれて来て要らなくなったらすぐ放し生態系を乱した。そのほかにも
野に放った動物は数知れない。生態系を乱しておいてお前らオーストラリア人はその上、関係の無い日本人の墓を荒らした。お前らは肉の食いすぎで太りすぎて腸の口を細く閉める手術をしなければ自分でやせる事も出ないほど家畜を殺して食している。そのお隣のニュージーランド人も大して変わらん、彼らもまた入植したときに大量にあった森林を破壊し、家畜を放牧するために牧草地に変えてしまった。そんな君たちに鯨うんぬんと日本人を非難できる立場には無いよ。
なぜ、鯨の数が激減したか知っているか？ お前ら欧米人が傲慢にもランプの燃料にするためだけに鯨を狩りその他の部分は廃棄、そのために鯨は激減した。まるでアメリカのバッファロー狩りのようにな毛皮のためだけにバッファローも狩られ屍骸は放置された。お前ら欧米人の主張している事は昔の宣教師が北米や南米で行った布教活動と同じ文化の押し付けだ。お前らは傲慢すぎる。
インターネットの普及で報道によって隠されたり婉曲な表現をされたりされがちだった
中国、韓国の悪い部分が（根拠の無い物も含めて）広く敷延することで
俗に言うインターネット世代はそれらの国々に対しての嫌悪感を隠さない場合もあるようです。
ただし、罪を憎んで人を憎まずという美念があるように、多くの日本人は自国を含む全ての国家の悪癖や良くない仕組みに対して怒りを持っているだけのことで、隣国と言っていいだろう中韓に対してはその頻度が多いというだけに過ぎません。（今まで隠されていた側面があったことに対する反動もあるでしょう）
同様に良い場所を見つければ当然どこの国家であろうと賞賛の念を持ち得ます。（おそらくあなたと同じに）
あれ？ID:Heaven日本語出来るんだねｗ
Honestly, I'm more worried about the salmon and tuna than the whales. It's not like people eat whales everyday. It's a specialty item that's pretty expensive.
On the other hand, you better enjoy your wild-caught salmon while you can, because they aren't going to last for much longer at this rate.
age
sage
鯨は増えすぎると、魚が減ってしまいます。
鯨には天敵がいないからです。
今、世界規模の日本食ブームで魚の需要が増えています。
なので、今、日本食はピンチの状況です。
日本人は、鯨を戦後の貧しさからよく食べるようになったようです。
アメリカのGHQが鯨の肉を日本側に推奨したという話も聞きました。
アメリカのGHQが認めた日本の固有の領土には、北方領土、尖閣諸島、竹島が含まれている。
でもロシアと韓国は、不正に軍事占領しています。
日本の隣国は、日本が軍事行動を出来ないことをいいことに軍事支配を続けています。
ロシア、韓国、北朝鮮、中国は、欧米＆日本とは違い、情報等が鎖国もしくは準鎖国国家です。
彼らの考えは国際常識から逸脱しています。
日本は、辛いです。
What is Japanese man thinking about German woman?
Is Japanese man liking?
Hey Japan, i have a question. Whats with all the China/Korea hate?
I'm not trying to be rude or anything, just curious.
>>340
Hey American, i have a question. Whats with all the nigger hate?
I'm not trying to be rude or anything, just curious.
Do you think >>1 is really Japanese?
We should put him to the test.
僕馬鹿です。
助けてください！
日本語大変でね？
"What's with all the nigger hate" probably isn't the best way to not sound rude.
Also, because most of them are indigent, lazy, unintelligible, unintelligent, and not really trying to fix any of the above.
what do japanese people consider the best watch? CASIO?
(・∀・) TROLLS! TROLLOLOLOLOLLOLSS!!
I swear to gods, they breed somewhere in the case-dust and find their way into the ethernet cables and onto the net.
How embarassing.
saa te raishuu no Sazaesan wa?
