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Ah! That's the shirt, although it was not inverted...

2007-08-11T12:17:00.000+09:00

Ah! That's the shirt, although it was not inverted. Must have made its way over here somehow.

That elephant T-shirt is from the 2004 Republican ...

2007-08-10T23:29:00.000+09:00

That elephant T-shirt is from the 2004 Republican convention in NYC. I couldn't find an example image but here is an ANTI-republican example.
I love Japan. Thanks for your blog!

Oh, a professor at SDSU made a relationship with G...

2007-08-09T18:45:00.000+09:00

Oh, a professor at SDSU made a relationship with Gunma University and so several of my friends had come over on that, and one of them shokai'ed me into his job.

I've often wondered, what made you settle out in G...

2007-08-09T09:52:00.000+09:00

I've often wondered, what made you settle out in Gunma anyway?

I'm not sure, really, but supposedly more women we...

2007-08-09T09:30:00.000+09:00

I'm not sure, really, but supposedly more women were "compotent" to earn money, which led to men being weaker than their wives. As an interesting aside, we have more gambling than any other prefecture, which supposedly is where the men waste all their time. Pachinko, motorcycle racing, bicycle racing, and so on, we've got it all. (No dog racing ^_^).

I'll try to add Japanese more often, sorry about that.

Yes, Niga! would not have been the right thiing to say in most of the U.S. Hopefully no one was offended by the funny story, which had nothing to with anything other than a Japanese word. (There's way too much stuff that people get offended by, IMHO.)

haha that "niga" story was very funny, he must hav...

2007-08-09T00:14:00.000+09:00

haha that "niga" story was very funny, he must have felt very embarrassed

Hi. Always interesting to read your observations a...

2007-08-08T23:42:00.000+09:00

Hi. Always interesting to read your observations about Japan.

I have two requests.

Could you explain more about how the lack of a fishing industry may have led to the strong will of women in Gunma?

Whenever you write about Japanese expressions or phrases that are made up of only (or mostly) kanji, could you write out the kanji also?

Onegaishimasu.