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Er beauty is skin deep.... And yeah if you're fat you're probably ugly. (By the way, just because you're skinny doesn't mean you're beautiful either.) Of course people have different ideas about the amount of weight one needs to be considered fat, but um, sorry, coming back from a year in Japan, mos...

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As I said, for most people, all you really need to do is to be able to read the kanji. I suspect that a lot of people will pass lvl 2 and many pre lvl 1 if they don't have to worry about the writing part. Here I am guessing: but If you can read the basic set of 1945 kanji your Japanese vocabulary wi...

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訂正できなくもないけどめんどいからしないよ、

久しぶりにこのサイトを見てます、最近日本に住んでいたので利用する必要がなかったのですがまたNYに戻ることになったのでまた多分（ちょいと非合法ですが）お世話になるでしょう。

みなさんよろしく、ではでは。

PS
For Visas to Japan take a quick look at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs site for the Japanese Government.

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"kanben" 勘弁（かんべん）してよ I think for most people, you just want to work on Listening, Speaking, and Reading. That alone should make learning Japanese a lot easier since you won't need to memorize how to write a lot of kanji (but you do need to be able to recognize them). On a total side note: ...

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Gah, double post.

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I agree that knowing the language and culture help enhance the experience. If you don't know then it's best to watch shows that are driven by the main plot line or shows that have universal themes, like love. I saw an Indian movie about a wedding (Monsoon Wedding) and I know that I didn't get a lot ...

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Tokumei Kakaricho Tadano Hitoshi has some nudity but it's primarily plot driven. Dunno if it's subtitled though.

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Eh, I'm gonna troll a bit. Frankly, the Chinese government's track record since 1949 is crappy. Great Leap Forward = oh yes let's starve over 20 million people Cultural Revolution = oh yeah let's go destroy countless cultural treasures and kill 1million people to boot while plunging the country into...

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Darn it, the ending to this series was weak. (Not gonna spoil the ending for those who didn't watch the end since you should still watch it.) Ok, but beside that this was one excellent asadora. I guess in a sense, what was important was the journey and not the destination. I've been a fan of rakugo ...

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On the topic of how Japanese view African Americans there is the stereotypical image that is also prevalent in Japan --- pro good at athletics, music; con violent and thuggish. I'm guessing that a lot of people get this information from movies, music videos, and the news (like almost anywhere else i...

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Competition is good. If it (whatever the product is) can't survive the competition it's second rate and should go away anyway. My friend in Japan loves 24. I think she watches it in English. I believe that it is possible to watch the show in the original language (whatever it may be) if you switch t...

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That actually didn't make sense to me. You're basically getting a second hand look of Japan via Western eyes rather than getting a feel for the original with your own eyes. How can you NOT know what shows to watch if you've been to Japan and if you are browsing this forum? Just check the recommended...

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The biggest problem with "traditions" is that a lot of them are often local and not necessarily national. Even in the US, I know that wedding traditions in the South are often quite different from the ones in the Northeast and California has some wacky ideas (I don't know if they have beco...

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Well I just finished watching episode 2 last night and I must say that now I am going to watch to the end of this show. Amami Yuki despite being almost 40 is just too damn adorable. (I know it's weird using that word in her case, but I guess that just proves that she can act.) I'm wondering how it w...

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I watched the first episode of this show and I think I will continue to watch it. I just want to see where the story goes.

Oh and Yukawa Kazuhiko (the script writer for this show and Queen's Classroom, GTO, Majo no Jouken, etc) is a guy.

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There's a phrase in Japanese that goes, "shitashiki naka nimo reigi ari." Which roughly translates to: "even among friends there is decorum." On certain occasions being formal makes it better, or makes it =feel= more meaningful. You can say "Grats!" to a couple when the...

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I probably ought to site my sources on these things, so that people don't think I'm making up these numbers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bmi30chart.png Keep in mind that: BMI over 30 is obese. BMI between 25 and 29 is overweight. BMI 18.5-25 is normal weight. BMI under 18.5 is skinny. BMI = k...

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Try Tiger & Dragon for gang and comedy.

