Your relationship with Japan
- Thread starter Maciamo
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I am close with a few people who are from Japan, and who have travelled to Japan. I want to go there someday. My best friend and my cousin both returned from Japan this summer. My best friend stayed with her sister-in-law's Japanese parents. (Her sister-in-law was born in Japan.) While my friend remains South American, she loves Asian culture. She wants to go back to Japan and take me with her! I am excited!
acquiredtarget
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- 27 Sep 2004
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Like some of the others, haven't gone yet, but I will, goa is for next year.
Jungle Boy
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- 1 Oct 2004
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Maciamo said:
Ontario, Canada (the jungle to be more specific). No, unfortunatly not
It is my dream in life to move to Japan. I think about it everyday. This is one time my stubborness will probably come in handy. I know I will make it to Japan one day, or die trying.
Japan is a fascinating country with a lot to offer. As an engineer, the push for innovation and new technology, the research and the opportunities are very attractive. Japan is also really interesting from a cultural perspective, a place different to the West.
I've heard mixed reports about Japanese attitudes to foreigners, but if they can drum the courage to visit my home town (Binalong, rural New South Wales, pop. 300) then perhaps downtown Tokyo could handle a lanky Australian.
PS Given the hordes of japanese coming to australia, they should maybe sponsor me to immigrate to Nippon. I mean you have to redress the balance somehow
(just kidding....
I've heard mixed reports about Japanese attitudes to foreigners, but if they can drum the courage to visit my home town (Binalong, rural New South Wales, pop. 300) then perhaps downtown Tokyo could handle a lanky Australian.
PS Given the hordes of japanese coming to australia, they should maybe sponsor me to immigrate to Nippon. I mean you have to redress the balance somehow
(just kidding....
Japanimaniac
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- 6 Oct 2004
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Alas, I have not yet made it there...but I'd like to at least visit. I wouldn't be able to live there anytime soon. Still waaay too much to learn ^.^"
lexico
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- 22 Dec 2004
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Hello everyone, my first post here.
My relationship to Japan? Remote, for now.
I've passed through twice, once through Yokohama Port, and then Narita, long time ago.
I had a Japanese-American classmate once, doing Manchu. And then there was this Cherry Blossom Festival in San Francisco I attended. And an exchange student stayed over just this year.
But that's about it.
Perhaps I'll visit Japan once I have a working knowledge of the language.
I would hate to impose on my host for even the most basic needs, communication.
But most of all, I'd like to have a definite plan before I go there.
Historical sites, museums, libraries, and bookstores are high on my priority list.
I also wonder where I might be able to pick up old, out-of-print books on Chinese turtle shell inscriptions. Japanese scholarship is supposedly superb in this field, as in many others.
My relationship to Japan? Remote, for now.
I've passed through twice, once through Yokohama Port, and then Narita, long time ago.
I had a Japanese-American classmate once, doing Manchu. And then there was this Cherry Blossom Festival in San Francisco I attended. And an exchange student stayed over just this year.
But that's about it.
Perhaps I'll visit Japan once I have a working knowledge of the language.
I would hate to impose on my host for even the most basic needs, communication.
But most of all, I'd like to have a definite plan before I go there.
Historical sites, museums, libraries, and bookstores are high on my priority list.
I also wonder where I might be able to pick up old, out-of-print books on Chinese turtle shell inscriptions. Japanese scholarship is supposedly superb in this field, as in many others.
THeJeuneTurC
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- 22 Dec 2004
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I have not been to Japan yet, but intend to.I like Japanese and Asian people very much, you are to sympatic especially Asian girls are too attractive for me.Every year there are alot of tourists coming from Japan to Turkey, I talked to them alot of times in Turkey.
In the future i m thinking about to visit or to live in Japan.
