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Um no this classic will always be the JCJ Bible.

Konichiwa, m'jou-chan tips lid

TIL the Japanese work philosophy of “kaizen”, where people constantly seek to find ways to improve methods instead of just doing it the same way

https://lifehacker.com/get-better-at-getting-better-the-kaizen-productivity-p-1672205148

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How, you ask? The guy has the answer!

> Oi vey. The well-documented and well-recorded analysis about hokkaido culture being half-western and half-japanese in the sense that you have SOME Individuality but not complete individuality. the collectivity is in check over there but not to the point where its not present. many people who have analyzed the culture of hokkaido claim this is true, are you refuting that research?

On and his research consists of this book which he claims to have read and shown him the truth. He's never actually been to Hokkaido.

Stride through the door at 10:06 with a bagel and a cup of coffee, complaining about traffic.

The damned fewl!!

He's put down that he's a freelancer.

That means that he's probably married.

Which means that he's instantly cut his potential pool of hapless customers down by at least 108%!

I mean seriously, who the hell is going to try and have the poor chap's halfing babies if they have to go through the hassle of trying to prise him away from an existing wife, and risk being sued for sexual disruption and loss of knickers?

Also, "Chad" is clearly a pseudonym. Nobody's really called "Chad."

Well, except maybe for The Republic of Chad. A landlocked nation on the continent of Africa.

He should have concocted a more plausible name, such as "Cletus", or "Poof."

That's the thing that seems so strange to me. I hadn't heard of this guy until a thread 2 days ago when someone mentioned "JFZ", and I had to google it and find "Japanese From Zero" which he wrote.

Now, I know a thing or two about Japanese language resources, but I had never heard of this text before.

Yet, on amazon.co.jp, it's ranked as #2/#3 under (foreign) dictionaries/thesauri (depending on which supercategory it uses), and on amazon.com, it's #3 under Japanese references, just behind Genki.

You can simply buy amazon reviews, but I don't think you can so easily fake the sales rank.

Something is strange, and I don't know what it is. I doubt he simply bought 20k copies of his own text? Or maybe he did? It's from some no-name publisher--almost certainly his own company. Maybe they're selling through amazon, he buys 20k copies of his own text, gives Amazon their X% cut, and receives the texts back, and writes that loss off as "marketing expenses"? (Of course, he still has to actually sell the books afterwards or he's sitting on 20k copies of unsellable books and he has to eat the printing costs.)

His website, yesjapan.com (seems to be website version of his texts), seems to have also been steadily increasing in popularity as according to alexa.

He may be an idiot about Japanese grammar, but he does seem to know how to market to his target audience.

外z i need ur halp; I Wani'd when I should have Kani'd.

Hey guys! I loveeee anime and sushi and thought of this punny concept! I put up my very very first t-shirt design on amazon! Feel free to check it out! I would be hecka hecka happy!! Arigato!!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GVY8853/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1535408763&sr=8-2&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=shoeshi&dpPl=1&dpID=31CMvRNpkfL&ref=plSrch

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Why would you bring in facts or useful experts into a discussion of the society and politics of Japan. Thats only asking for trouble, what you should do is find the most absurd angle, one that only makes sense to people who have no critical thought.

It has to be something utterly insane, like Perfume are an Ultranationalist group and Yasutaka in their Uyoku leader, I know this because they released a cd called JPN.

I hate to be pedantic, but gooks are defined by their taxonomic name Orientalis Gookus. Orientalis Japanoica is referred to by the common name Japs, which is the term that you are looking for. Please refer to The Elements of Style, a book that has been in publication for 95 years and has wrecked the writing sensibilities of myriads upon myriads of hapless chaps and instilled them with a trite prose that would have you thinking they were japs, on how to properly employ the term in your writings.

And I was wondering what the woman equivalent to this thing was. Both horribly, horribly depressing.

1) Get a Russian travel visa.

2) Purchase folding sea kayak, (65,000~150,000 yen).

