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I am a cram school teacher in Japan. I teach English and math to Japanese children. Though I would like to have friends all over the world, I prefer not to jump into Skype or other apps right away. I'd like to have some conversations first to know each other better. Please note that I'm looking for English-Japanese and Korean-Japanese exchange partners.
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    Why Japanese High school girls take プリクラPurikura Pictures #7 前述したように、女子高生たちは“詐欺ってる”感じになりたくないと言います。しかし、大人の感覚では、プリクラこそ別人並みに盛れてしまい、それこそ“詐欺”です。 As I mentioned earlier, they don’t want to be considered like fraud「詐欺ってる」 However, from a perspective of an adult, プリクラ makes them look completely like a different person, and that is exactly like fraud「詐欺ってる」.  「プリクラは自然に盛れてるし、詐欺という感じはない。SNOWは鼻とか隠しててずるい。いかにもかわいくしたいって感じであざとさが出る」「プリクラはプリクラだから、原型がないとかいう考え方はない」 But they say "プリクラ makes us look good naturally, and I don’t feel like it is fraud". SNOW covers a nose and it’s sneaky. It is so obvious that you want to look pretty using that.” "For プリクラ they don’t think their original face is completely lost"   彼女たちは高校2年生。小学校の高学年からプリクラを撮り始めたそうです。プリクラの進化は早く、1年違うと盛れ方も画質も全然違うそう。参考にと2年前のプリクラを見せてもらいましたが、2年前は目が不自然に大きく、唇の赤さも、肌の質感もまったく異なっていました。   They are eleventh graders. They began taking プリクラ pictures from the upper grades of the elementary school. The development of プリクラ sticker are very fast, and a one year difference makes the method they retouch their pictures become completely different. They showed me a プリクラstickers they took two years ago, and the way they make their eyes bigger, the way they made their lips red, and the texture of the skin was totally different. 「自撮りは日常、プリクラは記念」という彼女たち。スマホやアプリのセルフィー技術が進化しても、プリクラを忘れることはないようです。 They said, "Selfies are day-to-day activities, プリクラs are for remembrance." Even if the selfie techniques for smartphones and the apps get better, they’d probably never stop using プリクラ stickers.
    November 6, 2018
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    Why Japanese High school girls take プリクラPurikura Pictures #6 「遊んだ記念。仲良しの4人で集まったときとか」「体育祭で髪の毛を盛って仮装をするんだけど、その帰りに来たりする。その格好にもう一度着替えて撮るの。やっぱり記念だよね」「なんとなく時間が余ったときも撮るけど(笑)」 They answered “We take pictures when the four of us gather as a good memory. for good friendship; For example at the athletic meet we dress up our hair, and masquerade, we come here and change our clothes to those costumes and take pictures on our way home.” So, we take pictures for remembrance and we also take pictures for no special reason when we have some time.   他の女子高生にも聞いたところ、彼氏とプリクラを撮ることが一番幸せなのだそう。  「プリ撮ろうって言ってくれる彼氏は最高。2人の思い出になる」 I asked other high school girls, of another group she seems to be the happiest when she takes a プリクラpicture with her boyfriend. She said "A boyfriend who says “Let’s take プリクラ pictures together is the best! It would be a great memory for the two of us”   また、プリクラの期間限定企画も、プリクラに来るきっかけのひとつだそうです。取材時は、梅沢富美男さんとのコラボ企画があり、フレームやスタンプに梅沢富美男さんが入るプリクラ機がありました。大人の感覚でいうと、女子高生が梅沢富美男さんと撮りたいとは意外ですが、とても人気なのだそうです。 In addition, time-limited プリクラplans seem to be one of the catalyst to come to プリクラ. One time there was a collaboration plan with Tomio Umezawa. There were プリクラ machines where Tomio Umezawa were in a frame and a stamp. It was unexpected from an adult point of view that high school girls would want to take pictures with Tomio Umezawa, but it seemed to be very popular. また、スマホのアプリにはないプリクラの魅力として、「引きの写真が多いので、四角くトリミングしやすく、SNSのプロフィール画像に設定しやすい」「その日着ている洋服のコーデも撮影できる」といった点も挙げていました。 「自撮りは日常、プリクラは記念」 In addition, an advantage of using プリクラ instead of applications of the smartphones are “You can take pictures from a distance so they are easier to trim them in a square, and set them to profile images of SNS accounts " "It is easier to take pictures of the coordination of their clothes they wore" Selfies are day-to-day activities, プリクラs are for remembrance.
