maybe it's because i'm in a "punk" mood since this morning after watching "The Tomorrow Show: Punk & New Wave' trailer" on youtube but i found parts of article interesting . (not the parts that complain about meat and smoke, as it was noted, or not finishing soups or something.)
i lol'd at the assholish equation "the Japanese have distilled "social life" to a point where it is literally a part of work" = poor state of the economy/ low birth rate. keep on keeping society in check, punk rocker :-)
the screaming in circle thing was new to me. the way he puts it , it is sort of creepy.
also nu2me : screaming nonsense in a megaphone to give a certain overdrive ambiance in a store = lol'd.
"I once met a hardcore Japanese punk rock dude who brought up his own out-creeped-ness with the semantics of Japanese customary greetings completely independent of my input." would have liked to hear more from that guy.
... punk rawk!
― Sébastien, Thursday, 4 March 2010 21:42 (fourteen years ago) link
would have liked to hear more from that guy.
Would have liked to hear more from any of the Japanese people the Kotaku author dealt with to see what they really think of him!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 4 March 2010 21:48 (fourteen years ago) link
It's quite clear they thought he should smoke more and eat more bacon.
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 4 March 2010 22:01 (fourteen years ago) link
i can't believe tim rogers is still getting paid to write
― Nhex, Thursday, 4 March 2010 23:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Long been recognized that cultural norms are widely divergent between cultures. Another thing to carry one set of norms inside oneself and live inside a completely different set. Gives some insight into sociopaths, I suppose.
So fucking OTM
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Thursday, 4 March 2010 23:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Kind of like people who stay on messageboards they vehemently complain about day in day out...
― ABBAcab (Trayce), Thursday, 4 March 2010 23:44 (fourteen years ago) link
http://scarletjohanson.info/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/lost_in_translation.jpgilx is fucked up
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 4 March 2010 23:56 (fourteen years ago) link
lol:
Maybe you know the story about how Gran Turismo got started because Kazunori Yamauchi, on his first day in the Sony Computer Entertainment offices, wrote out a sample game design idea consisting only of the words "I want to drive my car on my television."
― noted schloar (dyao), Thursday, 4 March 2010 05:06 (18 hours ago) Bookmark
this is one of the funniest things i've ever read. i don't know why.
― max arrrrrgh, Friday, 5 March 2010 00:00 (fourteen years ago) link
http://singularityhub.com/2010/10/20/this-rocking-lead-singer-is-a-3d-hologram-video/
trippy vid
― dayo, Thursday, 21 October 2010 23:50 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhHo6CUq4-o
― Pot Leeedom (Leee), Saturday, 12 May 2012 22:54 (eleven years ago) link
At first I assumed it was male, but now I'm not so sure.
― Pot Leeedom (Leee), Saturday, 12 May 2012 23:08 (eleven years ago) link
http://achewood.com/index.php?date=03242005
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 12 May 2012 23:23 (eleven years ago) link
i always feel a little sad now when i read earlier, funnier achewood
― It was you. Miming to Tenacious D. (stevie), Saturday, 12 May 2012 23:26 (eleven years ago) link
Communicate with Shiri? Is this going to be in the next iPhone?
"Shiri, where is the nearest train station?"*left cheek twitches*
― StanM, Sunday, 13 May 2012 04:44 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2013/jun/14/eyeball-licking-fetish-japanese-teenagers-sick
― nostormo, Monday, 17 June 2013 19:45 (ten years ago) link
Tokyo FAP Wednesday who's in
― calstars, Friday, 15 August 2014 23:50 (nine years ago) link
me!wait i'm not in japan yet
― ∞, Friday, 15 August 2014 23:52 (nine years ago) link
No panty Shabu Shabu FTW
― calstars, Friday, 15 August 2014 23:52 (nine years ago) link
calstars u in japan?
― dylannn, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 11:03 (eight years ago) link
Sadly, no. I only go there to see the wife's family for a week at a time every year.
You?
― calstars, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 13:17 (eight years ago) link
in october, waiting for working visa approval. will live in atsugi city.
― dylannn, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 14:13 (eight years ago) link
― calstars, Wednesday, July 29, 2015 2:17 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this will be me soonish
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 18:30 (eight years ago) link
dylannn, i guess you'll be hitting up yokohama to keep yourself from getting bored?