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／ ＼ ｀ ⌒´ ﾉ
／ ─ ─ ＼ .}
／ （●） （●） ＼ }
| （__人__） | ノ.ヽ
/ ∩ノ ⊃ ／∩ノ ⊃| |
( ＼ ／ ＿ノ | |／ ＿ノ | |
.＼ “ ／＿＿| | ／＿＿| |
＼ ／＿＿＿ ／／＿＿＿ ／
ここにえろげがありますか。
はい、あります。
では、ください。
おｋ
つまらない。
このスレどうなったんだぁ・・・
>>326
我々（日本人）にとってはこれが普通なので、逆になぜ一人で帰るのに心配しなければいけないのかが
よくわからないのです。いちおう犯罪統計だと年間の１０万人あたりの事件発生率は日本が1500件
アメリカが5000件。殺人事件の発生率が１０万人あたり日本が１件、アメリカが９件となっています。
そういう意味ではより安全ではありますが、まあ、やはり犯罪は起こってはいる。ということで。
一人で家に帰る道で、男が後ろについて来たら怖いのは同じですし、
男が家と帰るのと同じ方向に女性が歩いてると気まずいのも日米で別に変わらないと思います。
Because this is common, it isn't understood about well for the >>326 us (Japanese) whether you must be afraid though it comes back conversely and alone why.
When they are statistics on いちおう crime, as for the matter incidence rate per 100000 people of the year, 1500 cases Americas are 5000 cases 【 Japan 】.
Japan is 1 case per 100000 people, and America is 9 cases 【 the incidence rate of the murder case 】.
Though it is safer and it is here, well, still a crime happens in such meaning.With a thing.
It thinks that it is awkward to be separately unchanged to be terrible in Japan and America when a woman is walking in the same direction which is the same as a, man's, coming back with the house if a man follows backward on the way which it comes back alone from to the house, too.
(? Translation soft realy work?)
A word of advice: translation software from Japanese to English (or from English to Japanese) is truly horrid. For example, write a sentence that you would normally write without any slang, translate it into English using the program, then translate the new English translation back to Japanese.
When we (native-speaking English people) attempt to translate in the same manner, we get a very bad translation. Translation software in general is useless. You should always do it with your own knowledge of the language.
If someone else would be kind enough to translate what you wrote so that it is easier to understand, it would be greatly appreciated. Unfortunately, I can not speak or write Japanese, so I am unable to do this myself.
Hi, I have a question about the Kimigayo national anthem. Is it just the country's national anthem, or is it a symbol of imperial/militarist past? How do you think about it? How do you think most Japanese feel about it? Would you rather have another anthem? Or do you not care?
>>357
Yawn
>>357
Greetings, Comrade.
>>356
Because it's natural in Japan, we don't understand why you need to worry when you return to home alone.
According to criminal statistics, the incidence rate of criminals in Japan is 1500 per a hundred-thousands citizens while it's 5000 in the US. The rate of muder in Japan is 1 per 100,000 while it's 9 in the US. The data shows it's safer in Japan, but there are criminals after all.
I think it's not different in both Japan and America that you fell uneasy when a stranger is behind you on your way home. Also it must be same that you feel awkward when a strange woman is walking toward the same direction as your way home.
# What do you think about my translation?
>>357
It's nothing related to militarism. Actually it's controversial that Kimigayo is officially national anthem or not.
Many thanks. That was very helpful. Y(^-^)o
Yeah, that was my pitiful attempt at ASCII art. I really need to learn how to do that stuff.
せたみんなさん僕の名前はジョシュアです。アメリカ人だから日本語を少し話ます
よ。でもこのさきに僕は日本に英語教えたいんです。どうべんきょしたらいいで
すか？所で、今高校生です来年5月卒業生。宜しくお願いします
Thanks! I guess it's not the song so much as that people are forced to sing it at school and such.
and the first rape place of east Asia.
Why is the reason why the Japanese dislikes South Korea understood?
The crime number of foreign countries in Japan is taught.
It is the first place South Korea, and the second place China.
To the favor of man who is educating unabashedly telling a lie like this on
an anti-day amusing.
Most of the heinous crime of Japan is Korean residents in Japan.
Do you want to know the reason to settle in Japan?
South Korea rules by the aristocrat and is a country of the myriad
year dependancy. The woman in Britain analyzed South Korea.
It was a country where no straight educational system.
A straight layer in South Korea runs away to Canada or the United
States. Even if Japanese is spoken, it is a special treatment by the South Korea census register. I want you to return to the mother country early. It is not interested in South Korea in Japan.
