I lived in Japan for 3 months when I was 21. Extremely fascinating place. I'm not really into anime/manga or the like though. It is just like some kind of technological/imaginative wonderland.

Anyone like Japanese horror movies?  

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Athie

Athlynee, I love your avvy! Where did you get it and how did you get it up there?

Anyways, I haven't seen any Japanese horror movies but I heard they are a million times better than our horror movies!

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)

Prufrock,

Thank you!   I don't remember exactly where I got the avatar...just a lot of googling "Aerith", "Aeris", "Aerith avatar", "Aeris avatar"...took a long time.  I like it too, which is good as I don't seem to be able to change it.

Japanese horror movies are very kewl (Korean ones too).  I really liked "Ringu" and "Another Heaven", especially.  Also, I have figured out why Asian horror movies are so scary...they have made crawling terrifying.  Seriously.  Almost any Japanese horror film, at least, features a long-haired woman crawling in a really unnerving manner.  If you can make crawling scary, you can make a great horror movie.

I've also noticed that Asian horror films skip the typical American "at least two teenagers must have sex before death" rule, which is refreshing.

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Athie

I do, I haven't watched too much lately though. I like Korean one's too.
My favourite is 'Tale of Two Sisters' It has quite a complex plot and some really scary moments.
I also liked Ring, I haven't seen Another Heaven yet.

yes - corporatism with lots of imagination is OK ;P

Well, you probably know this already but it's VERY traditional. And it might be hard for an Aspie to work there (well, this aspie would find it hard, even if she were a man lol) because of how group-oriented the culture is.

My interest in Japan began with japanese tattoos. Check out the works of Horiyoshi III if you don't know what I mean. I plan to cover my body in the japanese full body tattoo style, which is called irezumi.
If ya like tattoos, or have any questions about it, drop me a pm.

Ooh, I loved "A Tale of Two Sisters"!  It's so intense and creepy...with a few "Argh!" moments too, which is a great combination.

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Athie

HEHE. Yeah.

I was the caregiver for my mother and father. I set up respite and meals on wheels and took a vacation to Hawaii. On August 13 I called and called and no one answered. My friend called the police and we started a 3 week search. We found their bodies in Harbison Canyon on Sept 4, 2006.
I think it was, in their minds, an honorable way to die.(sepuko, harakiri??) My mom felt like she was a burden, my dad got accepted in the VA home but she wasn't allowed to go with him. I also lost my dog to this tragedity.
I wanted to know what you call this in Japanese. Does anyone know???? In my mind it wasn't really suicide.

Either seppuku or hara-kiri is acceptable.  Both are terms for ritualistic suicide.

Weird... I got an SQL error when I tried to write the above terms in Japanese kanji rather than romanji.

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.

Wow is good to know here are so many Japanese culture lovers , yeah it's one of my favorite interests, i wish to live in Japan, i like everything, their Food, Anime, Gardens, Technology, Music, Life Stile,  i also think the Japanese culture have a lot of AS characteristics, Perfectionism, Discipline, Liking for the Technology, (I’m not saying the Japanese are aspies, just the culture is like an Eden for AS )