In the future i m thinking about to visit or to live in Japan.
jkami
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- 4 Jan 2005
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about 8 years. most of them fun and challenging...but i must admit there have been some extremely stressful times as well when i felt like quitting and taking the nearest escape hatch out of the country...usually during major miscommunication with my bosses/co-workers at work.
Shooter452
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- 5 Jan 2005
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I spent more than twenty years in the USMC and was stationed on Okinawa with the 3d Marine Division many, many times--including when it was ruled by the US. It is a lovely prefecture and has the second best SCUBA diving in the Pacific (except for the many dangerous sea creatures, it could arguably be the best location to dive in the world). Driving there is vexing at times (right side of the road, right side of the car, crazy skoshie-cab drivers) but I wished that I had owned my Subaru STi while I was there. Woulda been more fun.
I am sometimes of two minds about the Japanese culturally, but I had many dear friends in the region NW of Naha (Kitamae/Futenma). It saddens me that I will likely never see them again. Yoshio Hirakawa being one dear friend, I wish him well in particular.
My time over on mainland Japan is too brief to comment, but Okinawa became like a home away from home. While I never learned more than a few phrases in the local language, nearly everyone spoke passing English there so it was not a major problem for me.
As a retired LEO, I can tell you the JP's were not to be trifled with!
I am sometimes of two minds about the Japanese culturally, but I had many dear friends in the region NW of Naha (Kitamae/Futenma). It saddens me that I will likely never see them again. Yoshio Hirakawa being one dear friend, I wish him well in particular.
My time over on mainland Japan is too brief to comment, but Okinawa became like a home away from home. While I never learned more than a few phrases in the local language, nearly everyone spoke passing English there so it was not a major problem for me.
As a retired LEO, I can tell you the JP's were not to be trifled with!
Shooter452
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- 5 Jan 2005
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ax said:
Get in touch with Brooker. He is an ex-patriot working in Japan. He might be able to help you stay.
Best of luck.
Dura lex, sed lex
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- 19 Jan 2005
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Greetings everyone. A little intro for my first post:
My relationship with Japan goes back a long way. Although I am probably considered an "old man" by some of you here, I still feel like I am in my 20's.
I spent over 16 years in Japan from Feb. 1973-Aug 1988. Originally went over at age 18 with the US Army and was stationed at Camp Zama. I took an in country discharge in Dec. 1977 to attend Sophia University, in Tokyo in 1978.
I Graduated in 1981 and started my own English school, out of my home, in Yokohama, and sold it in Aug 1988 to return to the US after real estate and land prices soared beyond reasonable. I met a wonderful Japanese woman in 1981 and we were married in 1988. Still happily married today!
I speak, read and write Japanese fairly fluently. Although it is not as good as it used to be I still can basically understand a newspaper and hold an intelligent conversation.
I still return to Japan, which I consider my home, at least once a year and sometimes twice. I made many friends there and visit with them often. Some of us have been friends for over 30 years now!
I eventually will "retire" there in the near future and live out the remainder of my life there playing Pachinko to my hearts content.
My relationship with Japan goes back a long way. Although I am probably considered an "old man" by some of you here, I still feel like I am in my 20's.
I spent over 16 years in Japan from Feb. 1973-Aug 1988. Originally went over at age 18 with the US Army and was stationed at Camp Zama. I took an in country discharge in Dec. 1977 to attend Sophia University, in Tokyo in 1978.
I Graduated in 1981 and started my own English school, out of my home, in Yokohama, and sold it in Aug 1988 to return to the US after real estate and land prices soared beyond reasonable. I met a wonderful Japanese woman in 1981 and we were married in 1988. Still happily married today!
I speak, read and write Japanese fairly fluently. Although it is not as good as it used to be I still can basically understand a newspaper and hold an intelligent conversation.
I still return to Japan, which I consider my home, at least once a year and sometimes twice. I made many friends there and visit with them often. Some of us have been friends for over 30 years now!
I eventually will "retire" there in the near future and live out the remainder of my life there playing Pachinko to my hearts content.
