Living in Japan

Do you know the way it is in Japan? There are many aspects in life you don't find in the news paper or on TV. If you want to know how 100 million people in the Far East think, feel, and live their life, here is the place.


Life in Japan

Today, living in an industrialized country is almost the same wherever you go. Many people work in the office, in the factory, in the shop, in the car, and not so many work in the field. Many work nine to five with one hour or two overtime, while some work overnight or in their shift. You go to a supermarket or a shopping mall for grocery, cook in your kitchen, and sometimes eat out. Salesmen and Bankers will wear suits, and waiters and factory workers will wear uniforms, while they all wear T-shirts at home.
It makes no difference in the US or here in Japan. We all like to have a good time, and hate politics. We have TVs, microwave ovens, refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, and so on. We eat Big Mac, Nabisco, and other many junk foods. You will never know whether you are in the States or in Japan when you stay in a hotel room, looking down over a big city.

But still there are many differences. They are not those sushi and geisha things. You may heard of tea ceremony, kimono, tofu, and zen. I'm not talking about them. You may also heard of those high-tech machines and gadgets, Honda, Nintendo, and animation films. Those are the things I am not familiar with.

What I'm talking about is many aspects in between. For instance, you will never know about Radio-Exercise, aired every morning, which everyone knows as they were taught in elementary school, unless you were born and raised in Japan. Or you will never imagine the strangeness about community unless you attend a meeting at Jichikai, unauthorized local authority.

I will talk about small bits of life in Japan on this Blog. They will never appear on the international news, and never seen to the eyes of travelers passing by. I hope these information will help you understand the people outside of US, and help you to think about the better future of this small planet.

Sunday, July 24, 2005

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