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Top music excusive are leading an effort now to pause their business operations in a movement called Blackout Tuesday. They are encouraging workers and artists to use this days to reflect on racism and inequality in America. I feel like there is a big gap between American and Wheaten culture, and Japanese culture when it comes to arguing with people and having strong opinions on things. Especially, many people are showing solidarities to protest for the violence against black people. Of course this is just a huge generalization, so every person is completely different. But, one of the things that I noticed was the seemingly lack of strong opinions by people In Japan Or at least the lack of willingness to express their strong opinions.
Now, this is not including arguments on the internet. You will find crazy people arguing about everything on the internet and I don't think that is a good reflection of people in real life. But, mentioning about politics is not seen as good things. in Japan Especially, the celebrities in Japan get target critisim more than normal people if they remark about politics. I have seen that their tweets about controversial issues caused a stir.
I think that the famous people may remark about politics. They also have the freedom of expression. I think that not being able to protest against nations is getting in the way to develop the countries.
Now, recently Prime minister SInzo Abe tried to amend the retirement age of public prosecutors, but he could not do because of widespread backlash. There is a suspicion that Abe have a cozy relationtiop with the prosecution and seep his bad activities under the rug. The leader of prosecutor is reaching the retirement age, so Abe was planning to expand it 60 years old to 65 years old.
Some celebrates asked for their supporters to protest about this. Finally, the goverment rescinded this decision.
What do you think about that celebraties remark their political idea?
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Drinking and Japanese Toilets
Drinking Party
Through drinking, I was able to learn a lot about the people I was working with; their interests, families, worries and concerns, dreams and aspirations, things that bother them as well as things that make them happy...I feel that all those times spent at the izakaya brought me closer to my coworkers and those are memories I will cherish forever. I hate to be compelled to drink by people and the people use drinking as the excuse to do any kind of harassment. If you control yourself, not to be tanked, drinking can play a great significant role in building good human relationship.
Japanese Bathroom
Bill Gates announced that he would invest to commercialize the water system that does not require water and sewers. And he tried to illustrated that how important sanitation is preventing the spread of disease. I would like to describe my brief thoughts on this water system. I will evaluate three aspects: cleanliness, practicability, costs. First of all, cleanliness. I heard that he drunk sewage filtered out impurities from by this water system, but he did not get ill. Second, practicability. If it is put to practical use in region where hyginenic toilets can be used, we can curb the spread of an infectious disease. Third, costs. I think costs is one hurdle that he will have to overcome. It is stretch to mass-produce this toilet, I still have a question if it will be reasonable price.
By the way, I think that one of benefits of living in Japan is that you can use immaculate toilet everywhere. Before, 9, 10 years, I had felt annoyed because paper towel and soup were not equipped in the every public toilets. I hate to dry my hands on my cloths, so I always carried around handkerchief. And squad toilets are still used. I believe that it can really throw them off for many first timers visiting Japan it can be really confusing and be challenge. But, you do not need to sit down toilets, so if you concern about the contagion of toilets or have an OCD. This toilets are will be fit. And our toilets have many unique functions such like lid s which open and close automatically , the seat are heated, deodorizer spritzes away smells and the bidet and Otohime, which is a product to mask the noise while you are doing.
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Drinking
I was invented to drinking parties with my co-workers. My senior are normally serious at the workplace. After they got blasted, they begun to act silly. They showed me their photo about their kids and spoke highly of lavished praise on their children. I realized that they are doting parents. But, the following day, they complitely back to normal which it is like nothing ever happened I got know their personality at working and after working was night and day.
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Otaku
It is been a while to see oversee friends via Zoom. We have known for six years and I love to chat with them. Two years ago, they got writing Ph.D dissertation over the line and got the job in Japan. Because they long for working in Japan, they wanted to get the job by hook or by crook. They underwent incredible hardship in Japan. They had been struggle to speak formal Japanese, so they had blew it at their job interview. Finally, they got the jobs. I am glad to hear that they could begin their career in Japan.
By the way, I was stumped at foreign people’s stereotype for Japan. They believe that Japanese can accept Otaku and Otaku’s hobby. But, I do not burst their bobble, Otaku is also seen as odd people In Japan. What are my friend is Otaku of motorcycle. He like to jazz his motorcycle up. He shows off his motorcycle to me and toots his own horn about his motorcycle. When I travel with him by motorcycle and park it, but his motorbike sticked out like a sore thumb in parking area. Of course I know it is none of my business what people jazz their motorbike up. But I felt embarrassed a bit to park a my motorbike next to his.
