doggy-style 0 Posted January 18, 2002 Share Posted January 18, 2002 .. be honest now.. Link to post Share on other sites
ivo 0 Posted January 18, 2002 Share Posted January 18, 2002 the first few weeks in tokyo where hate!!! i had allready some japanese friends, but they where too busy, i felt alone and had too many really strange experiances. after i made some new friends and i found my "homebar" in shibuya i felt more and more confortable. then i went traveling and snowboarding, i start to like japan. now, since i'm back home i miss japan. but it could be possible that i hate japan again when i come back. Link to post Share on other sites
cal 6 Posted January 18, 2002 Share Posted January 18, 2002 Pretty much both of those emotions felt several times a day. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted January 22, 2002 Share Posted January 22, 2002 Love it. Love it. Love it. Some of the best friends I have are Japanese and they are just such good friends. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted January 27, 2002 Share Posted January 27, 2002 luv it! Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted January 28, 2002 Share Posted January 28, 2002 Yo Loi That is one cool icon man ! How do you do that one ? It's not on the SJG list. I read somewhere that UBB supports 14 in all. Anybody know where there's a list...Cheers (Mega blizzard at 47 today. All lifts went out of operation just after 3. From the top of the quad it was impossible to go right towards r2 and r3. Really wild weather) Link to post Share on other sites
Ski Japan Guide 0 Posted January 28, 2002 Share Posted January 28, 2002 For now...... Put after the smiley. That should bring him up! SJG (Click on the UBB Code is ON link to the left of the screen when you are posting a message for more on html code in messages) Link to post Share on other sites
diesel 0 Posted February 4, 2002 Share Posted February 4, 2002 Just read one of the threads about the Olympics and the way that the coverage is 99% "our boys and girls" (ie. the Japanese team). That overwhelmingly bias coverage of any sporting event gets on my nerves real bad. It just comes across as so ugly. And stupid. Link to post Share on other sites
brit-gob 9 Posted February 28, 2002 Share Posted February 28, 2002 Agree with you on that.... Link to post Share on other sites
Davo 1 Posted March 1, 2002 Share Posted March 1, 2002 And didn't they do well! It's always interesting to know all about the 17th place getter-share their tears and all that. All countries will inevitably focus on their own participants but the coverage of actual place getters and events not including Japanese athletes seems particulaly bad. Back to the original thread-love and hate depending on the day. Link to post Share on other sites
Wizz 11 Posted March 9, 2002 Share Posted March 9, 2002 Been out of Japan for a while and you know what? .....glad to be back. So I suppose I must like it deep down! Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted March 18, 2002 Share Posted March 18, 2002 I love Japan and it's people. They're great. Link to post Share on other sites
gamera 0 Posted March 19, 2002 Share Posted March 19, 2002 Not sure I can express what I think good or not, but gimme a try - remember, my mother tongue is Japanese! When I watch some soccer games on TV, Japanese cheering parties always yell only to Japanese team even when the other team shows cool plays. Other nations give warm applause when the other teams shows cool plays. Perhaps Japanese people can't be honest for our feeling, emotion. Long story, guess probably our history causes it. Samurai had katana in Edo era and normal people always had to get scared with them. Japan was a natinalism country before WW2 as everyone knows. So normal people did not permitted to express their own thought in public. If they did, they got arrested. So normal people needed to hide their feeling, emotion. I think that character still survives in Japanese comunity. Maybe that's why Japanese people yell only to Japanese team in olympic games, soccer games etc? Unique people like me sometimes tend to be isolated in Japanese community. But anyway I have never lived abroad, so exactly don't know the difference between outside Japan and inside to live on. Just know something as informations hearing some Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted March 21, 2002 Share Posted March 21, 2002 Been here for 3 years now, got to go back in another 1. Generally love the place, but I suppose you tend to when you live the expat life! Not too sure if I have "seen" the real Japan or not. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted March 21, 2002 Share Posted March 21, 2002 I'd say if you had been here 3 years and not seen the 'real' Japan, you'd have to have had your eyes closed... Or never been outside of Tokyo. Link to post Share on other sites
ganja 0 Posted March 21, 2002 Share Posted March 21, 2002 From a foreigners perspective, what's "real" Japan? Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted March 21, 2002 Share Posted March 21, 2002 Live in Tokyo. Wife and child. Expat benefits - great apartment complete with maid. Work for foreign investment bank. Travel a lot overseas on business. Go home twice a year. Entertainment in Tokyo. Rarely go out of Tokyo. No, not eyes closed - just "know Tokyo" and my environment. From what I can gather, people living out of Tokyo in the country and smaller towns experience Japan in a very different way than I do. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted March 21, 2002 Share Posted March 21, 2002 That's the point, there's no such thing. Anything and everything that goes on in Japan is the 'real' Japan - including gaijin hi-jinks. You can immerse yourself in the ancient arts while you wear hakama around Kyoto, but it's no more real Japan than buying a bottle of Two Dogs with yen in Lawson. Of course, if you've never been out of Tokyo, you won't have seen a good portion of some other Japanese reality... [This message has been edited by Ocean11 (edited 21 March 2002).] Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted March 21, 2002 Share Posted March 21, 2002 Yeah, yeah, well gee thanks for putting it so clearly to me then....what would I have done without your advice.... Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted March 21, 2002 Share Posted March 21, 2002 I dunno mate. You seem pretty dim anyways so it's anybody's guess... Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted March 22, 2002 Share Posted March 22, 2002 You can be a bit harsh at times can't you Ocean11? Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted March 24, 2002 Share Posted March 24, 2002 I love Japan. I love the country and the people, especially Hokkaido. I have visited 4 times in 2 years when I have holidays. I am even beginning to learn Japanese. Link to post Share on other sites
oo 1 Posted March 26, 2002 Share Posted March 26, 2002 Got caught out with the old ATM problem the other day. Just cannot understand why the blimmin things close down after early evening. Makes me right mad, it does that. Link to post Share on other sites
ivo 0 Posted March 27, 2002 Share Posted March 27, 2002 check out the post offices all arround japan. i'm not shure but i think they are open 24 hours and you can use all western cards there! Link to post Share on other sites
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