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Japan – A personal story

…hink about other than ourselves.  We are not the only ones.  2.  We cannot come there, and it is best that you do not come here at this time.   3.  It is like we are living in older times.  We were simply too used to the comforts of modern society. They now are experiencing 3 hour black outs and the stores have run out of necessities.  They went to Kawagoe the other day and he simply said that the crowd was “sugoi” (very large). The Japanese are a…

Japanese Protectionism, Latinos in the USA and The Age of Reason

…of the goodness of his heart.  But you’ll just have to excuse me as I’ve become rather jaded while coming of age in this period of L’hypercapitalisme Americain.   b.) The American business owner who also criticizes U.S. government agencies for failing to support U.S. export business in an aggressive manner. – I have to point out that the USA has done quite a bit in “supporting U.S. export business in an aggressive manner.”  If you look above I men…

Black Lives Matter

…ple and for people to change their hearts. I think that this is a good wake-up call and I hope American society does become more just. However, it will need every individual to look deeply within themselves and erase those feelings of prejudice. I don’t see this happening for most people but I hope over time people will continue to mix and see the bigger picture that we are all human beings on this Earth for only a short time. How silly is it to t…

Racism in Japan

…in Tokyo and it may differ in the countryside) and I’m tired of all this ex-pat whining. Japan is a homogenous country and they have very specific customs and rules of behavior that most foreigners cannot understand. Most of us ex-pats are good hard working people and try to understand Japan from the inside. But then you have the other type of “gaijin” like in Shibuya or Roppongi that are extremely shady and are suspect. If I was Japanese I would…

An International Discussion in Virtual Reality

…the “alphabet” used for foreign words which is katakana. Computer is just “compu-ta,” server is just “sa-va.” But sometimes they can take old words “kanji” and by combining them make a word that makes sense. For example the word “technology” is made my combining the kanji “gi” which means “vocation, craft, arts, skill etc” with “Juutsu,” meaning technique, resources, magic, skill, art” etc. Why my insight was is that we do not really make new word…