The Soul of Japan

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This blog site would be great if you left off this...

2012-04-25T14:49:49.291-07:00

This blog site would be great if you left off this bizarre social and sexual editorial stuff and stuck with your strong points: sake, food, onsen, and travel.

@RNSane, Thanks for the comment. Most Japanese ...

2012-04-23T04:49:55.696-07:00

@RNSane,

Thanks for the comment. Most Japanese cannot say "no!" directly. This inability to be direct will be challenging for the people of Tohoku in the coming years.

Very interesting reading...perhaps a polite, no th...

2012-04-21T15:12:18.833-07:00

Very interesting reading...perhaps a polite, no thank you, we're not interested in your donations, would suffice, then don't take the offerings of charity.

Hi Jeffrey, this is a rant according to my observ...

2012-03-12T20:59:04.695-07:00

Hi Jeffrey, this is a rant according to my observations. Decadence is getting in the way of a lot traditional aspects of sake.

Such magical sights. :) I'm all for finding h...

2012-03-01T01:53:23.140-08:00

Such magical sights. :)

I'm all for finding hidden gems away from the obvious tourists choice but of course, having non-existent Japanese language ability always managed to thwart the effort to break away from the beaten path.

Thanks for sharing. :)

I would like to try out an onsen if I am lucky eno...

2012-02-29T15:13:44.520-08:00

I would like to try out an onsen if I am lucky enough to have another trip to Japan

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2012-02-12T08:03:09.056-08:00
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2012-02-10T20:00:35.198-08:00
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2012-02-10T18:18:15.586-08:00
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"Korean K pop is ruining Japan, just like the...

2012-02-10T11:26:49.105-08:00
"Korean K pop is ruining Japan, just like these Western celebugeeks. Couldn't believe channel 8 was being taken over by Korea. This isn't Korea . Japanese men and J- mommas boy fanatics need to band together and protect Japanese women from Korean men's charms, and from the spread of all of these strange love energy."

No one loves Japan more than I do and we've been an item for about 20 years longer than you've been alive, youngin'. And I'll admit that I love a fantasy Japan as well that probably never existed anywhere but in my own mind and that is now gone never to return. But do you, of all people, realize what a racist post this is? Anywhere else I'd write this off as bad satire. But knowing your love of all things traditional, it comes off as a rather hysterical post.

I don't care a jot about Nihonshu; you're welcome to my share of it. But this business about protecting Japan and, particularly, Japanese women from Korean men is just Mandingo set in a different part of the world.

As a resident of Japan, you should know that there really isn't any such thing as the Yamato. They didn't sprout out of the ground. The first imperial court were most likely exiles and/or conquerors from Chosen. That's why the right wing nut cases don't like those mounds down Nara way to be too closely inspected. And though no one knows for sure, it is believed that the SW part of the country was probably first settled by people from Mainland Asia and SE Asia, and the Ainu were there before anyone else anyway.

So, just whose people are you exorting the Japanese to protect themselves against?

As for the "Western celebugeeks," talk to the locals about that since as they've been going there now for nearly 70 years, at the invitation of the Japanese. Their influence on Japan is far less than the Black Ships and is culturally balanced by the anime and manga geek culture that has taken root on this side of the Pacific and elsewhere.

About the only way your version of the "soul of Japan" can be saved at this point is if they pull a contemporary Tokugawa and close the country off all together. But then you'd be asked to leave and the country and it's arguably moribund culture would die off as it devolved into a large scale version of "Lord of the Flies."

I'm sympathetic to your nostalgia, which is what it boils down to. But nothing is quite so pathetic as a foreigner in a foreign land railing against foreign influences.

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Sumo is exciting, but i don't like the uniform...

2012-02-03T04:19:11.378-08:00
Sumo is exciting, but i don't like the uniform~gehehe~ ^_^'a

@sixmats, Thanks for the comment. It was about m...

2012-01-30T05:24:53.917-08:00
@sixmats,

Thanks for the comment. It was about minus 4C.... The only thing is you had to sit on tatami. The canopy was a slight draw back, but I understand why they use them.

That is an awesome scene. I have only been there i...

2012-01-29T22:51:50.559-08:00
That is an awesome scene. I have only been there in the late summer. How cold was it?

Thank you Jeffrey for clearing that up for me. I ...

2011-12-01T08:03:06.097-08:00
Thank you Jeffrey for clearing that up for me. I could've done better on referencing that.

2011-11-29T11:50:57.781-08:00
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2011-11-25T00:36:09.283-08:00
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2011-11-25T00:35:47.237-08:00
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Japan has some amazing BBQ or Yakiniku restaurants...

2011-11-14T02:39:38.601-08:00
Japan has some amazing BBQ or Yakiniku restaurants.

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Hairy << Interracial love is a beautiful thi...

2011-10-23T06:25:05.253-07:00
Hairy << Interracial love is a beautiful thing. What I was trying to convey in this post was that Japanese women fail at retaining their soul/mind when non-Japanese elements are introduced into their lives. Whether they be with foreign men or living in another country. They struggle to keep that balance, or fail completely.

You're not insinuating that just because a Jap...

2011-10-23T02:41:29.229-07:00
You're not insinuating that just because a Japanese woman is married to a white/black that this is a bad thing are you? By taking extreme examples and not having any references other than your biased outlook, one would think that as a black man, you can't stand the fact that the only women that you can get are these lost souls.

ok...but who tries to do something about losing we...

2011-10-20T07:21:18.906-07:00
ok...but who tries to do something about losing weight by going to McDonalds?!