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Precise
Joined: 23 Mar 2007
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 Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 3:10 pm Post subject: I LOVE JAPAN! |
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I listen to JPop everyday and I am trying to learn Japanese. I can't wait to go to Japan!!! 
p.s. (I love Ayumi Hamasaki)  |
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southofreality
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
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Location: Tokyo
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| Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 3:16 pm Post subject: |
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Great
Once you get here, I give you three months, tops, before you run screaming for the airport and hop on a flight home.
No offense |
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Precise
Joined: 23 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 3:22 pm Post subject: |
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| why do you say that? |
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sethness
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
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Location: Hiroshima, Japan
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| Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 3:41 pm Post subject: |
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...Because Japan is like Sugar: fine and fun in small doses, but not good for a steady diet.
Examples: cutesy Kitty-chan ("hello kitty") kitsch. In small doses now and then,it's cute-- as are women in short skirts and high heels and high squeaky artificially girly voices, or girls in little donald-duck sailor suits. But repeat it ad infinitum, and ad-infinitum quickly becomes ad-nauseum. |
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Precise
Joined: 23 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 3:59 pm Post subject: |
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| sethness wrote: |
...Because Japan is like Sugar: fine and fun in small doses, but not good for a steady diet.
Examples: cutesy Kitty-chan ("hello kitty") kitsch. In small doses now and then,it's cute-- as are women in short skirts and high heels and high squeaky artificially girly voices, or girls in little donald-duck sailor suits. But repeat it ad infinitum, and ad-infinitum quickly becomes ad-nauseum. |
How long does it take for that gaijin awe and mystique-for-Japan fantasy to wear off, usually? |
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Khyron
Joined: 10 Mar 2006
Posts: 291
Location: Tokyo Metro City
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| Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 5:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Precise wrote: |
| sethness wrote: |
...Because Japan is like Sugar: fine and fun in small doses, but not good for a steady diet.
Examples: cutesy Kitty-chan ("hello kitty") kitsch. In small doses now and then,it's cute-- as are women in short skirts and high heels and high squeaky artificially girly voices, or girls in little donald-duck sailor suits. But repeat it ad infinitum, and ad-infinitum quickly becomes ad-nauseum. |
How long does it take for that gaijin awe and mystique-for-Japan fantasy to wear off, usually? |
3 days...
...or two years. I'm not sure on that one yet.
My first trip to Japan was 2 days and one night, in Fukuoka. Japan was awesome.
On my second trip, I arrived in Fukuoka again around 5pm. I had a wallet full of Korean won, and about 1500 yen left over from my previous trip. When I arrived in Fukuoka, the exchange counters were all closed, and none of my foreign bank cards would work anywhere that I tried. I spent my 1500 or so yen on a bowl of bibimbap and a beer from Uprising (a Reggae bar in Tenjin). Since I was too cheap to use my credit card at a hotel, I just walked around Tenjin/Canal City all night. Luckly, some Japanese guy was willing to share his bottle of wine with me in exchange for some English conversation. It wasn't all bad, but the image of Japan-as-Shangra-la was forever broken.
I still like it here, by the way. I recommend moving to Fukuoka. It has a cooler vibe than anywhere else in Japan does, IMO. Plus, you can easily run off to Pusan for a few days if you wanna check out Korea. It's a cool city to run around in. |
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G Cthulhu
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
Posts: 1373
Location: Way, way off course.
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| Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 7:28 pm Post subject: Re: I LOVE JAPAN! |
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| Precise wrote: |
p.s. (I love Ayumi Hamasaki) |
Why?! 
Seriously. She can't sing. She can't act. She's about as bright as a very not bright thing named Brightless McBrightynot. She has the personality of week old wet coffee grounds.
As far as I can tell, she is the perfect example of all that is wrong with the manufactured Jpop idol. |
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Neongene
Joined: 18 Dec 2006
Posts: 51
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| Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 7:44 pm Post subject: Re: I LOVE JAPAN! |
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