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2. エラいところに嫁いでしまった！ (Erai Tokoro ni Yomeide Shimatta! )
Time: Thursday 9pm

That verb is read as "totsuide shimatta!"

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There are many dialects in Japan and recently you do see more of them in various places. Take for example Nodame Canterbile. Nodame when she is stressed or back home with her parents speaks with a light Kyushu dialect. Her later teacher Eto speaks with an exaggerated Osaka dialect. Most characters s...

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Well, to be fair, I would like to say that there are probably more attractive women in Japan and Korea than in the United States (or Europe) simply from the obesity factor. US population = over 30% are fat UK population = over 20% are fat European population = around 12% are fat (depends on country)...

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The key to learning any language is in memorizing the vocabulary. The grammer is usually not the limiting factor, especially since people break grammatical rules when speaking anyway. Considering that an average speaker of English knows at least 40,000 words (the English language has at least 500,00...

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I think there was a poll at one point and Yamato / 宇宙戦艦ヤマト's theme song came out to be the favorite anime song in Japan. ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlC9Y6R18oo&mode=related&search= Personally I don't have a favorite. Edit: Oh yeah I forgot to mention that Cutie Honey (Koda Kumi's version)...

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For most families, it would be a Butsudan. Kamidana is where you place your household god (you need to provide food for the god everyday). This exists in most homes. Dead ancestors are placed in the Butsudan, where the dead have become Buddhas. (This is the place where you burn incense, and offer fo...

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If you want a college level textbook you can try, A Brief History of Japanese Civilization by Conrad Schirokauer. It's been updated recently.

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On a different note, if you're looking to use the word Heaven in the Christian sense of the term, the place you go after you die, you might as well just say Hebun or Hevun. In Shinto when people die, there is no Heaven nor Hell. There is only the underworld: Yomi no kuni. In Buddhism there was no He...

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I guess in the US and in Japan, gangsters and gangster wannabes are common in the big cities. But it is the low ranking gangsters that are very flamboyant and noticable. The big shots wearing nice suits and clothes are often harder to tell. By the way, I don't know of any personally :p Most people d...

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Depends on what you define as incest. I believe that it is legal (though not done often) to marry your 1st cousin in the US and in Japan. And I know that this doesn't happen in China or in Korea because that's considered incest. As for anything closer than that, in most societies it is considered ta...

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Oh man is this a troll thread? Anyway here's my 2 cents. Unless you're fluent in both Japanese and Korean, I'm not really going to take your opinion seriously. One really needs to know the language to appreciate these mediums, particularly in popular culture and entertainment. So as someone is fluen...

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The far left is basically Communism. If you go to the far right you get Fascists and Nazis. So National Socialism (ie the Nazis, the English translation of the word German =NA=tional So=ZI=alismus) is actually on the far right. The far left promises a united society in the sense that all the workers...

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There's a very simple way to understand why there are more fanboys/fangirls on D-addicts ratio wise, than the average viewer in Japan. Simply put, old people do not use bittorrents, and thus d-addicts, that much. Whereas a 60 year old grandmother can turn on the TV and watch. Almost by definition yo...

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Looking at the charts I realized that I skipped MY Boss My Heroes of the top 3. Guess I will look into it.

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At least 2 species have recovered for some minor hunting. The stats were listed in the previous page. If people want to eat those 2 species, let them.

No logical argument has come forward to make me change my opinion on this.

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This is actually a very good insight. Yes, you are correct that the yakuza organizations are one of the more international organizations in Japan. You are also correct in that the yakuza do have connections with the far right. Although this does seem weird, my guess for this is that (a) the yakuza c...

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People in Japan are more or less at the correct weight. It's us in America that are fat. Losing weight is probably a good thing. :p

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Whoa let's get some facts in first. It was the Europeans and the Americans that more or less hunted the whales to extinction in the 19th century. Why the heck were European and American whaling boats in the eastern Pacific and the Indian Ocean in the 19th century? They more or less hunted the ones i...

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I'm glad that you brought up Faulker. I think Japanese and Southerners probably can understand each other's sentiments relatively well. We both know that the cause was bad: building an empire in Asia and fighting for slavery. But home is still your home, you can't help but love it. It's not the easi...

