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aka, beating Momus to the punch. ;-) Met any number of Japanese folks through UCLA and UCI, and for the most part great people all.

Search: Jesus H., where to begin. A nation that produced both Hokusai and Pocky, how perfect.

Destroy: all the hardcore nationalists that continue to ply a warped view of World War II and the period before it. Frightening.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh yeah, and Sanrio = classic, natch. Though I was SCARED IN MY SOUL when I saw that there is in fact an officially marketed Hello Kitty dildo. EEK!

http://www.public. coe.edu/~aaweinma/bb34.htm

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yukio Mishimura, more ladies would want to commit suicide than sleep with him, or so I heard.

Pokemon, Transformers, Casio, Corniche Camomile, Urusei Yatsura, Anime...I like Japan!

― jel, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have a love-hate relationship with Japan (and its inhabitants). This october I'll be enrolling in Japanese I for the second time.

Search everything and try to embrace it. Japan ist rad.

― nathalie, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Urusei Yatsura... hope you ain't talking about the band! :-) Search Fushitsusha, doorayaki, Wild Zero, yookan, ocha, Boredomsn, revolving sushi bars, Gas Panic... not really search for Bikuri Sushi which is just round the corner from Gas Panic. Search uni! Search Hysteric Glamour. Search shinkansen. Search... ah hell everything. Search taxis. Search underground. Search... someone stop me.

― nathalie, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like sushi, but otherwise I'm not that keen on Japanese food, so unfortunately I have to turn my back on this thread, because I only talk in terms of what each nation has to offer in terms of food and booze.

― Ally, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Destroy: Round-Eyes Who Embrace Japan With A Twee Sense Of "Aren't They Quaint And Backwards?" Irony. You know who you are.

― JM, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Japan itself -- I have no quarrel with, although the food blows.

― JM, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Points to Japan for having some of the prettiest, most entertaining food I've ever seen.

Points away for Pokemon. HOW can anyone call that good?

I know no Japanese people. Only Chinese, and that's a different...what's the cliche I'm looking for, and why did "ball of fish" come to mind?

― Lyra, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

japan is wank because indie kids like it. I know one Japanese guy and he's got a Civic Coupe with a big fuck-off Wings West bodykit and his stereo goes so loud it shook his spoiler off.

― Greg, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Japan is cool because all the wrestlers there have this certain gland in their throat that allows them to spew green mist.

― Kris, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Japan has a very interesting history...shame about all that WW2 business though. Oh, and the Japanese are computer game GODS. That doesn't include Sony though, who, along with their Playstations are RUBBISH.

― DG, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Japanese fecal porn = DUD. (unless yer into that sorta [nasty] thing, I suppose)

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Do you understand, Mr. Ohira? Do you understand?

― Joe, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pokémon 3: the Spell of the Unown is the greatest move evah made (that I have given a good review to this year)

― mark s, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

To Joe: Ha ha ha ha ha...no.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jimmy the Mod has become my new personal hero.

I like the Japanese language.

― Ally, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

> Japan is cool because all the wrestlers there have this certain gland in their throat that allows them to spew green mist.

What would that make Gene Simmons (and his spewing of red blood)?

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like Japan. But my mommy and daddy who grew up in Korea during the Japanese-occupation have different feelings though.

― Phil-Two, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like 'Gentlemen Take Polaroids' but 'Tin Drum' is the all-time classic

― dave q, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pokemon is good Lyra because as I said on the Potter thread it tackles issues of man's relationship with and exploitation of nature and exploitation of himself and competitiveness and it does so on both a content-level and a meta-level AND it's a kewl game.

― Tom, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I find it telling that this is the only one of the UN threads to have the definite article. It's like 'THE Japanese' - they are one Borg-like mind. I only know about Japan through C5 documentaries, Haruki Marakami novels and a night in Osaka airport hotel, so I make no value judgement about this.

― Nick, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

OK - so I missed 'THE English'.

― Nick, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tom just likes to coo over Pikachu.

― Ally, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ten years pass...

This book keeps getting its release date pushed. It has been perpetually available in two months for about two years now.

http://www.amazon.com/City-Refuge-Kenzo-Kitakata/dp/1934287121/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1298304815&sr=1-4

― calstars, Sunday, 27 May 2012 17:24 (thirteen years ago)

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2567539/images/kenzo.jpg

― calstars, Sunday, 27 May 2012 17:33 (thirteen years ago)

five months pass...

