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?
Posts under ‘Japanese’
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 [...]
象の消滅 – The Elephant Vanishes
When I went to the library on Sunday, Ranmafan had just posted about the Murakami novel that he was reading, and for years Naftali has highly recommended Murakami’s work. So at the library, I got a copy of The Elephant Vanishes in Japanese.
I’ve read maybe 6 or 7 pages of the story “眠り/ Sleep” so far. [...]
Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew!
A funny thing happened today at the post office. I went to mail a couple of Christmas packages to America when I noticed there was a tv crew there. Well after spending ten minutes mailing and talking in Japanese I go to leave. Well the tv crew had moved to a table in the front [...]