3) Paddle across the La Perouse Straits from the Wakkanai, Hokkaido, Japan to Sakhalin Russia--it's only 25 miles (40km) about the same as English Channel.

4) PROFIT!

Caveats: 1) La Perouse Straits is a bit choppy and colder this late in the season.

2) There are no immigration/customs offices at the southernmost point of Sakhalin, so you may need to liberal in offering Japanese whiskey to the locals. Getting to Korsakov, Sakhalin (civilization/customs office) take you another day. From Korsakov there are ferry connections to rail centers and airports. Refer to: wikitravel.org/en/Russia_to_Japan_via_Sakhalin

Counter point:

1. This middle school kids power point: https://prezi.com/hlgrevdpynvc/coke-diet-coke-coke-zero-mentos/

2. Is it really so hard for you to believe that op had trouble walking and drinking at the same time?

This is the one that Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel preferred to use when on manouevers:

> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.borisov.strelok

Using this, they say that he could hit a Bedouin Camel Jockey right between the humps from over 4 km away with the main gun of his command Panzer.

> So the next time I purchase something, I blatantly stretch out my arm with an open hand to get the change. Without looking, the cashier slams the change on the plate again. The time thereafter, I place my open hand DIRECTLY OVER THE PLATE, and she takes considerable effort to slide her hand under mine and put the change on the plate again. > >Finally, on the fourth go-around, I prepare lots of small change (rather than pay with a bill) and when she tells me the total, I went under her hand and slammed the change on the plate. Her look was daggers, and the exchange went like this: > > Cashier: Put it in my hand next time. > > Me: But I always have my hand out and you never to that for me. Why is it good enough for you but not for me? > > Cashier: (Glowering) Next please!

This reads exactly like some American trying to pull this kind of shit here in Japan (muh EQUALITY) and then complaining about how horrible Japan is. And then everyone in the comments goes on about the deep spirituality of the change tray.

Watashi knows what watashi is copying!

Tsundoku, the Japanese word for buying books you don't read should be entered into the English language

http://www.openculture.com/2018/07/tsundoku.html > > /u/canuckistani_lad:

>>When I was a kid, all my relatives seemed to believe I was a Hardy Boys fan. So they bought me just about every book in the series (100+?). >> >>Never read a single one. Encyclopedia Brown was my boy. > > > /u/col-fancypants:

>>>I hated reading as a kid. And then at the humble age of 11 I discovered Stephen King books.

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ERR: LOW TONER. REPLACE WITH OFFICIAL KIKKOMAN^TM PRODUCTS ONLY.

Tsundoku, the Japanese word for buying books you don't read should be entered into the English language

http://www.openculture.com/2018/07/tsundoku.html

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Looking to try 和紙 while in Tokyo. Open to suggestions. Price is a non issue.

Tsundoku, the Japanese word for buying books you don't read should be entered into the English language

http://www.openculture.com/2018/07/tsundoku.html

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Help me to understand your concerns.

1 USD is 1 USD

1 USD is 112.52 yen

1 BTC is 1 BTC

1 BTC is 6341 USD.

https://www.xe.com/ja/currencyconverter/convert/?Amount=1&From=XBT&To=USD

What don't you understand, exchange rates?

Wait, this same situation didn't really happened to the same youtubeur a few months ago? Funny how these girls always speak perfect english.

Edit, it was another Youtubeur https://rumble.com/v8vke3-streamer-helps-girl-away-from-stranger.html

My copying skill is N3 at the very least

TIL: Japan has one of the highest cremation rates in the world with the country reporting a cremation rate of 99.97%.

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_cremation_rate > > /u/juicius:

>>One factor that could contribute is in Japan, most families maintain a family shrine at home called Butsudan. (仏壇) There can also be an extended family grave site caked Haka. (墓) While families also visit Haka, a lot of the sentimental attachment one might have for as traditional gravesite is satisfied by paying respects at the Butsudan at home. And they're usually for someone closer, like your parents or grandparents who lived with you, and often, daily offerings of food is given, and some of the more sentimental ones greet their deceaseds with the common Japanese greetings for leaving and coming back home (ittekimasu and tadaima).