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 18:31 (eight years ago) link
supposedly tokyo is easier to reach on odawara linehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odaky%C5%AB_Odawara_Linebut yokohama is reached on same line + transfer at machida
― dylannn, Thursday, 30 July 2015 04:44 (eight years ago) link
or roughly same time from hon-atsugi to shinjuku as hon-atsugi to yokohama
― dylannn, Thursday, 30 July 2015 04:46 (eight years ago) link
Good idea to study up on getting around ahead of time
― calstars, Thursday, 30 July 2015 05:23 (eight years ago) link
i dunno, hope so. before i moved to guangzhzou i thought i had carefully like researched it and knew what i needed to know about the city and getting around and then i basically started from scratch when i got there as i never had any idea where i was without baidu maps. but i managed a daily commute from the most distant suburb without much pain so i hope i can manage the same from kanagawa->shinjuku.
― dylannn, Thursday, 30 July 2015 08:15 (eight years ago) link
forgot if railway has english options for purchasing tickets.
regular trains within the city do, for sure. worst case, it'll be like matching up cards from the map up top to the bottom screen where you buy your fare
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 30 July 2015 18:44 (eight years ago) link
under the impression that: chinese literacy but will never figure out native readings of kanji + being able to read hiragana katakana + still developing c conversational japanese ... it'll be awkward but fine to get around
― dylannn, Thursday, 30 July 2015 23:39 (eight years ago) link
unlike my china experience though i have no particular fascination w or romantic vision? of the country and know maybe a bit about japan but not that much. i dunno.
― dylannn, Thursday, 30 July 2015 23:46 (eight years ago) link
kanji is such a bitch. you'll see romaji at train stations, but i'd probably carry with me the kanji of the stops i need with their equivalent romaji just in case. some of the train staff can guide you a bit if all else fails. just show them the kanji of the stop you need to go to and they should be able to point you to the right direction.
wouldn't hurt to learn stuff like hidari and migi. my girl taught me this silly mnemonic. "just think of H&M". hidari means left, migi means right.
now that i remember, when i took the osaka to tokyo shinkansen i saw no romaji for the most part
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Friday, 31 July 2015 00:32 (eight years ago) link
Yeah. Very limited romaji. Add in the truly labyrinthine maps hung on the wall above the ticket machines (bring your glasses if you wear them) and the throng of thousands of salary men and office ladies trying to get to work, and you've got one bewildering, overwhelming experience.
― calstars, Friday, 31 July 2015 04:03 (eight years ago) link
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-34581340
as my country voted for a more "hip" prime minister, i read this in the news today and think what the need is to involve fashion to attract supporters.
this is by no means a japan thing, but i've noticed it more in japan. there is a tendency to take on a western "style" of any type of art form, whether it's music, fashion, dance, or "attitude" and "fashionise" it -- i know that's not a word. they copy a style purely for its aesthetic reasons and on the rare occasion that they do delve into studying its meaning, they come up with the most vacuous and oversimplified things. a lot of it is due to their interpreting of individual western cultures as a huge, single oversimplified culture, and another is basing their opinions on hollywood/movie, advertising, etc., stereotypes that feed into their distorted view.
this happens with north americans' interpretation of japanese culture, as well, of course. but it seems like north americans are trying a little harder to break that barrier because we seem to favour open, blunt, honest discussions in classrooms and in open spaces readily. the japanese are surely adopting this stance but at a very slow rate. what makes this a little difficult is the whole tatemae/honne and an image-conscious society.
there are many things i love about japan, but this is not one of them. and in ways, it is contentious, because it's like arguing who the real punks were, where you have some that went against it as a fashion movement, and those who in 1977 were in the business of making punk a fashion "statement." it's tricky.
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 22 October 2015 17:34 (eight years ago) link
maybe i'm missing some key element or i'm misreading the protests don't seem vastly different in attempt at "attention to style, slick visual productions and media savvy" and attempt at a tidy overall aesthetic than umbrella movement protests in hong kong but compared to hong kong, japan has limited historical political turmoil and limited political engagement among young people... you end up with slick visual production and people milling around in shibuya while listening to records? again, maybe my lack of knowledge of contemporary japan is the issue but it just looks like a more low stakes version of the hk protests.
― dylannn, Friday, 23 October 2015 06:11 (eight years ago) link
flying to tokyo tomorrow btw
― dylannn, Friday, 23 October 2015 06:46 (eight years ago) link
nice! good luck and have fun, man! keep us posted.
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Friday, 23 October 2015 19:06 (eight years ago) link
i will, i will.i'd still like to know what you think of character or more the aesthetic of umbrella movement vs. recent japan student protests. maybe i should go to shibuya and have a look.
― dylannn, Friday, 23 October 2015 22:55 (eight years ago) link
food is good.
