M48A5K Posted August 27, 2015 Posted August 27, 2015 My Korean is a bit rusty lately. What does it say? Japanese trash bin with KORAIL(Korean National Railroad) marking.
JasonJ Posted August 27, 2015 Posted August 27, 2015 A product by a hater. The haters have been louder ever since Park become president.
M48A5K Posted August 27, 2015 Posted August 27, 2015 (edited) Uh, now that's a bit aggressive. Edited August 27, 2015 by M48A5K
JasonJ Posted August 27, 2015 Posted August 27, 2015 Uh, now that's a bit aggressive. My reply or the garbage bin?
M48A5K Posted August 27, 2015 Posted August 27, 2015 Uh, now that's a bit aggressive. My reply or the garbage bin? Reply. Maybe I'm just overreacting, or failed to understand your post properly.
JasonJ Posted August 27, 2015 Posted August 27, 2015 (edited) Uh, now that's a bit aggressive. My reply or the garbage bin? Reply. Maybe I'm just overreacting, or failed to understand your post properly. Nah I admit I came off a bit sharp. There is a lot of low level stuff in society that can be found. I tend to just ignore the low level stuff and focus on what ripples down to the low level rather than circulating the low level stuff. Not to say that the low level stuff shouldn't be discussed. But I am concerned about low level stuff circulating over and over thus refueling the hate. I see a number of anti-korean videos on Youtube, etc, and I don't like seeing them. But it's likely just an effect from the ripples of the source of its making and that source being the current top level political situation. If the top level political situation is resolved, then the negative effects can't ripple down to society. So for that reason, I don't try to find examples of Koreans hating Japanese and if I do, I don't spread it. Again though, I can't endorse not posting examples of low level hate as that is limiting freedom of speech, but at least for me, I don't see it as helpful. On the flip-side, I mentioned it before, the kpop, kdrama, and Korean restaurants in Japan. There truly was a Korean wave that swept through Japan. Korean pop stars and documentaries about them were appearing on basic TV channels, tons of concerts filled up, Korean fashion fads being utilized by university girls. Korean pop songs at Karaoke getting the a 人気 "popular" added besides it's name in the song lists as well has hangul sometimes coming up in the Korean song. Korean was becoming a language of personal interest to study for some people. This period was only 4-5 years long. Far too short. It was what was really needed to turn things around. But its severely damaged. If it ran like that for 10 years, some fundamental opinions can change. I had one Japanese student, a girl around the age of 11 or so, and she was going to by some stickers. Of the sticker selection she could have selected she picked the one pack that Korean on the stickers. She loved Girl's Generation. I asked her if she could read it. She said no but went on saying that she knew how to say a few phrases. I replied to her showing what some of the Korean words mean. "This one is anneonghaseyo, its like Konnichha and this one means Chingu and it means friend". And before I started teaching, at my host family's house when I studiied abroad in Japan, one dinner, my host sister was telling me about a dance she was doing with her classmates at school. I didn't bring up that subject. She told me about it from herself, and she demonstrated the song, it was again, girl's generation. My GF likes a lot of Kpop stuff. We have watched kdrama together. Once she went to South Korea with one Japanese friend and a Korean friend of hers. I stayed in Japan. And the Korean friend bought up the issue of Takeshima. And she asked my GF whose island does she thing it belongs to. On the spot my GF replied something like "I guess Korea's". The Korean friend said yeah and gestured for a high 5. I don't mean ill-will towards the Korean girl here, but why the heck does my GF have to know all the details about Takeshima/Dokdo? The complexity of Dokdo/Takeshima needs the attention by people that actually know about international relations and know all the intricate details in order to form a fair opinion. My GF told she felt a little annoyed but she lets it go. That's how she is. Just work for life. Very practical. After she told me this story, I told her that historically it should be Korea's but international laws dictate it belongs to Japan. I have talked about Dokdo/Takeshima with one of my Japanese friends. But we participated in the debate club together and is used to talking about international related things. And plus we're good friends so we can talk about that stuff. But for the first time in Korea for maybe just the second time meeting her and already Dokdo? How is friendship supposed to be developed with the politics so deeply embedded into the basic level of everyday life? The seeds of friendship had received water and were starting to spout. Then it was grabbed with an iron hand and ripped out of the soil and tossed away. So yes, pardon my hasty reply. Edited August 27, 2015 by JasonJ
Corinthian Posted August 28, 2015 Author Posted August 28, 2015 MARPAT Gas Mask Kimono Girl is just so damn sexy. Really.
Mike Steele Posted August 29, 2015 Posted August 29, 2015 MARPAT Gas Mask Kimono Girl is just so damn sexy. Really. I agree for some strange reason....
JasonJ Posted August 30, 2015 Posted August 30, 2015 Japanese fans got to perform Korean Pop group Girl's Generation dance/songs in front of Girl's Generation. The all man team earns the video on this thread
JasonJ Posted September 1, 2015 Posted September 1, 2015 I don't need to help translate that one right?
Mr King Posted September 1, 2015 Posted September 1, 2015 I don't need to help translate that one right? Just need you to film a product demo. Thanks!
JasonJ Posted September 2, 2015 Posted September 2, 2015 I don't need to help translate that one right? Just need you to film a product demo. Thanks!Oh yeah suuurrreeeeee.
Edmund Posted September 2, 2015 Posted September 2, 2015 I would ask for a translation, but I afraid of the answer. So no.
Colin Posted September 3, 2015 Posted September 3, 2015 http://www.domain.com.au/news/tokyos-abandoned-homes-20150824-gj6arl/ snip Despite a deeply rooted national aversion to waste, discarded homes are spreading across Japan like a blight in a garden. Long-term vacancy rates have climbed significantly higher than in the United States or Europe, and some eight million dwellings are now unoccupied, according to a government count. Nearly half of them have been forsaken completely – neither for sale nor for rent, they simply sit there, in varying states of disrepair.These ghost homes are the most visible sign of human retreat in a country where the population peaked a half-decade ago and is forecast to fall by a third over the next 50 years. The demographic pressure has weighed on the Japanese economy, as a smaller workforce struggles to support a growing proportion of the old, and has prompted intense debate over long-term proposals to boost immigration or encourage women to have more children. snip
swerve Posted September 3, 2015 Posted September 3, 2015 (edited) Lots of new flats & houses going up in some areas. Can't miss 'em walking from Mrs B's mother's house to her sister's & brother-in-law's place. But I've seen empty houses elsewhere, e.g. in the town where her grandparents lived until they died. It's economics. Easy to recruit young people to work in care homes for the old in one place because there are bugger-all other jobs, jobs-a-plenty in the other place. I'm just proof-reading & editing 17 translations into English of company profiles of engineering firms in that area. You want custom precision engineering? One-offs? Prototypes? Small batches? What specialised skills do you need? Bigger batches - no problem! They'll do the prototyping & then farm out the processing to their branches or associates in Thailand (mostly), Indonesia, Malaysia or (in one case) India. I now have a list . .. . . The biggest one (all of 150 or so employees in Japan) has a factory in China. Not much left of that sort of thing here. Edited September 3, 2015 by swerve
Jeff Posted September 11, 2015 Posted September 11, 2015 "I don't think they wanted me to talk really. I don't think they wanted me to say anything. It was just their way of having a bit of fun, the swines. Strange thing is they make such bloody good cameras."
JasonJ Posted September 11, 2015 Posted September 11, 2015 Is there any information about this picture from where you found it?
Mikel2 Posted September 11, 2015 Posted September 11, 2015 Didn't Babe Ruth tour Japan after his career had cooled down?
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