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the Affects of Coronavirus
I was a chef, but because of coronavirus, I lost my job. To give some context, From when COVID-19 was detected, just out of nowhere, customers begun to dwindle. On February, few customers showed up in my restaurant. My company is on its last legs now. On March, my boss told me that he fired me. I was down in the dumps because I went all-out and dug deep to get this culinary skill and lost income. But, I can be helped because no one imagined this epidemic. I looked on the bright sight of losing the job. I do not need to go out. Now, I am looking for a new job. I really want to get the job sooner rather than later. I hope I can work the down-to-earth company.
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which side are you on?
Which side are you on? I got this question seveal times from Japanese and Korean people. I studied abroad to Korea and can speak Korean language and love the Korean things such like music, cuisine, TVshow. And I know there are politicial historical issues between two countries to face on and think very seriously.
one day, I uploaded some photos to my Twitter account adding #traveltoKorea. 95% comments are very positive like 'oh, I want to visit there' or 'have you eaten ... in Korea?' but some comments told me like Why did you visit anit-Japanese country!? I responded like I knew there were serious issue and I do not like all kind of things about Korea, sometime I feel frastrated about Korean goverment, but these are not excuse to hate and descriminate some community. After I sent this comments to him, he said which side are you on? You are a traitor to Japan!!
in the other day, some Korean guy bombered with hateful comments to me online because I critisized Korean food, I love to eat Korean food, but what I eat was too spicy for me. and he told me the same question which side are you on? Do not pretend pro-Korean Japanese.
I know answering to this question 'which side are you on?' is waste of time because the intention why they ask me is not discuss with me but hate me.
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bullying
I have never gotten bad bullied. if i would say, when I was in juniour high school, certain bully students hid my school bags and laughed at me flustered, but it does not have permanece, I think they just want to banter with someone to pass the time. I do not care about seriously, just say to him like hey this is noy funny. Bullying is still a huge problem in Japan, especially cyberbullying. I really feel relieved about there had not existed SNS in my school life. if you were taken movie your getting bullied and someone upload to SNS, it will ruin not only your school life but also your future. The things which were uploaded to SNS, you can not delete them forever.
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No more climbing at Uluru
I knew climbing Uluru had been banned yesterday. I felt shocked a bit because I wanted to visit there. I researched about the background of being banned to climb. I agree with this division. Uluru is sacred place for indigenous populations. They own it. How do they might feel very shocked if every year many foreign visiters come there and put the chain to climb at sacred place for them. And I heard climbing at Uluru is dangerous because its mountain path is very steep. If some climber fall and get injured or died, indigenous people might feel suffered. And there are no bathrooms in Uluru, if climber need to go there, what do they do? They have to do at this sacred place. The indigenous people might feel deeply humiliated if visitors use their special place as bathroom and this place get dirty.
These are my some views for the banned climbing at Uluru. What do you think about this decision? And if you are people from Australia, please let me know how this decision reacted to Australia.
Thank you for watching my notebook entry.
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I knew climbing Uluru had been banned
I knew climbing Uluru had been banned yesterday. I felt shocked a bit because I wanted to visit there. I researched about the background of being banned to climb. I agree with this division. Uluru is sacred place for indigenous populations. They own it. How do they might feel very shocked if every year many foreign visiters come there and put the chain to climb at sacred place for them. And I heard climbing at Uluru is dangerous because its mountain path is very steep. If some climber fall and get injured or died, indigenous people might feel suffered. And there are no bathrooms in Uluru, if climber need to go there, what do they do? They have to do at this sacred place. The indigenous people might feel deeply humiliated if visitors use their special place as bathroom and this place get dirty.
These are my some views for the banned climbing at Uluru. What do you think about this decision? And if you are people from Australia, please let me know how this decision reacted to Australia.
Thank you for watching my notebook entry.
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Japanese transportation system
General thing, Japanese walk a lot. Me too. Japan do not have such a car culture beside countryside. Recently, among young men, they do not purchase their own car until they die. Moreover, people who do not interested in car are increasing now. The demand of drive through service and Uber or Lift are not as great as the other countries have.
We have good transportation system. But, their fee is more expensive than the other countries. When I visited Korea, I got surprised at how cheap Korean transportation system is. Even the same distance, you can go more cheaper in Korea than Japan. I think most of Korean transportation system is run by the same company,so they can set up cheap fee. Japan has various companies run transportation system. In Osaka, we have at least 10 different companies of it. When you transfer to other line, you have to pay additional fee. Even we have transportation system which we can rely on, we walk or ride bicycles to save money.
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