Bushido Craze in Japan

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Just read this recent news article;

"Bushido craze makes samurai style the talk of the town";

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/culture/waiwai/news/20080208p2g00m0dm007000c.html


Well if what the article says is true, i think its really cool that Japanese youth are readily embracing their cultural heritage and traditions and taking an interest in them like the ways of the samurai and adapting good parts of such things into their modern lives etc .

 

[Hiroyuki Nagashima]

Just read this recent news article;
"Bushido craze makes samurai style the talk of the town";
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/culture/waiwai/news/20080208p2g00m0dm007000c.html
Well if what the article says is true, i think its really cool that Japanese youth are readily embracing their cultural heritage and traditions and taking an interest in them like the ways of the samurai and adapting good parts of such things into their modern lives etc .

Perhaps,
A similarity of them and a samurai,"Not working."

 

[epigene]

"Bushido craze makes samurai style the talk of the town"?!?

Who?? Where??
I don't see anyone talking like that in my part of Tokyo!!

Maybe a fad among the "socially inactive" youths like Nagashima-san suggests?

Edit: Seriously, talking like a feudal samurai (the real samurai-speak) would be something similar to trying to live your life speaking Shakespearean English (not exactly very good comparison, but I think you get what I mean). Speaking like that will certainly make you look eccentric at best. If there are people speaking that way, it certainly is for fun or within a small segment of people who share something in common (age, work/nonworking, interests, etc.). The article is misleading in making you think that a large portion of the people in Tokyo have started talking in that manner.

 

[Kyoto Returnee]

Definitely better than the old "Deep Sea" water craze!

 

[doinkies]

"Bushido craze makes samurai style the talk of the town"?!?
Who?? Where??
I don't see anyone talking like that in my part of Tokyo!!
Maybe a fad among the "socially inactive" youths like Nagashima-san suggests?
Edit: Seriously, talking like a feudal samurai (the real samurai-speak) would be something similar to trying to live your life speaking Shakespearean English (not exactly very good comparison, but I think you get what I mean). Speaking like that will certainly make you look eccentric at best. If there are people speaking that way, it certainly is for fun or within a small segment of people who share something in common (age, work/nonworking, interests, etc.). The article is misleading in making you think that a large portion of the people in Tokyo have started talking in that manner.

I think so too.
A good tip: DON'T TRUST WAIWAI! They always report on odd things and make it seem like everyone's into them.

 

[Hiroyuki Nagashima]

Samurai words are popular conversion sites, and access increases.
http://sankei.jp.msn.com/economy/it/080216/its0802162038001-n1.htm

It seems to be popularity to use words of a samurai for conversation every day.
News explains that it is influence of a sengoki-jidai game and a samurai movie.

It is so-called words play.

 

[Haruspex]

I smell Gintama lol.

 

[Hiroyuki Nagashima]

I smell Gintama lol.

Probably it is so.

 

[Dogen Z]

About a year or so ago, I saw a movie starring Shingo of SMAP about a ninja who was somehow transported to modern Japan. He spoke normal Japanese but ended every sentence with "de gozarimus". It was pretty funny.

 

[pipokun]

Loo or Lou Oshiba is a crappy comedian using his funny Japanese.
Just try the Lou language translation engine.
ルー語変換

A while ago, speaking a dialect was a sort of boom here.

Hinkaku, dignity, books, such as the dignity of the nation/woman/parent, sold well, but you can also find some craze for something like "British (European) good table manners for serebu, the celebrity" or "Wonderful British way of life".