Live In Japan

Contributed by Jonathon Marshall from fishingfury.com

Japan, as an island nation, is surrounded by sea: to her east, the vast Pacific Ocean, the west, the Japan Sea and to the north, the Sea of Okhotsk. Correspondingly, Japan is blessed with a great variety of fish and marine life, large quantities of which end up on the nation’s dinner tables. Japan is also fortunate in that her islands span several climate zones. The southern Ryūkyū Islands, including Okinawa, are tropical, and are home to many varieties of reef-dwelling fish and invertebrates; the northern island of Hokkaidō, on the other hand, has a temperate climate similar to a northern European country and is famous for trout, salmon and cod fishing. In between, one is entertained by a multitude of different climes and corresponding aquatic habitats, each with their local specialty produce: the warm, calm Seto Inland Sea provides nori seaweed, giant mudskippers can be caught on the mudflats of Ariake, cool mountain streams burst with rainbow trout in Nagano, the waters about Izu Peninsular are home to sardines and squid that are cured in saltwater and sun-dried by the locals right on the seaside or the famous deep-sea crabs of the Japan Sea, taken and brought to table so rapidly that they can be eaten raw.

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Japan is such a beautiful country. Also I love their writing sytle with all of thoose, curls and lines.
Excellent! Just what we’ve been looking for.

In the previous lesson (maybe you forgot if you did it 5 years ago when I made it), we learned all about Self Introductions, or “jiko shokai”. I hope that in this time you have had an opportunity to practice and become a professional. If after five years you still can’t introduce yourself, maybe you had better give up and become a hermit like me, talking to no one. Just kidding.

So let’s say that by now you can introduce yourself. Great! OK, so you have a friend, no; you have two friends. And now you want to introduce your friends to each other so that you can take a break and let them carry on some of the conversations instead of relying on your amazing Japanese language skills (they ARE amazing now, right?). After all, you can’t live your entire life alone, talking to your pet or pets. Even if that is the case and you have more than one pet, eventually one is going to leave this world before you (under natural circumstances unless you have a very unique pet like my dog who is going to live for 75 years (not dog years, but years). Well, if you lose one, you will want to get another one, right? So you get another pet. What do you do? You have to introduce this new pet to your old pet so that they can become acquainted. Right? Right!
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I love this language I hope to learn it I already learned..well not at all but I know english :d as well… I learned in 3 years…so i hope to learn japanese in 3 years or so.. ’cause I think that’s such a fabolous language =D I love it!! it’s wonderful to learn languages =D very useful too
To read newspapers, I am told people should learn a minimum of 1400 kanji characters. For most daily things, around 1000 should be fine, but one’s always kinda lost. I lost count of the ones I know, but I still cannot read without a dictionary at hand.

In European countries, you are in much closer proximity with people of a different language. In order to get along in life, it’s very helpful to learn a different language (correct? This is just what I’ve seen, I don’t know from experience). But America is pretty big. You could go your whole life and not learn a different language and you could get along just fine. So many people only know one language… big deal.
living in Finland and a typical day for me involves teaching Spanish, singing in anything from Arabic to Japanese and chatting with my international friends coming from almost every continent on the planet. I actually prefer to chat with foreigners because it gives me more chances to practice languages and there is so much to learn about history, culture, traditions, foods, etc. My point being, sterotyping is just plain inaccurate and ignorate.

i like how the robber with the knife’s hankercheif is tied around his nose…really hides his identity!
learn english using the rote method by turning each sentence into a small musical phrase; while you’re doing this incorporate some aerobic excercise in time with the rhythm of the lyric. oh, any would-be muggers out there, hide your identity by wearing bandanners over nose so you dont give your victim your cold - so considerate
“Speak slowly now!” “[japanese japanese– JAPAPAPAPAPANESE!!!] -er- I mean.. I was robbeded by twoooooo men!”
Learn English, it could save your life when you’re being robbed — unusual premise. The gym thing is wierd too.

That’s like the coolest obstacle course ever! But I felt really bad for that last girl hitting the button right when it hit 0.
looks like “ninja warrior” womens leahue , ninja warrior airs on g4tv and the g4 website
japanese girls are crazy
The little blonde lady who wins everything moves like a real-life anime character. Awesome!!
last girl is Yuko Mizuno, japanese idol
so much better than the femakl contestants on Takeshi’s castle that we get here in the Uk, making it look like japanese girls are weak, but these girls are tough, awesome video, great quality.
That thing where they jump on a trampoline up onto some beam like three times looks very difficult And that one girl jumped through it in like 4 seconds, it was great.

This is from “Grand Sumo: The Living Sport and Tradition” by Lora Sharnoff. I’ve made some small changes to shorten the text, but nothing which alters the content. - D. Riley

Origins and ancient sumo
The earliest written mention of sumo is found in the Kojiki (Record of Ancient Matters), a book from the year 712, which is the oldest extant example of Japanese writing. The Kojiki relates a legend about how possession of the Japanese islands was determined by a sumo match. According to the book, about 2,500 years ago, the gods Takemikazuchi and Takeminakata grappled on the shores of Izumo along the Japan Sea coast in what is now Shimane-ken, until the latter finally lost. Thus control of the archipelago was ceded to the Japanese people led by Takemikazuchi, who is said to have established the imperial family from which the present emperor traces his ancestry.
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Although Western-style dress has been popular in Japan since the late 19th century among men, and since the 1920’s among women, the traditional kimono has by no means disappeared. Its form and use have been refined to play an appropriate role in Japan’s modern life.
The kimono assumed its present form during the Edo period (1603-1867). designers have tried to modernize its style over the last decade or two because the Japanese have found that in everyday life, whether in office or factory, shopping or teaching, the kimono is not as practical as and more cumbersome than Western-style dress, which is less restrictive in movement and easier to take care of.

Synthetic fibers have replaced silk for kimonos in an attempt to overcome laundry problems. designers have introduced new fabric designs which can be worn regardless of the age of the wearer. formerly, tradition dictated certain patterns and color to be worn according to the season and one’s age. For example, a young woman would wear red and pink with floral designs in spring, while in summer, her kimono would suggest water. In autumn, she would wear floral designs or chrysanthemums and in winter, especially at holiday time, designs based on pine trees, plum blossoms and bamboo, Japanese goodluck symbols.
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Japanese girl of high school student.
This is an animated cartoon of Japan. It is very interesting because it is an animated cartoon to understand the current state of the high school girl in Japan well. Please look by all means.

How japanese study english.

The Sapporo Snow Festival (札幌雪祭 Sapporo Yuki-matsuri) is a famous yearly festival held in Sapporo, Japan over seven days in February. In 2007 it will be held from February 6 to February 12.

It is one of the largest winter events in Japan. Teams from outside Japan come to participate, and the festival is thought to be an opportunity for promoting international relations. About two million people come to see the enormous beautiful snow statues on display in Odori Park in central Sapporo, which is the main site of the festival.

The subject of the statues vary and often feature an event or famous person from the past year. For example, in 2004 there were statues of Hideki Matsui, the famous baseball player who plays for the New York Yankees. There are also long ice chutes on which people are encouraged to slide.

The Snow Festival began in 1950 when six local high school students built six snow statues in Odori Park. In 1955, the Japan Self-Defense Forces from the nearby Makomanai base joined in and built the first massive snow sculpture, for which the Snow Festival has now become famous. In years when the accumulated snowfall is low, the Self-Defense Force, for whom participation is considered a training exercise, brings in snow from outside Sapporo. The Makomanai base, one of three main sites, hosts the largest sculptures, with an emphasis on providing play space for children. The third site is the night life district of Susukino, which hosts the ice carvings.