Day 460 { General Things Foreigners Must Know Before Coming To Japan Part } Monday, June 22, 2009

Day 460 { General Things Foreigners Must Know Before Coming To Japan Part 3/New Point System }

Nothing major took place today for me except work and bible study.

Here are 2 things I left off the Part 1 and part 2 of the General Things Foreigners Must Know Before Coming To Japan series. This is part 3.....And I may have different parts coming up as I remember stuff.



23) Japanese People Are GENERALLY Shy and many times Easily Offended.

So if you should complement a regular Japanese person over and over. You probably will see their face getting pink. Thats because they are blushing like crazy (Well the females that is. I tend not to complement men) and maybe they will say Atsukashi or Hazukashi (is that how it is spelled Stewart ???) which means something like they are shy or they are blushing.

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24) Many Japanese people are workaholics

Yes, it is even a fact that people die on the job here. And work is the number 1 thing in many of their lives. Not family, not money, but work!!!

I again must stress that these things are very general and there are always exceptions. And as I mentioned in Part 1 - Number 4, Japan can be very paradoxical, so you can expect anything here.

And for any Japanese friend, I have that think they are too unique... Well the truth is that every single culture on earth is unique in their own way. Indiana and New York in the USA has 4 clear seasons too, as far as I know. Every culture has good and bad stuff about them. Some more good than bad, some more bad than good. We are all humans and we are all equal.


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Yes So if you want to become a legal resident in Japan, you will have to be living here for at least 10 years.... And that's not even citizenship. They are now planning to review this.



Stewart, thanks for the information. I always thought Japan opened its borders from about 100-200 years now, I don't know where I got that from. So it was really after the WWII cool thanks...I knew about the Nihonjinron thing actually through one of your earlier posts.

This is a blog I found on it which is quite hilarious.
http://japanlost.blogspot.com/2007/10/nihonjinron-and-baka-gaijin.html

Nihonjinron and the Baka Gaijin .... DWL