    November 6, 2018
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    Why Japanese High school girls take プリクラPurikura Pictures #5 ブースの中に入り、慣れた調子で次々とポーズをとります。ゲラゲラ笑いながら、とにかく楽しそうです。撮影が終わると、加工のコーナーに移動します。タッチペンで目の大きさ、美白効果などを1枚ずつに施していきます。タッチペンは2本なので4人で交代しながら、自分の顔を修整します。 They entered the booth and posed in sequence, in a accustomed manner. They bursted into laughter, anyway they looked very happy. When photography was over, they moved to the corner for processing the pictures. There were four people but there were only 2 touch pens to alter their pictures, so they took turns to retouch themselves, such as the size of their eyes, do whitening effect to their skin etc. to each picture. “これは事故ってる”という写真は、片目をペンで塗りつぶしたり、スタンプで口を隠したりと次々に加工が進んでいきます。あまりの手早さについていけず、途中で手を止めてもらって説明してもらいましたが、早くしないと次の画面に進んでしまうので、彼女たちの楽しそうな様子を見守ることにしました。 For photographs they call , "事故ってる”an accident" they paint or place stamps over the eye or mouth with the pen, the processing went on so fast that I couldn’t keep up with them. At first they stopped for a while to explain for me, but if they don’t hurry, the next screen would show up so I decided to watch them process their pictures happily.  撮影したプリクラ画像はデータでも受け取ることができ、これを友達とシェアします。どういうときにプリクラを撮るの?と尋ねてみました。 The プリクラ images can be received via data and can be shared with friends. I asked when they like to take プリクラpictures.
    November 6, 2018
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    Why Japanese High school girls take プリクラPurikura Pictures #4 なぜわざわざ有料のプリクラで撮影するのでしょうか。その理由を知りたくて、女子高生たちのプリクラについていきました。 “事故ってる顔”はペンやスタンプで加工 Why would they bother to pay for プリクラ photographs? I wanted to know the reason and followed the high school girls to the プリクラ machine. 出かけたのは、彼女たちがよく行くというゲームセンター。プリクラ機がずらりと並んでいます。みんなが認める人気のプリクラ機があるのかと思いきや、一緒に行った4人の中でも好みが分かれるとのこと。それは、どのように盛られるかという好みの問題で、加工機能の使い勝手ではないそうです。 We went to the game center they usually go. There were lots of プリクラmachines lined up in a row. But the 4 girls had different preferences of the プリクラmachines. The way the machines retouch are different. so that is what divides their preference, the way the machine alters their photos. But there is no big difference in processing the pictures such as scribbling functions etc.  プリクラは1回400円。今回は4人組だったので、100円ずつの割り勘です。「100円ならいいかなって思う。2人だと1人200円になるから、そうなるとやめとこうって」と、ある女子高生。100円と200円では大きな差があるようです。 A プリクラ photo sticker costs 400 yen. Since the group has 4 people, they can split it by 100 yen each. One of the high school girls said "If it is 100 yen it is good. but if there are only 2 of them and it is 200 yen each, then she would hold back from taking them. To her it seemed there is a big difference between 100 yen and 200 yen.
    November 6, 2018
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    Why Japanese High school girls take プリクラPurikura Pictures #3 つい高価なiPhone Xをねだられた親の気持ちに寄り添ってしまいますが、Androidスマホにはビューティモードがあること、撮影するだけでプリクラのような加工ができることを説明してみました。ところが、反応はイマイチ。  「すごいって思うけど、使わないかも。詐欺ってる感じになりそう」 I felt compassion towards their parents, asking for expensive iPhone X, so I explained that Android smartphone photographs have beauty mode, that you can do touch ups likeプリクラphotographs. However, the reaction was not really good. They said they think it is impressive but they’d probably not use the function, because it is like fraud「詐欺ってる」.  「詐欺ってる」とは、写真を盛りすぎて「詐欺」レベルにかわいくなっている状態を指します。「自分をかわいく見せたいけど、良く見せようという気持ちがあからさまに出ることは避けたい」 Like fraud「詐欺ってる」means retouching the picture severely like a scam. They said "I want to make myself look cute, but I don’t want people to think I’m so obvious that I am striving to make myself look good"  「詐欺」レベルの自撮りといえば、プリクラを思い出します。プリクラで加工された顔は、いったいこれは誰なのかと思うぐらいに変わってしまいますよね。もちろん、加工のかけ方は好みに調整できるのですが、もはやプリクラの顔と現実の顔の2種類があるように感じます。 Speaking of fraud level selfies, it reminds me of プリクラ. A face retouched by プリクラ is changed to an extent like “Who is this person?” Of course, if you do not want to change yourself you can make adjustments so that it wouldn’t change the photograph too much, but the girls seem to have 2 faces, a プリクラ face and the real face.  女子高生たちは、スマホを使って美しい顔に加工できるにもかかわらず、おカネを払ってプリクラを撮っています。LINEやTwitterのプロフィール画像も友人とのプリクラ写真が使われることが多いのです。 Though high school girls can retouch their faces with smartphone apps to make them look beautiful, they pay to get プリクラ sticker photographs. LINE and Twitter profile pictures are often taken by プリクラ pictures with their friends.
