Aspies For Freedom

Ah me and my better half (ooh cheeky ;p) are just loving modern Japan, especially in terms of popular culture/business >3


some of the history is good also.

Ian

:p

ooh, films with heavy japanese influence? you like Blade Runner, Bob?  even now I still see it as a realistic vision of mankinds future.

Ian

i got it on dvd, from HMV..no doubt you can pick it up too

Ian

It was £6 something if i remember correctly.

It's from 1982, yet it doesn't look dated at all

Ian

I was born in Tokyo but am not really interested in the culture. Those of you who are are just infatuated with the superficial aspects of it such as anime and don't really get the true aspects of it, I'm sorry to say.

What like "jigoku" ? :3 lol

I tend to like many aspects of Japanese Culture, Culinary, Historical, Modern..its all packed inside the smooth compact head of mine ;p

Ian

There are many historical Anime's anyway, and of course most of the more "realistic" anime is actually set in what i consider to be a (fairly) realistic interpretation of modern day Japan.

Ian

I used to be really into anime and Japanese culture when I was in my teens, but now I just watch East Asian films and read some books by East Asian authors these days.

I don't really like the Japanese as a whole. They're pretty arrogant and mean.

Many of them are but not all. My mother is from Japan and she can be very mean. When I was a kid and I first got glasses, my mother kept teasing saying that I looked like a cartoon character. She kept calling me "manga chan", and saying "manga mitai nei".  That's one of the reasons I hate anime and manga to this day.

I'm quite fond of the corporatism in that country too :]

Would be interesting to work there, if only for a while. (I hear it gets boring ;p)

The Japanese word for suicide is "jisatsu". "Seppuku" or hara-kiri" is not acceptable in this case as it was not done in the ritual manner.

I took Japanese 1 this year- I'm looking for penpals to practice with, if anyone is interested?.....
I learned tons.  初めまして。私はアチナです。十六歳です。アメリカジン� �す。ドゾオよろしく。
きのは水曜日です。私は本を読んで、イスクリムを食べて� �およぎました。
Apologies if any of the wrong kanji or kana appear.  My computer program automatically converts any hiragana I write to kanji or katakana most of the time, and sometimes it makes mistakes.  I hope the symbols show up, but if not, here's the romaji version: Hajimemashite.  Watashi wa Achina (I usually spell my name Atina when I write it in katakana, but my computer automatically changes it to Achina) desu.  Juu roku sai desu.  Amerikajin desu.  Dozoo yoroshiku.
Kino wa suiyoobi desu.  Watashi wa hon wo yonde, isu kurimu wo tabete, oyogimashita.
Which should translate, if I did it correctly, to:  Hello.  I'm Athene.  I'm 16.  I'm American.  Please take care of me (traditional Japanese greeting).  Yesterday was Tuesday.  I read a book, ate ice cream, and swam.

So, basically I'm capable of very simple conversations, asking for directions, talking about my day, and asking someone on a date (we had a whole chapter on dating!  Seriously!)
Next year I'm taking Japanese 2; the high school I go to doesn't offer any further courses, so after that I'm going to the University for further lessons.  I expect to be fluent by the time I graduate from college, at which point I intend to go teach English to Japanese high school students for a year to make some quick money.  My sensei says they pay a LOT of money for native english speakers to teach.

うん、とてもおもしろいいですね。  I've been getting most of my robot-related news from http://www.pinktentacle.com/.  I was especially interested by this one:  http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/07/robot-sea-bream/  It's so real looking!

http://whatjapanthinks.com/  is also really interesting a lot of the time.  No robots there, though.