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Ah ok, that's cool. Well, I hope you had a good time in Japan.

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It's

We are (I am) also very happy that you enjoyed yourself. We (I) hope that you find your path for the future after prayers to Jehovah.

Are you a Jehovah's Witness?

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People in Japan are not racist towards people in China. They can't be, because they are of the same race. (By most definition of race: I'm talking skin color.) Now if you want to say that people in Japan feel that their country is better than another country, say China. Then sure. I'll buy that argu...

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If you don't want to see a character turn carebear, then watch Koumyou ga tsuji. Nobunaga was one person who was never carebear.

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I know this is shallow, but I would prefer to marry a woman who is shorter than I am (even when wearing heels).

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I don't think racisim will be the main issue (if you don't look Japanese, then that means there will be niche roles for you). There will be 2 big obstacles though. You will need patience. (Not many roles for explicitly non-Japanese actors in most Japanese shows. Also don't forget that it's not easy ...

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Ah yeah! Good point pokute, that's definitely true. If you live in the city and still have to own to car, then your spending on things like rent and car and gas just skyrockets. I bet even in the suburbs, rents are not that much cheaper. (One of the few benefits of living in Manhattan and central To...

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lol, if it's the same apartment as Yamada Naoko's I'll just have to laugh. On another note, keep in mind that $50,000 per year is the average median household income in the US. Yes Household. That means in many cases, two people are working to make $50,000 for the family. The good news is that, for ...

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Hmm, maybe I'm in the minority but I don't really care one way or the other because I consider all pop, whether American, British, Japanese, or whatever as basically part of mass culture. It's all fundamentally the same. None of these are traditional. It's not like J-rock or J-music uses the shakuha...

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lol, I never thought of that connection between Nakama and Namase.

Oh wait what about Tokyo Wankei, was Namase in that one too? (I never saw that series.)

But dang, unlike Aoi, this one has a lot more cute women.

Nou hime, Chiyo and Hosokawa Gracia, not so sure about Korin.

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Bumping this post again: Anyone willing to upload 愛の劇場『吾輩は主婦である』 (Theater of love: "I am a housewife") Airing on TBS: May 22nd, 13:00. Midday drama series by Kudo Kankuro and Isoyama Akira (duo that did IWGP, Kisarazu Cat's Eye, Manhattan Love Story, Tiger and Dragon) Cast: Saito Yuki, Oik...

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I didn't see a thread for this series, so I decided to start one.

Is anyone watching this year's Taiga's Drama?

I recommend it!

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You might want to try Queen's Classroom. But you really ought to go here and browse:

http://www.d-addicts.com/forum/viewtopic_10409.htm

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Hey if you can speak, listen, and read Japanese go for it! You're still young, I see no reason why you shouldn't give it a go if you're serious.

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Nande imamade anata wo suki ni naranakattanodaro

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I'm not saying that borders are invalid. I'm just pointing out that the system we use today, of getting visas and passports to go from one country to another is a very recent system (basically after WW2, 1945). Borders have been around for ages, but requiring everyone to get visas and passports is o...

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For those of you that use the illegal immigrants are breaking the law argument: While I am sympathetic to this line of argument, I also don't buy it completely. We ought to consider the possibility that the law itself might be wrong. Remember that there were no passports or laws about entering the U...

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1) Whoever thinks 4.5% unemployment is high in the US doesn't understand economics. 4.5% unemployment is low. Very low. Anything lower and we're asking for inflation to bust out. (Heck it seems that inflation is already starting up again...) There's always going to be around 5% unemployment because ...

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This debate on immigration is a rehash of old debates. When the Irish, Italians, Jews, Poles, Chinese, Japanese, etc came in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, there was all this racist talk of America for Americans and that immigrants should get out. Immigration is fine. In fact even ill...

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Japan and the UK are driving on the correct side of the road. The countries driving on the right are driving on the wrong side of the road. :P If you go back to Roman times people walked on the left. In Edo Japan people walked on the left. This is because if you walk on the left you can draw your sw...

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I'm not sure if Maya said that power and money is the way to happiness. However, I do know that it's really hard to be happy without money. You don't have to be stinking rich, but without money to go on vacations when you want, or to afford to the niceties of life most people will not be happy. PS A...

