DannyinJapan who is there...

yes, it is.
Except I have had much more negative experiences than he did.
At one point, I was telling my boss to stand up so I could knock out his teeth or apologize to my wife for yelling at her to shut up. (in front of me)
The low level bureacrats and public school administration people I have met here have just been sub-human.
That's the nicest word I could come up with.

Mister Miyagi doesnt live here.....
 
"Uh-huh. If you ever try that again, I will give you the biggest kancho in the history of Japan," I say. "General Tojo will feel it 60 years ago, and call his planes back before they get to Pearl Harbor. Got it?"

I hope that I'm not the only one who's laughing hysterically while reading these. What a way to start the day. Good link.
 
Satori said:
"Uh-huh. If you ever try that again, I will give you the biggest kancho in the history of Japan," I say. "General Tojo will feel it 60 years ago, and call his planes back before they get to Pearl Harbor. Got it?"

I hope that I'm not the only one who's laughing hysterically while reading these. What a way to start the day. Good link.
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That one had me rolling too:) I've really enjoyed reading this. I'm fascinated with Japn in much the same way a person is fascinated with Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory. It's a really neat, shiny place, but just under the surface is something quite surreal. Not bad, just more alien than you would have ever guessed.

Jake
 
When I feel mixed up crazy I'll come here and recalibrate. I'm OK. It's actually an insane world.





munk
 
Satori said:
"Uh-huh. If you ever try that again, I will give you the biggest kancho in the history of Japan," I say. "General Tojo will feel it 60 years ago, and call his planes back before they get to Pearl Harbor. Got it?"

I hope that I'm not the only one who's laughing hysterically while reading these. What a way to start the day. Good link.
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From DIJ's earlier comments I'm surprised that they knew what Pearl Harbor was/is.
 
45-70 said:
From DIJ's earlier comments I'm surprised that they knew what Pearl Harbor was/is.
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A few days ago there were high tensions in Beijing, big public demonstrations with riot police, because the Japanese came out with new textbooks which downplay the happenings in Asia last century. It sounds as if there is even stress in Chinese/Japanese international relations because of it. Many of the Chinese have not forgotton the occupation and seem to resent that part of history being glossed over or rewritten.
 
If you heard some of my earlier criticisms/complaints, then you will not have any questions about whats happening in China right now.
You KNOW whats going on and why...
The Japanese just live in this little dreamworld, dont they...
 
Yeah, that's turning into quite the debacle. The Chinese people and government are really pissed (but I think the gov. is more pissed about territorial rights in some oil-rich islands) and the Japanese are mad that the Chinese riot police didn't stop the mobs from attacking their consulate and Japanese cars in China.

But the Chinese think that Japan's idea of moving on from WWII seems to be to forget it happened. Along with the attrocities.

Pretty dayumned crazy.

Nam
 
Here's a 2.1M PowerPoint file on the demonstrations in Beijing. http://aolisi.net/Documents/ChineseAreAngry.ppt I can leave it up for a little while until it starts eating too much bandwidth.

Hey, Danny, did you know the Chinese are putting out a lot of Wushu disks in anticipation of the 2008 Olympics. I got several and Red Flower is buying a number of them in Beijing where they're cheaper. They're in Mandarin but you can still watch the movement. A lot of westerners say the martial arts were destroyed in China during the cultural revolution but it's not true. It's hard to eradicate a culture.
 
Sorry guys. Wushu is a generic term for Chinese martial arts. They're on DVD's. Indeed, they are more pleasant than I imagine a kancho to be.

By the way, Danny, have you ever experienced a kancho? If so, you owe us the story.

Then there's the octopus, which experience apparently sent the author of the essays in search of a special type of physician. He won't say just what the octopus is. Perhaps a research project for the edification of the forum, Danny?
 
I figured it might be something like that... Id like to see them. The roots of Budo passed through China. the movement might have a different flavor, but in the heart of it, you can see it is the same.
 
DIJ, I have heard the Japanese name for Koi (ornamental pond fish) is something like nisha-goi (jeweled somethings) but that we have Americanized "goi" into "koi," which does not mean a fish but something else entirley in Japanese.

Would you comment on this?

Thanks
 
There's alot to answer.

From DIJ's earlier comments I'm surprised that they knew what Pearl Harbor was/is.
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Indeed, many do not. The Japanese have this way of pretending that, no matter what actually happened, THEY were the good guys. Honestly, when you talk to the average 20 or 30 something Japanese person about WW2, they dont seem to know anything about it, except for some strange reason, The United States dropped atomic bombs on two cities.



have you ever experienced a kancho?
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Yes, indeedly doodly. When I first got here I was working at elementary schools. Little boys, ages 6 to 1o would walk up behind me a stick their little homo fingers up my butt. I had seen the Japanese teachers ignore this behavior, but I did not. The first time it happened I started yelling "NO! NO!"
The second time it happened I hauled the little bastard down to the principals office and yelled at the principal.
(I wouldnt ordinarily yell at a school principal, but angry english seemsed to be more easily understood than normal english for some reason)

I loved my little first grade students, they were very cute and shiny, (the girls, anyway) but the boys' homosexual proclivities were unusual and unwanted. Little boys spooning and fondling each others genitals in class is just not what I wanted to see when I left home...

the octopus
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I never heard of that one, but sometimes the kids did like to stick their fingers up your ball sack and into your abdomen as hard as they could.
The little girl that did that to me was all of 9 years old, but even with me livid and screaming she didnt seem to get upset.
Make no mistake, sado masochism and cruelty are de rigeur over here. It starts early and the teachers dont do anything about it.
Almost every month some kid gets basically raped by his teammates for poor performance in a game or something like that. They dont put that in the news though, do they? (At one school I was at, they held down a boy and pushed an iron rod into his rectum - 12 year old boys did this. Not reform school misfits, normal elementary school kids)

koi vs goi
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When the K sound is preceded by a vowel, it may be softened to a G sound.
The same goes for T and D, H and B, etc...

as far as I know, koi and goi are the same, but goi is part of another word.
Nishagoi.
 
Oh Bruise, I wish!
They have so much backwards here.
When kids are bad, they ignore it and they dont kick kids out of class and send them to the principals office.
I said why not?
They said well, every child is guaranteed an education by the constitution.
I said thats why we kick the bad kids out of class.
They way they have it now, NOBODY gets an education.
 
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