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Rural Japan Dispatch: NO joke...
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Live from a quaint rural valley surrounded by mountains. Tuesday, October 27. How many workers does it take to perform maintenance on a single Japanese pine tree at area Japanese junior high school? Bonus question: How long do they spend on the tree? Answer: 14. 7 to work hands-on, removing and manipulating individual needles. 7 to watch and make sure the other 7 don't muck it up. Bonus answer: about 1 hour per tree. Trees look nice though. October 27, 2009 at 8:32 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Rural Japan Dispatch: 2009.09
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Live from a quaint rural valley surrounded by mountains. Friday, September 18. There are a number of school refusers in my current school. A school refuser is one who, for whatever reason, refuses to come to school. We started the school year with 1. Now we have 5. We did have one boy who refused to come to school during sports festival and associated practices, but is back now. I wonder if my other school has many now? I remember we had only one as well last time I was there. Thursday, September 10.
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Rural Japan Dispatch: ノーメーク、ノーライフ No make, no life.
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Live from a quaint rural valley surrounded by mountains. Wednesday, October 14. ノーメーク、ノーライフ No make, no life. Yesterday during the 3rd year classes, the students were given much of the period to study for their midterms today on their own. In one class, I happened to spend most of the class just chatting with one of the girls Rio, as well as a few other students, but mostly Rio. No make' is kind of Japanese-English (和製英語) which means 'no make-up'). Right, I have no make-up on.'. Warm fuzzies. Awww.
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Rural Japan Dispatch: Kamemushi War!!!! カメムシ戦争
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Live from a quaint rural valley surrounded by mountains. Thursday, October 29. The cooler days are bringing an end to the spider and bee reign of terror on my life, but an unfortunate side effect of the shift in temperature is the rise of that foe unbeatable by conventional warfare,. While bees and spiders are easily killed without remorse and with little hassle (unless you like to keep the soles of your shoes clean, freak), death is the ultimate weapon of. That's what this is. An invasion. Subscribe to:...
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Rural Japan Dispatch: 2009.07
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Live from a quaint rural valley surrounded by mountains. Tuesday, July 14. You know you've been in Japan too long when. You know you've been in Japan too long when. A teacher remarks to the students that 'You should have no problem finishing your rice today, because there's seaweed! And you not only find absolutely nothing strange with this comment, you agree with it. You really really want to eat cold noodles for dinner. Zaru Soba YUM. Wednesday, July 8. I read through some materials provided by our pre...
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Rural Japan Dispatch: Changing directions
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Live from a quaint rural valley surrounded by mountains. Wednesday, October 7. Pardon the following boring blog-related post! I've started to reconsider my blog. A lot of times I don't know what to write because I'm too worried about audience, topic, etc. I leave a lot unwritten because it doesn't necessarily fit with my ideas of what this blog should be. I also hope to up my post count to at least 5-7 posts a week (not necessarily every day, any maybe not only one post per day.). Nambu, Tottori, Japan.
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Rural Japan Dispatch: 2009.11
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Live from a quaint rural valley surrounded by mountains. Thursday, November 19. President Obama's bow to the Japanese Emperor. I wanted to weigh in on the 'controversy' momentarily. 1 Bowing is a sign of respect, but in addition it is in many ways the 'Japanese handshake'. To bow to someone isn't to lessen your authority or power. Obama was probably just trying to be polite, and to participate in a Japanese cultural act as a symbol of cultural understanding. 2 While the angle of the bow. My job these days.
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Rural Japan Dispatch: 2009.08
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Live from a quaint rural valley surrounded by mountains. Thursday, August 27. This is almost another edition of 'You know you've been in Japan too long when.' but today I tackle the complex question of bowing. Most westerners know that bowing is something like the 'Japanese handshake'. Well, that is true, although the ACTUAL handshake is increasingly used in typical handshake situations, in keeping with the westernization of Japan. However, bowing has a broader scope than 'How Do You Do? Another situatio...
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Rural Japan Dispatch: President Obama's bow to the Japanese Emperor
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Live from a quaint rural valley surrounded by mountains. Thursday, November 19. President Obama's bow to the Japanese Emperor. I wanted to weigh in on the 'controversy' momentarily. 1 Bowing is a sign of respect, but in addition it is in many ways the 'Japanese handshake'. To bow to someone isn't to lessen your authority or power. Obama was probably just trying to be polite, and to participate in a Japanese cultural act as a symbol of cultural understanding. 2 While the angle of the bow. And i agree with...