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Should I be worried about radioactive toner from Fukushima?

TIL: Japan has one of the highest cremation rates in the world with the country reporting a cremation rate of 99.97%.

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_cremation_rate > > /u/juicius:

>>One factor that could contribute is in Japan, most families maintain a family shrine at home called Butsudan. (仏壇) There can also be an extended family grave site caked Haka. (墓) While families also visit Haka, a lot of the sentimental attachment one might have for as traditional gravesite is satisfied by paying respects at the Butsudan at home. And they're usually for someone closer, like your parents or grandparents who lived with you, and often, daily offerings of food is given, and some of the more sentimental ones greet their deceaseds with the common Japanese greetings for leaving and coming back home (ittekimasu and tadaima).

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Been done already

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Tsundoku, the Japanese word for buying books you don't read should be entered into the English language

http://www.openculture.com/2018/07/tsundoku.html

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For those of you (like me) who had no fucking idea what a "catering pack" might be, here you go: https://www.shutterstock.com/search/catering+pack

Must be hard to drink out of them, but OP did say he had a drinking problem...

Sadly that's not the case anymore

>July 16: YouTube api features are back but mp4 <video> is replaced with the standard YT video embed. HookTube is now effectively just a light-weight version of youtube and useless to the 90% of you primarily concerned with denying Google data and seeing videos blocked by your governments.

and a few months later the project went belly up.

> .....HookTube will remain operational in the present state for those who only needed it for performance reasons. See you in the next project.
>
>......
>
>rest in pieces

&#x200B;

https://hooktube.com/changelog

Lots of the trolls (maybe all?) are in the Tokyo group that has been around for a while now.

Someone got booted and just kept re-joining from the link. A while later it got disabled and the reddit post disabled and a bunch more of people got removed.

Then they tried to go full lockdown and booted anyone that seemed associated with the trolling or invited anyone that appeared to be associated they got paranoid about who could be involved. Hadn't posted in past 24 hours? Kicked! Showed support or friendly with some trolls? Kicked!

Hilarious thing about the trolling isn't it wasn't anything crazy like spamming or posting NSFW things, but people just talking shit. With the "Line Notify" thing now I can't wait to see what sort of stuff people start doing with trolling group chats until LINE finally puts in some admin controls for chat ownership and permissions.

If you wanna have fun though with some people and/or groups go take a look at this: https://ifttt.com/line

It actually has a lot of cool stuff as well - but so much opportunity for abuse.

maybe not the same guy, but this dude on ridewithgps has posted some big ones around Ibaraki, and IIRC he generally avoids really terrible roads for cycling. (I also used to work on an experiment with him and he would deadass come to our collaboration parties in full kit.)

Typical try-hard comment, you're trying to multiply half by zero and act like you're being useful.

Go fuck yourself. If you want to do actual pizza math here's a calculator: https://www.omnicalculator.com/food/pizza

Spoiler: Japan pizza sizes are fucked and you don't get value for a bigger pie. Time to delete your account.

>9 different spelling and the distribution isn't remotely uniform.

>It's a similar story for other words with large numbers of homonyms.

>Christ, did you not think to do the slightest bit of research before sharing this ingenious idea of yours?

The distribution isn't even, no, but there's still less ambiguity. Admittedly there are 21 かうしゃうs, but as I said above, how many of those are actually words people use as opposed to words like "macarize" or "cepacious"?

>唐代 isn't even a proper word; you won't find it listed in any dictionary.

A-hem.

>And why on earth are you relying on your IME to tell you what is and what isn't correct Japanese? Use a fucking dictionary.

What's that file that tells my IME what kanji sequences exist for a given kana sequence called? Oh, right, a dictionary!

