Japan, Funny Side Up

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This is the only way we can truly understand and respect another culture. With the current popularity of blogs, videos, podcasts, Facebook, Twitter, etc, another aim of the book is to recommend places people can go to find more information on various subjects. There are so many good J-bloggers out there who work really hard, usually with no compensation for their work.

Japan, Funny Side Up

So I want to highlight the people who are doing an outstanding job of presenting up-to-date information about what's happening here in Japan. That's something a regular book just cannot do.

And while there are a lot of average sites on Japan out there, the really good ones deserve a mention. Did you have any interest in Japan before moving there? Japan was still hot at the time, and the opportunity to teach came via my university.

TOKYO (11 a.m.)

Teaching at university in Japan was my first real job. I had planned on staying for five years. Have you formally studied the Japanese language? Can you read and write Japanese?

See a Problem?

I studied Japanese formally at a language school the first year I was here. All the other students at the school were Chinese studying to pass the Japanese university entrance exams, so I had to study very hard to keep up they already knew the kanji. I would go to language school for four hours in the morning, go teach university in the afternoon, then go home and grade papers. Nonetheless, I still managed to learn to read and write Japanese. You live on a remote island in Japan. Tell us how you ended up there and a little bit about what it's like to live there.

I had lived in Okayama city, for almost five years when I moved to the island. I found it, in a big way, on this little island. The people are awesome—all of them!

Love in Translation

Life on the island is a sub-theme in my next book, about running the mile Shikoku Temple Buddhist Pilgrimage, which I currently have an agent interested in. Posted by Wendy Tokunaga at 9: Newer Post Older Post Home. The Finding Factor is a number from 1 to 20, which represents the chances of actually being able to find someone among the crowd at the designated meeting place.

The chance of finding someone at Tokyo Dome, for example, is not as great as finding someone at the Parasite Museum. Thus, the Finding Factor of Tokyo Dome is high at 20 while the parasite museum is only 1.

The reason fountains are installed at all major railway stations is to give people a place to meet. Meeting people at fountains is relatively easy, earning all fountains a Finding Factor of 2. So, according to the scientific formula, if you are meeting someone at Tokyo Station at 6: If you are driving to pick up someone, then the scientific formula is different: Then square this amount by the amount of time it takes to circle the nearest block. Be sure to leave enough time to circle the block and arrive exactly on time, not 50 seconds before.

This method of driving around the block must be an exclusively Japanese time management strategy. Such activity would be considered suspicious in the United States, where someone would call the police immediately. Japanese people will often wait for you up to an hour.

Foreigners have different ideas of time, which is why there is a different scientific formula for meeting a foreigner. When Japanese are going to meet an American, they should use the above scientific formula then add a minute Late Factor.

This is because, in South America, time is much slower, and one day can stretch into one week. Time is negotiable, and people freely add extra minutes and hours as needed. This is in stark contrast to the Japanese, who run everything as if the world is going to end the next minute.

Comedy collective highlights the funny side of Tokyo

For example, if you get on the right JTB tour, you can easily see all of Japan in one day. Jun 30, Tami rated it it was ok Shelves: Too "funny" to be useful, too "travel info" like to be very descriptive or personal. I only gave it the 3 intro chapters before I gave up. Maybe it got better later. Anja rated it liked it Dec 27, Dean Kang rated it liked it Apr 04, Albert Lin rated it it was ok Dec 16, Juliann rated it really liked it Nov 20, Tony rated it it was amazing Oct 26, Nicole rated it really liked it Feb 25, Daniel Bodri rated it it was amazing Jan 01, Megan rated it liked it May 26, Amandine rated it it was amazing Jul 15, Nicole rated it really liked it Apr 13, Draden rated it really liked it Sep 20, Leana Dappen rated it it was ok Jan 12, Meg rated it liked it Jul 17, Nancy rated it did not like it Aug 17, Bill rated it liked it Jan 04, Jess Neuner rated it liked it Sep 05, Andrea rated it liked it Jul 02, Corinne rated it really liked it May 29, Jodi rated it it was amazing Oct 02, Holmes rated it liked it Mar 06, Paul rated it it was amazing Dec 25, Sarah rated it liked it Aug 11, Coran added it Feb 19, Brian added it Oct 21, Eleanor marked it as to-read Nov 21, Ajit Bhandari marked it as to-read Feb 20, Leah marked it as to-read Mar 17, Josh Yates marked it as to-read Mar 11, Stefano marked it as to-read Jul 11, Nagesh marked it as to-read Jun 14, Sridhar marked it as to-read Jul 28, A marked it as to-read Sep 07, Mellissa marked it as to-read Jul 25, Stefan Roesch marked it as to-read May 16, Inaka Blues marked it as to-read Jul 28, Kim marked it as to-read Jul 31, Lucy Min marked it as to-read Jun 16, Yasuhiro Yoshida marked it as to-read Aug 10, John Williams is currently reading it Sep 09,

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