• Going to Japan for 3 weeks
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[media]http://youtube.com/watch?v=0rm5j1WYi94[/media] and meet 'Hard-Gay'! [media]http://youtube.com/watch?v=igC4bPDp6cU[/media]
Eat Kobe-beef if it's not your money :v: Visit the shogun's palace if you are into history. If I remember right that is where the floor makes bird noises so no one could assasinate the shogun/emperor. [editline]07:27AM[/editline] If you go to Nara, be prepared that there are fuckloads of deer. Buy something that you could sell on e-bay :v: Visit the Nintendo HQ.
[QUOTE=laval;23533180]Niteshifter, what program are you going to Japan on? I'm saving up to go back but I'd like to find some sort of working holiday gig or something this time round (Canadian too)[/QUOTE] It's an International Exchange program. It was more meant as a reward for the years I put into an organization.
[QUOTE=Niteshifter;23532029]Thanks for your input, because I never did say that I was right about this.[/QUOTE] He boxed you because you said you expect them to practice their English. Japan is the wrong place to expect such a thing. They are very nationalistic there. And you're not showing respect if you don't try while you can.
Buy the K-ON! complete series, send it to me, you get money from me, to buy something for yourself.. nah just kidding, but if you're into manga/anime, then look for you're favorite show in the shops, and buy the dvds. [editline]12:53PM[/editline] (I never been to japan, hardly know it but that's all i got)
Japans -.- ihey jerk off to their politicans -.-
[QUOTE=Nuts;23539239]Japans -.- ihey jerk off to their politicans -.-[/QUOTE] There was once a japanese animation where world leaders and Japan's former PM playing majong. It ended in the PM flying a jet into a north korea missile (Kim Jong Il cheats) to save everyone. He returned unscathed. Also for the love of god saying "KAWAII" or just "DESU" by themselves will get anyone within hearing distance to dislike you, possibly lynching.
Go whale hunting, i heard it's meant to be fun, and taste good!
I hear the Hiroshima peace museum is cool. Prepare to see thousands upon thousands of folded paper cranes from all over the globe.
[QUOTE=FunnyGamer;23531049]The first thing I'd probably try to learn to say is "I don't know Japanese," really.[/QUOTE] "Watashi wa nihongo o dekimasen" I took one year of Japanese, I think that's it.
Get a watermelon cooler. I am damn jealous btw, never been there but just by the looks and what everyone says it sounds exactly like where I would want to live.
Don't worry, many people in Tokyo know a bit of English I am sure.
[QUOTE=spazthemax;23539380]"Watashi wa nihongo o dekimasen" I took one year of Japanese, I think that's it.[/QUOTE] The proper way of putting it is: 私は日本語が話せません。 Watashi ha nihongo ga hanasemasen. (polite and formal form) By using "dekimasen", you're saying "I can't (do) Japanese". Which sounds as weird in Japanese as it does in English. You also use 'ga' instead of 'wo' (I can't explain why it's like that, it just is). [QUOTE=sami-pso;23538421]He boxed you because you said you expect them to practice their English. