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"It's not great. It's all about crazy game shows and Johnny's idol groups and Studio Ghibli and Pokemon and video games and electronics. And earthquakes. There was a huge one just last night up north. Lots of random killings seemingly on the rise, too,..." [
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"It is in Japan. Or at least it used to be. The gesture reminds me of Japanese period films and dramas, where it's often used by greedy merchant characters and such ("Shime shime" is the expression that often accompanies the gesture), so..." [
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3 months ago
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"I am so late to this thread. Nobody is probably reading it anymore, and what I'm going to write doesn't really answer the question, but here goes...
As mentioned many times above, the Japanese take their shoes off "because it is the custom...." [
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3 months ago
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The Man Who Could No Longer Fly
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3 months ago
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"English is technically my second language. But I grew up in the States, so my spoken English sounds completely American. I also have a BA in English Lit from a Canadian university, for what it's worth, which means that I can also write fairly well...." [
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4 months ago
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"Thanks for this post.
The thing about Kurosawa is that recently, terrible remakes of his works are being produced one after another. Remakes of Ikiru and High and Low were aired on TV last year, and a film version of Tsubaki Sanjuro was released..." [
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5 months ago
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"Maybe it's because I'm based in Japan where wearing surgical masks in public isn't uncommon at all (admittedly, I do it too, during hay fever season. It makes a huge difference), but I find it sort of strange that some people in this thread are..." [
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7 months ago
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"Linda Linda Linda - Japanese girls play punk rock for a high school talent show. Sweet, funny, Jarmuschian.
Hey! I translated the English subtitles for this! Yes, it's a fine movie, do see it!..." [
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8 months ago
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"but MetaTalk? Why?
After commenting that I'm a lurker, I seem to be blabbering away in this thread, but...
English is technically a second language for me, and I'm a Japanese person living in Japan IRL. I can speak and write English to some..." [
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9 months ago
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"I joined MetaFilter because of the green, but now I spend a lot of my time on the site lurking in MetaTalk. I rarely comment in the gray because I feel that most of the time, someone else has said what I want to say, only much more eloquently...." [
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9 months ago
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"As someone who was lucky enough to have been presented with a print from the man himself at the last meetup, I would like to say that woodblock100's prints are awesome and would make truly great gifts...." [
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9 months ago
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"Sorry, my link is broken. Japanese currency, see "History." Oh, and is this the cover? If so, it was a part of a series of childeren's books published from 1936.
Some info I found googling around based on the keywords..." [
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11 months ago
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"TheWhiteSkull is right, it's Chushingura. And junesix is right that it's probably a children's reader. Also, I think the first photo that you have there is actually the back cover (it's an ad, and very dated advertisement at that! I mean, wow, it's..." [
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11 months ago
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"I had the lat/long that was automatically generated by the geocoder thingie for "Tokyo" on my userpage, but someone pointed out to me during the one meetup I went to that it was the location of the Imperial Palace. I fixed it, but now I..." [
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"I keep recommending this, but the novel The Gift of Numbers by Yoko Ogawa features a math professor whose memory only lasts 80 minutes a stretch. I know you said no "absent-minded" professors, but this protagonist is like this because of an..." [
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"I'm sorry, I've got nothing to add except to ask if I may join the support group? The first thing I do when I buy my cuppa is to open that plastic lid and let it sit until it's nice and tepid.
I've always watched with amazement the people who can..." [
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"Kind of late to the thread, but my situation is kind of like b33j's in that when we got married almost 10 years ago, we were youngish and had an unplanned baby and no money. And in the very beginning, after about a year of dating, we had broken up..." [
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"I thought Yuji Saiga, too, or Shin-ichiro Kobayashi. Or Ryuji Miyamoto.
A long shot, but maybe Tokyo Nobody by Masataka Nakano?" [
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"From this page (excerpt, early morning translation by me):
Chromium and neodymium have not been used as the raw materials in all of the SK-II products. Trace elements of these ingredients exist naturally in the general environment and in products..." [
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Last year
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"Thanks for asking, LadyBonita, I'm very interested in this question, too. Summer vacation for children began today and I've been thinking the same thing. My family and I live right smack in the middle of Tokyo, where madly speeding taxi drivers could..." [
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Two years ago
