I'd like to go there one day but I just know I'll have to do a lot of language studying before I try.
Poll: Ever been to Japan?
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Yea. Was really lucky and got into this summer job being counselors at an English camp in Nagasaki.
Beautiful city, spend 3 months there and a week checking out the cities leading back to Tokyo. One of the best experiences of my life. Not enough to get a good opinion about what living there was like and too biased by having such a good time to comment on differences between it and the US in order to determine which country is somehow arbitrarily "better." It's another country, that's about it. Has some good parts too it, also has areas where foreigners/gaijin are very frowned upon. Very polite people but also find the same nationalist xenophobic pricks that you would find in the US (or wherever you hail from)
Beautiful city, spend 3 months there and a week checking out the cities leading back to Tokyo. One of the best experiences of my life. Not enough to get a good opinion about what living there was like and too biased by having such a good time to comment on differences between it and the US in order to determine which country is somehow arbitrarily "better." It's another country, that's about it. Has some good parts too it, also has areas where foreigners/gaijin are very frowned upon. Very polite people but also find the same nationalist xenophobic pricks that you would find in the US (or wherever you hail from)
Yes, I have! 
I didn't pick the first option because sadly it wasn't the most awesome thing. I went the summer of my senior year for two weeks and didn't do nearly as much as I'd have liked. Problem with going with a group of others and stuff. So... not quite awesome.
Hoping to go back again in the future!
I didn't pick the first option because sadly it wasn't the most awesome thing. I went the summer of my senior year for two weeks and didn't do nearly as much as I'd have liked. Problem with going with a group of others and stuff. So... not quite awesome.
Hoping to go back again in the future!
Went for spring break once with my Dad and Uncle. Very cool place to visit. We went to about 5 different ramen shops (much better than the packaged stuff), the Ghibli museum, Shinto Shrines, Buddhist Temples, saw the Emperor's Palace (not inside of course), Mt. Fuji, and a bunch of other cool places.
It's a pretty nice country to visit, that's for sure. Funny part is, although I was 2 years into my high school Japanese class at the time, I didn't speak a single word of it when I was there. I choose not to mention that to my Japanese teacher. >.>
I wouldn't call it "AWESOME" though. It's a country, like any other. It has benefits, as well as problems.
It's a pretty nice country to visit, that's for sure. Funny part is, although I was 2 years into my high school Japanese class at the time, I didn't speak a single word of it when I was there. I choose not to mention that to my Japanese teacher. >.>
I wouldn't call it "AWESOME" though. It's a country, like any other. It has benefits, as well as problems.
Yep. Been out there twice (first time was a 3 month solo backpacking trip) and love it, although the second time round the special charm wore off a little. My long-term girlfriend is Japanese (well, Okinawan) - we met while both studying abroad in Iceland - so the second time was spent more living together than traveling around the usual sights. End of July I'm moving out there to study postgrad Volcanology at Kyoto University under the MEXT scholarship. Should be an awesome time.
Lots of good winter climbing, too. That's gonna be pretty rad!
Incidentally I know a Japanese girlfriend is every otaku weeaboo's dream, whatever. I don't really care. I love her because she's a nice girl, not because I have a hard-on for her country (I don't!). It's just luck that we met and it's worked out really well so far.
Lots of good winter climbing, too. That's gonna be pretty rad!
Incidentally I know a Japanese girlfriend is every otaku weeaboo's dream, whatever. I don't really care. I love her because she's a nice girl, not because I have a hard-on for her country (I don't!). It's just luck that we met and it's worked out really well so far.
Yup, went during the summer of 2007. I went to see my Brother who was stationed on the Marine base at Mt. Fuji.
I lived in Yokohama for about a year. Except for the stress over university coursework, I loved it.
I want to go back. Badly.
I want to go back. Badly.
I went a few years back in high school with the rest of my japanese class. It was really fun.
We did all the sightseeing stuff, i bought a replica katana, got slapped by a japanese pimp in a cowboy suit, walked over an exhaust grate thing which was blowing warm, pooey air up, my friend almost got mugged by big black people in shinjuku and we almost got arrested for 'thinking about stealing' from a music store for picking up cds, looking at them and putting them back'
Brilliant times! ^.^
We did all the sightseeing stuff, i bought a replica katana, got slapped by a japanese pimp in a cowboy suit, walked over an exhaust grate thing which was blowing warm, pooey air up, my friend almost got mugged by big black people in shinjuku and we almost got arrested for 'thinking about stealing' from a music store for picking up cds, looking at them and putting them back'
Brilliant times! ^.^
I'm graduating from high school this upcoming friday (CLASS OF 2011! I beat the Apocalyspe baby!) anyways, I'm going to attend CC for 2 years then transfer to a University, within those two years, I plan on traveling, one place I plan on going to is JAPAN!
so ye
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so ye
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Sadly, he's right, I went there and didn't even get served at a few restaurants, people pointing and laughing, pushing you in crowds, ignoring you (At shops and such), they're incredibly nasty people.144 said:
And their culture is over-rated.
In addition, the signs that say "No Foreigners", "Only Japanese Allowed", "No Russians Permitted", and my personal favorite, "Members Only" (Only japanese people can be members.)vxicepickxv said:
Oh and until around 1990 anyone seeking Japanese citizenship had to take a Japanese name.