― dylannn, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 21:20 (eight years ago) link
http://imgur.com/O1UddgK.jpg
― dylannn, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 21:23 (eight years ago) link
that's where i live
Lovely! Where you at?
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 21:38 (eight years ago) link
kanagawa, suburbs, forty minutes from shibuya
― dylannn, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 22:02 (eight years ago) link
shinjuku i mean, on odakyu line
― dylannn, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 22:09 (eight years ago) link
Very nice What are you doing there?
― calstars, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 22:10 (eight years ago) link
― dylannn, Friday, October 23, 2015 11:55 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
just read this.
i didn't know what umbrella movement was but had a quick read on the web.
i don't know anything about hk. does it have a history of large political demonstrations?
from what i understand, japan doesn't usually have major political protests, and nothing big since i've been following their politics loosely in the last few years. after ww2, the anpo opposition movement was, i want to say, the largest demonstration.
there was a point after the protests where passiveness became a kind of hallmark of japanese "activism," which actually was a reaction to ww2, from what i've read. this shifted to an apolitical attitude and a kind of "it is what it is" stance. and only recently has activism been increasing.
if you want a reference point, i would compare it to those hippies at vancouver protests that don't even know the details of what's going on, they just shout back phrases and are there to hang out and dance, and that's all they think they have to do. it's more of a party where people are not aware of the details of the cause/movement they're supporting. i think this is how i interpreted what went on at the protest i linked to above. obviously this is definitely not unique to japan. but i think foreigners are calling for a more active role in politics over there, and it is slowly changing. i've watched interviews of passersby over there, and they do seem to be interested in changing their politics, but they're not doing much to challenge the status quo.
if you go to shibuya, it's just a massive, super busy fashion center. when i got there i kind of wanted to leave soon. in that regard, i guess the protesters are trying to "disrupt" or "inconvenience" people, but i don't know if this will win people over.
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Tuesday, 27 October 2015 23:59 (eight years ago) link
i will go to shibuya to have a look maybe -- the news is covering four things today: 1 car flipped over in nagoya, a building in hokkaido is tilting or sinking, u.s. ships floated past an artificial island claimed by china, protests against a u.s. military base in okinawa reclaiming land.
― dylannn, Thursday, 29 October 2015 03:29 (eight years ago) link
and i'm not really doing anything here. my girlfriend is working and i am accompanying her.
― dylannn, Thursday, 29 October 2015 03:48 (eight years ago) link
i'm going to get off at yoyogi walk around towards harajuku... end in shibuya. i'll see what i can see. any other tips, friends?
― dylannn, Friday, 30 October 2015 02:53 (eight years ago) link
the walk from yoyogi uehara station to yoyogi ... then yoyogi park is kind of adump
― dylannn, Friday, 30 October 2015 03:31 (eight years ago) link
A dump.
maybe this will finally cure them of fax machines
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Sunday, 26 April 2020 13:24 (four years ago) link
And hanko! Nice though they are.
― archangel's thunderpants (Matt #2), Sunday, 26 April 2020 17:23 (four years ago) link
https://newrepublic.com/article/160595/new-yorker-japan-rent-family-fabricated
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 17 December 2020 23:34 (three years ago) link
Thanks, good article
― calstars, Friday, 18 December 2020 01:21 (three years ago) link
decided to do a (long) thread on nazis in anime/manga lolmajor tw for nazi imagery, pedophilia, and antisemitism. pic.twitter.com/rhjaSTiBBT— ube bebe race reveal party (@VlVlISM) April 20, 2021
Some of this is pretty shocking. I've seen a lot of back and forth about what Attack On Titan is really doing but I don't know.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 24 April 2021 23:35 (three years ago) link
Thanks for linking
― calstars, Sunday, 25 April 2021 01:44 (three years ago) link
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/08/18/drink-alcohol-japan-urges-young-people/
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 August 2022 11:49 (one year ago) link
they should hire Viz as consultants for their national "drink more booze, kids" ad campaign
― calzino, Thursday, 18 August 2022 12:11 (one year ago) link
This is a bad idea
― calstars, Thursday, 18 August 2022 12:42 (one year ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/03/business/tiny-apartments-tokyo.htmlThe times really seems to have a handle on this theme
― calstars, Monday, 3 October 2022 11:38 (one year ago) link
i lived in a tiny apartment. the bed was in a loft accessed by a ladder. the loft ceiling was too low to make love in many positions, nothing more elevated than a modified froggy style. to avoid climbing down, it was best to begin and finish in the living room / dining room / everything room.
tokyo is affordable. you don't need to live like this. it is fun for a while.
― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Monday, 3 October 2022 14:37 (one year ago) link