EDIT: And also, eight words with the same pronunciation isn't that many. The English word /raɪt/ corresponds to four written forms, right, write, rite, and wright. Right, furthermore, has at least three different senses: right as in correct, right as in human rights, and right as in the direction. Of the first two, one's an adjective and one's a noun (even if their senses are sorta, kinda related) and the third one could, I think, be deemed an unrelated sense. That's seven distinct English words that all sound like /raɪt/, which is admittedly one less than eight, and all fairly solidly within the 'core' of the language (i.e. what you'd expect a middle schooler to understand). Yet do you ever have trouble telling which sense is meant when someone's speaking?

I wish. No, it's just a really high set price. You also can't just use a suica-type card to get on and off whenever you please unless you live in London. The rest of us have to buy paper tickets for the trip in advance and put them through a ticket gate like a caveman. The prices are supposed to be cheaper if you buy them weeks/months in advance, but it's never actually the case. Fuck you, thetrainline.com and your nonsense &quot;I book in advance. I am train&quot; catchphrase. What the fuck is that even supposed to be, engrish? Didn't this country invent the fucking English language? WHY?

Anyway, the trains are always late, aren't terribly fast, and buying tickets is overly complicated. and there's always somebody sitting in your reserved seat because nobody gives a fuck. Busses are pretty much the same.

I didn’t know that he’s actually still active and all..

Showing his home’s temp in Fahrenheit cracked me up. Showing some real love to the U.S and A lol https://www.hellotalk.com/m/rQMDqTWcW1HTZD==?id=W3DjRON

I need to step up my copy game lol

Is there a Japanese toothpaste brand that does not contain sodium laureth sulfate?

> Does anyone know a Japanese toothpaste brand that does not contain the foaming agent sodium laureth sulfate (ラウレス硫酸ナトリウム in Japanese)? I'm looking for one without it. > > I know some smart-alec is going to tell me to read the ingredients labels of every toothpaste in the store. Trust me, if no one gives me a good answer, I will. > > gendough:

>>Pax / パックス makes a whole bunch without SLS and they're relatively common. An example here.

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Some of the text can be read for free here: https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B096BM8KVN

TBH the man doesn't seem to be all that interesting. 1000 words in and he was still describing his transit to his apartment from the airport in very painstakingly boring details. And mixing up "Hibarigaoka" with "Hikarigaoka"...seriously, what kind of joke business is his company running if they can't bother to tell him what train line he's to get off when they tell him where to go?

This book captures the quintessence of the dancing monkey memoir. It even refers to a monkey teacher in the first ten pages. Even though it claims to be fictional, I'm sure it has to be based on at least one true story.

I need to step up my copy game lol

Looking for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Japanese)

> Hi, I'm looking for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone written in Japanese romaji. I found a Japanese version online here but I scrolled down to the reviews and someone thankfully had taken pictures of the book. It turns out the words are written in furigana/kanji, which I do NOT want. > > Can someone link me to the romaji version? Thanks!

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> Looking for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Japanese)

> Hi, I'm looking for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone written in Japanese romaji. I found a Japanese version online here but I scrolled down to the reviews and someone thankfully had taken pictures of the book. It turns out the words are written in furigana/kanji, which I do NOT want.

>Can someone link me to the romaji version? Thanks!

I need this job to support my Ozeki One-Copy habit

Hammocking in Tokyo?

> Do people put up personal hammocks and hang out in them in public parks in Tokyo? (Is it even legal?) I'm a student in Minneapolis and this is really common around campus (when it's not freezing). I'm talking about single-person, tree-safe hammocks from brands like Eno, for example. I will be studying abroad starting in April and am debating bringing my hammock. Also just curious. Thank you! > > /u/GreatCanadianBacon:

>>People here are pretty protective of the trees (which I appreciate). I have a hammock, and use it all the time. But I got myself one of those little collapsible hammock supports that I can just carry around in a bag wherever I want to go. You can find them on Amazon for pretty cheap. (e.g. one of these https://www.amazon.co.jp/CAPTAIN-STAG-%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A3%E3%83%97%E3%83%86%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%83%E3%82%B0-UD-2005-%E3%82%B9%E3%83%81%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%9D%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%8F%E3%83%B3%E3%83%A2%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E7%94%A8%E...) > > > /u/spykid:

>>>That's a weird link > > > > /u/GreatCanadianBacon:

>>>>Is it not working? Or you mean just how it's formatted? I just copy pasted from browser lol. > > > > > /u/spykid:

>>>>>It works, I just don't live in Japan or browse Japanese Amazon so maybe that's why it looks weird to me.

