The nail that sticks out…
I teach a writing class, for which I have the students create blogs. I have the same group of students as in the first semester. There’s one student who showed up for a few classes, but then stopped....
View ArticleJapan’s food statistics
A friend’s shared Google Reader feed alerted me to this video created for the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF). It contains some interesting statistics, and begs some...
View ArticleJapanese version of “The Office” and other Japan news
Thanks to Japan Probe, I discovered that the British comedy series The Office had a Japanese inspiration. Like The Office itself, people seem to either love it or not find it funny at all. And speaking...
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Stand up! Stand up, for the Emperor!
Image via Wikipedia I used to feel sorry for these people, and I do feel a lingering sympathy, but not much and it’s ebbing away quickly. Why are these people surprised? What were they expecting? The...
View ArticleYakuza eye cleanup profits | The Japan Times Online
The government and law enforcement authorities appear to be fighting an uphill battle to prevent gangsters and other “antisocial” groups from cashing in on disposing of huge amounts of debris generated...
View ArticleSpooked consumers snapping up cheap Geiger counters | The Japan Times Online
Astonishing. A society which has been trained to obey orders, to undertake nothing on one’s own initiative without consulting superiors and peers/fellow group or community members, is taking matters...
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Japanese smile
I teach a cross-cultural communication class in English/Japanese to Japanese college students, and I wanted to give my students an example of “the inscrutable Oriental”, or an example of how ways to...
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