However, they are persistent in an economic aim. There is a people who pretends the Japanese by the South Korea census register. It is amazed.
Example China and South Korea.
It is not interested for people.
reason,it is need to work in my life every day.
There is no thought leave.
People in east Asia that comes to do crime. Get the hard work to money!
Japan must not obtain money badly and famously indefinitely.
It is opposite to Beijing Olympics.
Human rights is not defended in Tibet.
It is cheesed.
>>365
Tibet is cheesed?
You cannot just say that it is the South Koreans causing trouble. Some of them may commit crimes, but I am sure there are Japanese people who do the same. It sounds too much like you are trying to place the blame on immigrants. (-_-)
But >>365 is right. Crime is a petty way to earn money. I have no respect for those who do.
Enough of this talk, let's go cheese Tibet.
>>356
Translation software is hardly useless. It's good for getting the gist of a text in a foreign language. Very useful when surfing foreign sites. But as a means of translating what you wrote it's a poor communication aid. Where you use it also matters. On the net a machine translated text is more acceptable on a web page than in a bbs or e-mail where people tend to get irritated by poor language.
Personally I use Google Translator for quick and dirty translations of large texts and the Rikaichan Firefox addon for short texts. Rikaichan is pretty good for beginners. It throws up suggested translations for individual words and displays pronounciation in Hiragana and sometimes Katakana. The end result is that you usually get a better grasp of the text than with full text translators.
I need to understand more about pronunciation of age in japanese. please help. i heard that they pronounce age in the multiple of ten is different compare to normal counting of multiple of ten. care to explain? if possible please help in writing in hiragana cause i'm learning japanese on my own.
I suppose what you refer is this numbering system, but it's rarely-used since it's a literary language based on ancient Japanse.
20 はたち
30 みそじ
40 よそじ
50 いそじ
60 むそじ
70 ななそじ
80 やそじ
90 ここのそじ
100 もも
In my home country, this is Nara of japan, american student
1.stealing stuff everything
2.lyingto policeman
3.spit to face when talking, mouth is bad smell
4.dont having money, many american student, hole in cloths and dirty pants, old shoes
5.raping jap gal because jap gal say american boy no thanks, very ugly and fat
6.very smell of food eating by american
7.very smell body, no bath long time, sometime 10 days?
american=monkey same same
>>374 はハゲ、もしくは薄毛である。
>>374
Troll much?
That honestly has to be the most ridiculous description of Americans I've ever heard.
I am a Chinese schoolboy,wanna go to Japan for my college,u guys hav any suggestions 4 me?
>>377
Just keep your distance from political argument and other sensitive issues.
And try to keep clean for you body, room, and all other stuff.
I think it's better enough.
外国に住む気でもありますか？
Where did A Japanese go?
フサけん じゃねーぞ こっら！
PENIS
A question.
Suicide in Japan is prevalent. What is it about modern Japanese culture that drives so many (primarily youth) to suicide?
One of the main reasons why Japanese youth commits suicide is the lack of freedom (especially for women) and strict culture, unlike the Europeans and the Americans who culture has alot of freedom to think, to do, to said, just as long as you know the limit, Japanese culture mainly tells you how to think, what to do and what to say. as much as Japan itself is unique when it comes to culture, you really don't see much freedom involved in. But lately I realised that Japan is becoming a bit more American like, with the way they think, especially in Tokyo.
that's one reason, they are others like school, religion, parents and alot of other reasons,
It's kind of sad that they die so young
a japanese- if you got more information on the question Suicide in Japan, til me, i may be wrong in some of the things i said, thx you
>>384
blah freedom blah unique blah culture.
Typical view of Japan influenced by western media who just feed you with garbage.
Speaking of freedom and media, why does American TV stations ceonsor so many Japanese anime programs?
>>386
Because they suck.
i think american have the right to censor japanese anime, because some of these animations are sick and influencing kid to do stupids things for example Suicide, onless you understand kids and why americans, europeans not want some these animations to influencing there kids, you really should not be talking,
386-you sound like 16 to 20 teenage bitching for animation, when you go outside your house for once in your life, get girlfriend, have a baby, if that possible, big IF. look at how easy a kid can influenced, then you'll unndersand but if you don't understand let say you retarded
one more thing if you want japanese animation go to japan, not everything on tv is made for you retard,
Rather than censoring the anime, why not just keep the kid from watching it? Parents can keep the stuff they don't want their kids to see without butchering up the original work.