Is there a Japanese language thread? I have a question for someone who speaks good-to-excellent Japanese. Steve Shasta, others?

― ljubljana, Saturday, 27 October 2012 16:48 (thirteen years ago)

My wife is Japanese, what's your question?

― calstars, Saturday, 27 October 2012 18:04 (thirteen years ago)

i was just wondering if there was a japanese language thread

― toto coolio (clouds), Saturday, 27 October 2012 18:12 (thirteen years ago)

does anyone know of a good 日本語 reader for someone who is still has a pretty basic grasp of vocab but not too much (a little over 200) kanji?

― toto coolio (clouds), Saturday, 27 October 2012 18:52 (thirteen years ago)

Calstars, or anyone else with the inclination, can you/your wife explain the difference between 'they' meaning a group of people and 'they' meaning a few people within the group? I don't even know what the respective words are, but I'm told they exist, and I need to understand the difference for a research project. If there are any nice clear illustrative situations that would show me the difference, that would be fantastic...

― ljubljana, Saturday, 27 October 2012 19:45 (thirteen years ago)

She says 'karera' refers to a smaller number of people, while 'kareratachi' refers to a larger group.

― calstars, Saturday, 27 October 2012 21:07 (thirteen years ago)

I was told there was a word for a few people within a larger group. Is that 'karera'? Or does karera just refer to a small group?

― ljubljana, Saturday, 27 October 2012 22:32 (thirteen years ago)

one month passes...

Looks like an awesome exhibit at MOMA about art from the 60s and 70s

http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2012/tokyo/

― calstars, Sunday, 23 December 2012 15:01 (thirteen years ago)

three months pass...

anyone know of a good book on the early history of japan? it doesn't have to cover all periods — just any history will do.

― 君ちゃん (clouds), Saturday, 30 March 2013 13:24 (thirteen years ago)

two months pass...

Just got back from Nippon and picked these up.

http://i.imgur.com/UOt2bdI.jpg

Also David Lee Roth was on the flight back to New York.

― More Than a Century With the Polaris Emblem (calstars), Friday, 7 June 2013 01:23 (twelve years ago)

Exited a mall and there was this giant robot walking around

http://i.imgur.com/hb5pu9G.jpg

― More Than a Century With the Polaris Emblem (calstars), Friday, 7 June 2013 01:26 (twelve years ago)

Escaped in this taxi

http://i.imgur.com/Wz8SIgg.jpg

― More Than a Century With the Polaris Emblem (calstars), Friday, 7 June 2013 01:28 (twelve years ago)

The available intoxicants were available in smaller and smaller portions

http://i.imgur.com/5UZFvkb.jpg

― More Than a Century With the Polaris Emblem (calstars), Friday, 7 June 2013 01:31 (twelve years ago)

Not sure about this one

http://i.imgur.com/ysDqXSi.jpg

― More Than a Century With the Polaris Emblem (calstars), Friday, 7 June 2013 01:34 (twelve years ago)

eight months pass...

http://www.thedatereport.com/dating/valentines-day/girls-in-japan-are-hiding-their-own-menstrual-blood-in-valentines-day-chocolates/

― ian, Monday, 10 February 2014 04:20 (twelve years ago)

three months pass...

http://www.juxtapoz.com/current/drawings-of-men-farting-from-the-japanese-edo-period-1603-1868

― ∞, Monday, 9 June 2014 22:28 (eleven years ago)

three years pass...

Anyone recommend a good history of ancient-medieval Japan?

If it were an attractive tome and not just text thatd be a bonus

― quet inn tarnation (darraghmac), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 11:22 (eight years ago)

why does it have to be attractive to you?

― 龜, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 11:29 (eight years ago)

Not tome, toher rather

― quet inn tarnation (darraghmac), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 11:44 (eight years ago)

Well, there's always the Nihongi, if you want to start with Amaterasu and go from there.
Or Bill Wurtz's enchanting effort

― attention vampire (MatthewK), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 12:40 (eight years ago)

yeah, do you mean classical japanese books on that topic or modern day academic studies on that period?

if it's the latter, you're going to get basic information on anything ancient or medieval at best and dodgy details/assumptions/theories at worst because there isn't a lot to go by

having said that, assuming no japanese language knowledge, examples of some of the latter:

a history of japan to 1334 by george sansom

a history of japan by conrad totman

japan: from prehistory to modern times by john whitney hall

if you are interested in japanese thought from that time, which is another but related question, there are other sets of books for that

― i n f i n i t y (∞), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 18:25 (eight years ago)

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