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Work your way through Genki 1 and 2.

You won't be prepared at all no matter what you do, but this will give you a nice foundation. Also remember your pronunciation and cadence will be utter shit until you spend an appreciable amount of time around natives.

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In my personal opinion, understanding Hitoshi Matsumoto's Documental show is the highest form of learning Japanese. Season 3 has just been released on Amazon Prime (in the U.S.)

https://www.amazon.com/An-Exchange-of-Tricks/dp/B07SZ9SP5J/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=documental&amp;qid=1561502380&amp;s=instant-video&amp;sr=1-1

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Yes, they can be detained for 23 day periods, which can be renewed relatively easily if there is an ongoing investigation. I've read this book: https://www.amazon.com/Japanese-Way-Justice-Prosecuting-Studies/dp/019511986X

It talks about the Japanese justice system (comparing it to the US) and pros and cons.

I read it and it think very highly of what the Japanese justice system accomplishes, it's a very different approach than the US and I think the US could learn a lot from that system. At the same time, there are a lot of US culture virtues that'd really get in the way of implementation of some key features.

Refusal to acknowledge Ainu/Okinawan culture... not entirely sure I understand what you are talking about, but also pretty sure I don't care. Most conflict between the main gov't and Okinawa has centered on the US's poor manners as guests on the island and/or the forced occupation of the island under US law for quite a while. It's really not a whole lot different than what I understand of the US forcing it's way into control of Hawaii. Ultimately, from what I have followed of the matter, I get the impression that the main Japanese gov't does make an Ernest effort to rectify the situation, but the US is an ass and doesn't make a genuine effort to move.

Discrimination against Zainichi Koreans... this is a can of worms, but at the same time if the Koreans don't naturalize then I blame them for not naturalizing. If you embrace the culture and demonstrate genuine interest in their way of doing things most welcome you. Zainichi Koreans refusal to naturalize is kind of a big 'fuck you' in that regard.

外z i need ur halp; I Wani'd when I should have Kani'd.

Baby led weaning with an infant at restaurants in Japan

> We've been doing BLW with our daughter since we was 6 months old (she's now 7.5 months) - she's a ferocious eater and eats what we eat, is open to all foods, and has been exposed to all allergens. We prepare all her table foods right now and has her participate in meals with us. We will be visiting Tokyo next month and she will be a skilled eater by then, but inevitably a self-feeding baby makes a mess. How open will restaurants be to our infant having a seat at the table and eating on her own? Inevitably she will make a mess and drop some food on the floor (though she never throws it intentionally), will this be rude/a nuisance to the restaurant? When we eat at home we omit seasoning to reduce the sodium intake, will it be rude to ask restaurants to prepare her food without salt? We'll be traveling and bringing her high chair that fastens to the table (https://www.amazon.com/Inglesina-Table-Chair-Dining-Black/dp/B00J8NLC5C/ref=sr_1_1_sspa) > One last thing, will it be difficult to dine out with a 8 month old? Do restaurants take reservations or will we be waiting in line with her? We do want to make sure we can stick to her nap/bedtime schedule and not have her out too late. > > /u/sendtojapan:

>>> How open will restaurants be to our infant having a seat at the table and eating on her own? Inevitably she will make a mess and drop some food on the floor (though she never throws it intentionally) >> >>How open are restaurants back home to your baby dropping food on the floor?

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&quot;For her pleasure&quot;

Double-ended for twice the fun!!

You, my friend, need to get introduced to Boyé Lafayette De Mente: bachelor extraordinaire and author of extensive writings extolling the virtues of the oriental and her sensual ways.