I'd rather not have a given show air on US television than have it hacked up and given a bad name for westerners unfamiliar with it. Like i hear they really ruined Dragon Ball and Sailor Moon back in the day.
yea it's ture they ruined dragonball z, but to be also trueful dbz, sailor moon was loved in the europe and america, it was very big.
kids are becaming smarter special at that age of 10, south park which is not made for kids, it's loved by kids more then adults, now you have to ask yourself how do these kids know south park, as more of us know japan has no limit how far animation and horror movies go, they do scary the shit out of people, but also influence sick people to do things, i also hear that somepeople use animation and horror movie as influence as a way to die, i personaly understand and agree with the censor, only because of the kids, >>389 because kids can not be watch over 24/7, i believe japan should start censor samethings,
kids only do what they see and learn, i not think american want to see there kids fight to death, like dbz,
i believe this play a small part in Suicide rate in japan, but i could wrong
Do they really let Japanese students eat and socialize on the school rooftops? That seems dangerous :-/
>>386
Very true. I recommend to examine carefully if the media is fairly analyzing not only the target culture but also their own culture, and vice versa. "Japanese is wierd" "Islam is incomprehensible" or those kinds of articles are basically nothing more than biased scandals. The worst is a THOUGHT which is based on IMAGINATIONS and has NO FACT or EVIDENCE or academic analysis, like some posts above.
There is a huge misunderstanding concerned with this suiside topic. It's true that the suiside rate in Japan is 2nd highest in the world, but in fact, the suiside rate of TEENAGERS is higher IN THE US THAN JAPAN. I lost the information sources, but I believe it's somewhere on the net.
The reason is simple: youth accessibility to guns. High Japanese suiside rate depends on its high rate of mid-agers. I suppose the reason is the economic downturn or medical problem, though I havn't confirmed it yet.
I won't negate the limitation of freedom has some relationship with suiside, but I doubt the condition is very different from that in the US. I don't agree with "(especially for women)" part though, because the suiside rate of boys is higher than that of girls in Japan. And needless to say, the suiside rate of middle age men is much higher than that of women.
>>391
Not really. Some schools high-fenced rooftop but most schools locks the door to rooftop. However nothing is impossible for high schoolers who have too much time on their hands. You can see lots of chaos there; drinking and smoking delinquents, cluster-fucking upperclassmen, lesbian girls, love affair of school council president and vice-president, promiscuous teacher and student, and all that. The most shocking experience in my life happened when I witnessed 30 years old female school library clerk was having sex with my classmate. What is worse is that they married after graduation. It sucks. Really sucks. I hate highschool rooftop more than anything.
>It's true that the suiside rate in Japan is 2nd highest in the world
Not true, the second highest is Belarus:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate
Japan is number 8 in this list, although it's almost certainly innacurate, as there is very little data for countries in the middle east and Africa, many of which appear at the bottom. Some records elsewhere may also be incomplete or obfuscated for political/social/religious reasons.
For instance, the data from China comes from very select areas.
In conclusion, the only thing the list is good for is determining which countries are best at reporting suicide as opposed to other causes of death.
I've only seen this in Potemayo anime and a piece of anime artwork but what is the meaning of people riding on giant eggplants that have wooden legs? Where did this originate?
何でアニメキャラが大きいな茄子を乗っているの？ 馬見たいに乗っている...
In Japan, your dreams on New Year's day are like a fortune.
Mt. Fuji, a hawk, and an eggplant are the three luckiest things you can see.
You can also see an example of this in Azumanga Daioh
I think what you said was a overkill. Its true that some of the animes are sick, but so are some of the TV shows in the US. Anime cannot simply be categorized altogether into one single group.
What people need to understand is that anime is simply a visual media presented in cel-shaded animations, subjects in the anime have no direct relationship with it.
Its like watching TV, there are nice programs and at the same time there are some sick and twisted programs. Like as any other television shows, different animes are made to appeal various age/social groups. The conception of "anime is for (insert age/social group here)" seem so naive to me.
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