If anyone has ever wondered the secret to my alluring scent, “Mooooooo!”
Cow Beauty Soap (ミルク成分配合 [with a combination of milk ingredients])
Note the highly effective branding: nothing says fresh and clean like a dairy cow.
Milk seems to be a big selling point here in Japan, at least judging from the increasing number of milkfed bags I see [...]
Posts under ‘Japanese’
A beauty secret
Disproportionate Japanese
Today, coming home on the Tsukuba Express, I noticed a sign for the emergency door release.
Reading this sign, I was struck by the disporportionate amount of Japanese relative to English.
So, what does the sign say?
The English is straightforward: “Emergency use only / By pulling the handle the door can be opened manually.”
The Japanese however is [...]
Best Clock Ever
Uniglo, a Japanese clothing store, has this strange clock up on their website. Pretty girls doing odd dancing in somewhat stylish and affordable clothes with a handy clock. What’s not to like?
Stimulus
Here is an interesting article about economic stimulus efforts in Japan. Much of the spending has been for “bridges to nowhere” — projects which increase the national debt, but have relatively little economic value after the construction is complete.
My favorite (well…actually least favorite…) examples of wasteful construction in Japan are tetrapods, the eye sores [...]
Sleep
Last week, I finished reading “Sleep” by Murakami in Japanese. It definitely gave me a nice sense of accomplishment to read an actual work of literature in Japanese, as opposed to a comic book or the artificial Japanese found in textbooks. There were a lot of words I had to look up, but by and [...]
Elderly Criminals in Japan
Watch out, Sneaky and Ranma! Crime by the elderly in Japan is increasing! And since 20% of the population is over 65 in Japan, the pool of criminals is huge! Guard you wallets! They are everywhere!
Of course, maybe it isn’t so bad if elderly people are swiping food and medicine…it’s probably much more efficient than [...]
Learning Japanese, another perspective
Its hard to believe that I have officially been studying Japanese now for just a little over 11 years now. I’m not fluent but I’m very happy at the progress I’ve made and continue to make everyday. Japanese is certainly a challenge, but I’ve always found the challenge to not be as nearly as difficult [...]
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