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By: Glen Pearce

Glen Pearce — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 09:42:00 +0000

Did somebody say Japanese whaling issue? ^_^

http://www.moonie.ca/glenap/goofy/news.htmlJust a funny thought I had back in 1997. ^_^

By: Paura

Paura — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 20:23:00 +0000

As a professor once put it to me, the primary difference in arguing between two American people and to Japanese people is the Americans will say, “No, your argument is 100% wrong, here is why.” while the Japanese will say, “Well, your argument is 10% right, but let me tell you about this other 90% I have found to be true.” :)

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By: Fabrizio

Fabrizio — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:21:00 +0000

I TOTALLY agree with you.
I’ve been living in Tokyo for almost 5 years now and it’s getting frustrating as hell.
To be honest, I got fed up with it.
Besides the fact that it’s really hard to bond with almost anyone here (and I speak japanese very well), when you start debating with a japanese person…it’s like a waste of time.
Some even gaze at you thinking “he’s not japanese…he’d never understand what I’m talking about but let’s smile to him anyway”.
When I walk inside a shop (any kind of) I feel like there’s this “hateful” energy all around me.
I don’t want to start talking about women because I’m sure we could go on forever.
It’s funny when you say the simplest thing like “yesterday I ate sushi in Hiroo” and they’d go like “eeeeeeee hontoooo?! sugoooi!” while clapping their hands.
Well I’m sure you know what I’m talking about.
I believe there’s also a LOT of ignorance here. I have met people thinking that the sun was a planet and that New Zealand was in Italy (since I’m italian).
Or phrases like “do you have street lights in Italy?”, “is english the main language in italy?” and so on.
This is pure madness.
I have loved this city but I believe that for us western people it’s too alienating and stressful.
Where do you live in Jap?
Follow my blog and you’ll have some nice laughs :)

Cheers!

Fabrizio – http://tokyofreakkk.blogspot.com/

By: Derek Blais

Derek Blais — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 15:52:00 +0000

I teach at a junior high school in a small, wealthy village. The kids at this school get opportunities that other publicly educated kids in Japan cannot get. We have a debate event once a year where an outside teacher (debate specialist?) does a debate lesson which is followed by an actual debate (done by students). It seems that every year the students fail to come up with good, logical arguments. As Hiko said, it’s hard to think critically when the social forces of Japan have been discouraging such things to maintain harmony for 300 years.

I forgot to mention, the debate is taught and done in Japanese.

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A look back at 2010 on Gakuranman.com | Gakuranman.com - illuminating Japan — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 23:51:16 +0000

[...] also saw me teaming up with Hikosaemon to make an educational video with a comedic twist about Arguing in Japanese. Hiko did an impressive job putting the final video together and it gained a lot of popularity from [...]