Japan: The Strange Country
A Japanese student has made an infographic video about Japan. There is a version in Japanese. http://vimeo.com/9873910 And a version in English. http://vimeo.com/10305194 Related Articles: Animania 2011 Top 60 Popular Japanese Phrases of 2010 Teaching Osaka-Ben to Foreigners Blood Types A rush to Himeji before renovations Please support my blog by clicking this blog site [...]
Posted by Aidan under Culture, Culture - Japan | Permalink | 2 Comments »Solving Japan’s age-old problem
Japan is ageing faster than any other nation. By the end of this decade, there will be three pensioners for every child under 15 and before long, one in six people will be over 80. Its population will soon be falling by nearly a million people every year and doomsters predict that, some time in [...]
Posted by Aidan under Culture, Culture - Japan | Permalink | 2 Comments »Japanese Living in Australia
Sao Paulo, Honolulu, New York and Los Angeles have some of the largest Japanese communities outside of Japan. In the last ten years, although the number of Japanese visiting Australia has decreased, the number of Japanese choosing to stay in Australia has increased. Now Sydney is the 6th largest Japanese community outside of Japan and [...]
Posted by Aidan under Culture, Culture - Japan | Permalink | 2 Comments »Rice in Japan: You Are What You Eat
You are what you eat: Can a country as modern as Japan cling onto a culture as ancient as rice? IN EARLY autumn a pilgrimage of sorts takes place in Japan. People ride the bullet train from Tokyo, pass through a long tunnel in the mountains west of the capital and emerge in Niigata, one [...]
Posted by Aidan under Culture, Culture - Japan | Permalink | 2 Comments »Japanese Proverbs
Proverbs are difficult to translate into another language. There is a web site that has examples of Japanese proverbs and translates them in to English. Not all of the proverbs are commonly used, but some of them are funny. http://nihonshock.com/2009/10/japanese-proverbs-september-2009/ Related Articles: Acronyms & Tech Speak Most Hated Cliches Idiom Dictionary Collective Nouns All the [...]
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