TheManInJapan

Psst … if you want to know more about Japan, click here for free info. =)As I’ve mentioned before, I attended Tokyo Gakugei University. But I’ve never lived at the Gakugei dorms. Instead I live about 10 minutes away (by bike), at the Hitotsubashi International Village, which is also called the Kodaira kokusai kampasu. It’s [...]

In Japan, the garbage trucks sound like ice cream trucks: – Photo Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/acesolidwaste/4668955665/

Today I’ll be talking about Japanese Ethnocentricism, which is basically a euphemism for Japanese Racism (assuming that “Asian” is more than one race). But, uh…I didn’t wanna be rude. Anyway, here are some of the things I heard before I got here: The Japanese see themselves as superior to all foreigners. The Japanese have mental [...]

I gotta be honest with you: I had a pretty bad attendance record this semester. That’s not because the classes here are any worse than the classes back home (I had some bad attendance records back home, like that one time I skipped a class for an entire semester and still passed…). Rather, it’s because [...]

It’s something I’ve never understood: People walking around with Giant Sticks. I don’t see them all the time, but when I do I try to get a picture. Sometimes I don’t manage to, because the person gets on a train or something, so keep in mind that I’ve seen even more giant sticks than I’ve [...]

This is my room at the Hitotsubashi International Village, which is in Kodaira, which is in Tokyo. More specifically, I’m in building C, room 402. I’ve even cleaned it for you. Kindof. And without further ado, this is my room. On the left is my bed. In the back you see the curtain of the [...]

You may remember a famous musical called “The Sound of Music”: It’s about a nun-in-training who becomes a nanny for a large family, teaches them to sing and restores their happiness. It also concerns the geopolitical events involving Austria and Germany on the eve of World War II. The musical features a song about a [...]

Mom and Dad came to see me for 9 days in Tokyo!

So, May 28 was my 22nd birthday. The fact that I hadn’t posted about that yet shows you how far behind I am. At this point, I had been in Japan for less than two months. Yet somehow I still had made enough friends for all this: And there were other friends who asked later [...]

(This was actually awhile ago…I’m behind on my posts again) One day, I went out to get some food, and right outside of campus I saw this: That seemed odd, apparently they had shut down the road, so I started biking on the sidewalk 20 feet later, I saw this: Woah! It was a bona [...]