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On Japanese Probability
“I think the students might be busy after school, so perhaps they won’t come to our meeting. I’m not sure. But if that’s the case, we’ll have to cancel the meeting for today.” In English, this sentence means nobody really … Continue reading
Posted in Culture Shock, language, Uncategorized
Tagged communication, japan, japanese language
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Elvis in Nakasu
So this year I went back to catch a night of the Nakasu Festival. The festival is held in Fukuoka’s red-light district, full of host and hostess clubs and worse. During the festival, women from the community get together and … Continue reading
Ongakuyōbi: NikaSaya
NikaSaya is a side project from the Tennis Coats’ singer, Saya, and songwriter Nikaido Kazumi. One Summerheim is a gorgeous rainy-day record.
On Lenin’s Feet and the Taxi-Driving Buddha
If you visit Kyoto, you may stumble into a small home next door to a shrine and, as you’re looking for the shrine entrance, a woman may ask you for 500 yen and assure you that there is English being … Continue reading
Posted in language, Shrines, Temples and Ruins, Thinking, Uncategorized, Zen
Tagged buddhism, japan, Kyoto, Lenin
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Ongakuyōbi: Broken Little Sister
I’ve dealt with a lot of bands from the 1990′s, so I wanted to shift gears into more recent Japanese bands. Broken Little Sister got started in Yokohama in 2005, mixing a kind of My Bloody Valentine wall-of-noise with shoegaze, … Continue reading
Ongakuyōbi: Nobukazu Takemura
I can’t lie, Nobukazu Takemura is pretty hit or miss with me. A lot of his career is basically straight acid jazz, which isn’t my thing, but his roots are in hip hop, and his first performances were as a … Continue reading