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I've seen bits and pieces of this drama and I have read the all the manga that was out and available last summer when I was in Japan. I think the message of the manga/show is important. !!!Schooling is actually pretty damn important!!! Society is not fair. If you were not born rich, if you do not ha...

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このスレもいろんな人が来てだんだん盛り上がって来ました。しかも、日本語で書き込む人が増えて来たので、なんか嬉しいです。（なんでですかね？本来はどうでもいいことのような気がしますが。）

さて今期は皆さんどの番組をチェックしているのでしょうか？ちょっと興味があります。

私はまたテレ朝の金曜番組（「てるてる明日」）とNHKの「功名が辻」とを引き続いてみてます。とにかく舘ひろしの信長公が（ちょっと年だけど）強烈で妙なリアリティーを感じてしまうので。また山内家からの視点の物語のほうが（ドラマだけど）織田・豊臣・徳川の移り変わりを知るのにピッタリなのかなーとも思ってます。

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Yeah I don't understand that bit with Sawamura Ikki either. He's from Kagoshima according to the Japanese websites. :P I generally like Kimura Tae, but right now of all the characters in the show she's grating on me the most. The rest are great. Kurokawa Tomoka I think it doing a good job depicting ...

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Here goes episode 2: Manju kowai! This episode is one of my favorites since it has such a simple straightforward main story and a lot of side stories. The rakugo story here is that of a man who pretends that he is afraid of manju (sweet buns) to sucker his friends to give him the buns for free. When...

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Yeah this is a great series. I managed to get a good quality subtitled version so I am going to try and show it to other people. I think your character assessments are spot on Jaycee, but my favorite is probably Ucchie. The randomness of that guy is just too much. Plus I loved that secret at the end...

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So, Jaycee05 do you feel that a person will become a better human being through education? :P I really do hope that education has that kind of a transformative effect on people. (Rather than simply as a means to get a better job.) Anyway, I watched the last episode again. It really is a good series....

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I agree with 1 koku = amount of rice necessary to feed 1 man for 1 year. But I don't think it was 1 ryo = 4 koku. I'm more inclined to go with 1 ryo = 1 koku. Easiest place I can think of for more info is from the opening narratiion of episode 5 of Komyo ga tsuji. Another place is here http://ja.wik...

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When you say " Tokio" do you mean "Tokyo" or is it a place that actually exists in Japan by that name Tokyo was actually "Tokio" (時男) back in old historical documents. --- groink Tokyo is and was 東京 (well it used to be Edo 江戸until 1868) Tokio was the old way to spell 東...

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Yup you can get the translatons here http://www.d-addicts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16181&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=255 and here http://www.d-addicts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16181&start=270 But I have no idea how to turn these into soft or hard subs so anyone who wants to do...

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I looked but I didn't find a thread for this great series, so I decided to start one. Anyway I believe that this show is one of the few shows in which analysis can really benefit people's enjoyment of the show. The basic format of the show is to tell a Rakugo story (a funny story from the Edo period...

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There seems to be a ton of lawyer shows this season. And I don't get that. Japanese law courts are fundamentally boring since they do not have juries.

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Yup, though there doesn't seem to be a seeder for the 1st part at the moment.

http://www.d-addicts.com/forum/torrents ... +all&sort=

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Younger Men aka Toshishita no Otoko is a series about older women with younger men.

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26 and 34 seem to be perfectly fine. That's a reasonable age difference. You should probably watch Younger Men (you can dl that right here).

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I watched the first episode and it's pretty damn cruel. And, I can sort of see where this show is headed. But to summarize, Inagaki Goro is a comedy writer for a TV variety show and he realizes that he's losing his edge for comedy. Just then he meets Murakami Tomoko and realizes that she's perfect f...

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Of course it matters. A 40 year old who claims to be in love with a 9 year old is nothing more than a criminal who has managed to manipulate the 9 year old to agree with the 40 year old.

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It looks like TV Asahi is continuing with the tradition of having weird/funky shows on Friday nights. After seeing the first episode, I think I might try to keep an eye out on this series.

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