    November 6, 2018
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    Why Japanese High school girls take プリクラPurikura Pictures #2 女子高生に人気のスマホは、言わずもがなiPhoneです。iPhoneのカメラアプリは欧米の美的感覚で設計されているためか、ポートレートモードでも肌の質感は「現実」そのままに描写します。 Not surprisingly, the most popular smartphone among high school girls, is iPhone. iPhone’s camera apps are designed based on European and American aesthetic taste so even when the pictures are taken by portrait mode, the skin is taken as is "reality", they do not do touch ups to make their skin look better.  一方、Androidスマートフォンのカメラアプリは「ビューティモード」の搭載が主流となっています。特に設定を変更しなくても人物の顔を認識し、肌を陶器のように美しく、目を大きく加工して撮影する機種が次々に発売されています。 On the other hand, Android smartphone camera is releasing apps in sequence with "the beauty mode" . You do not have to change the settings to make the apps recognize a face of the person, in particular, the apps would process photographs making eyes look bigger, skin looking smoother like ceramics. The mainstream of Android smartphone camera is “beauty mode".  とはいえ女子高生たちは「とにかくiPhone!」なので、私の所有しているiPhone Xを見ても大騒ぎです。 However, high school girls, "love iPhone"! So, they were very excited to see my iPhone X.  「これ、もう一眼レフみたいって聞いたよ」「ママに買ってって言ったらダメって言われたー」 They said "I heard this is like an single-lens reflex camera" "when I asked my mom to buy it for me, she said “no”"
    November 5, 2018
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    Why Japanese High school girls take プリクラPurikura Pictures #1 スマホのインカメラで自分自身を撮影することを「自撮り」と言いますが、人に撮影してもらうことを女子高生たちは何と呼ぶかご存じですか? 答えは「他撮り」です。  「自撮りは顔に自信がある子って思われちゃう。他撮りなら反感買わない」「あと、自撮りだと盛れる角度で撮ってるから、他撮りだとイマイチな子っているよね」「いるいるー! あと現実カメラはやめてほしいよね」 The high school girls were discussing, taking a photograph by themselves with smartphone's built-in camera is called 「自撮り」"selfie" but photographs taken by someone else is called「他撮り」"Other taken". To avoid the antagonism, they say 「他撮り」"Other taken" pictures are better because when you take 「自撮り」"selfies" you know the angle that can make you look good (you can盛れる), so other girls would think girls who do 「自撮り」"selfies" are confident about their looks". But actually there are some girls that do 自撮り」"selfies" that are not good-looking when they are taken by someone else"「他撮り」 Then, the other girls agreed and said “There are. There are.いるいるー!" Then the girls agreed they don’t want to be taken pictures by 「現実カメラ」real cameras.  「現実カメラ」とは、スマホ標準のカメラアプリのこと。盛れないカメラアプリで撮影されるのは「地獄」だそうです。女子高生の肌にシミやしわなどないのですが、「ほくろが気に入らない」「輪郭が丸い」などの不満があり、そのままSNSにアップするのは耐えられないようです。 「現実カメラ」 "The real cameras" are smartphone's cameras. The girls said having a photograph taken by a real camera that cannot be touched up is like "hell" to them. High school girls’ do not have spots or wrinkles on their skin, but they have parts of their faces they don’t like such as the shape, they think their faces are too round, or they have moles they dislike on their faces, and they can’t stand to post it on their social media accounts without touch ups. Androidのカメラは美しく加工してくれるが… Android cameras can change their looks beautifully…
    November 5, 2018
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    October 30, 2018
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    I believe in God too.
    In Japan, a person named Yukichi Fukuzawa said 「天は自らを助くる者を助く」
    it means "God helps those who help themselves."
    You have to pray but you also have to work hard to make your dreams come true.
    I wish people would be more forgiving so the world can be more peaceful.
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    October 29, 2018
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