Comments on: On Bowling in Japan

By: denversun

denversun — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 13:11:44 +0000

Amazing how that works! I told people I do karate, but have been fortunate enough not to display any of my “skills” yet.

Good post, though. I like most of what you write about.

By: owwls

owwls — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 03:50:57 +0000

It’s almost like this entire post is about how I don’t know anything about bowling!

By: denversun

denversun — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 02:16:32 +0000

Since when is each square given three balls to throw?

By: On Wacky Japan (or: On Pretending to Have Fun in Japan) | This Japanese Life. | 生命を外面九天です

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 14:05:38 +0000

[...] if it looks like work. The Japanese put intense effort into their recreational activities (see: Bowling). People spend free time in Japan with stressful efforts or highly repetitive tasks. It’s spent [...]

By: On Roller Skating in Japan: Notes on One Year of Culture Shock | This Japanese Life. | 生命を外面九天です

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:47:41 +0000

[...] a tendency in Japanese culture to embrace hobbies in hardcore ways. That’s definitely seeped into my [...]

By: Blue Shoe

Blue Shoe — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 14:09:15 +0000

Nice post, man!

“Japanese people can get excited about their hobbies, given the culture’s embrace of give-it-your-all efforts and dismissal of anything less than 100 percent as laziness.”

I thought that sentence was a perfect summary and so, so true. That’s one element of Japanese culture that I’m really ambivalent about.

By: Travis

Travis — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 22:26:33 +0000

Nice Camper Van Beethoven reference :)

Also, Matsuzaka just had Tommy John surgery, so you won’t have to worry about him for awhile.

By: Claire

Claire — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 17:48:03 +0000

Ha, poor Eryk. Sometimes your life reads like a sitcom, and I love it.

By: ClubZee

ClubZee — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 17:17:34 +0000

I went to a PTA bowling event one time. Everyone was super casual about it – yeah, bowling, I go tokidoki. Then the personal shoes came out (the only shoes I have ever seen actually fit anyone while in Japan), and the ball bags, too.

One game in, and there were so many strikes it was starting to look like a New York City post office in the 70s.

By: Kaori

Kaori — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:42:24 +0000

This post is hilarious. Don’t know if it’s just my company but bowling is just as popular as karaoke when it comes to Nijikai. I’m not the greatest bowler and can barely make it past 100 but my co-workers are amazing! Some of them are so drunk they can barely walk straight and carry their bowling balls…but when they throw that sucker down the lane, it’s almost always a strike. I’m always baffled. Anyways, I really liked this post ;D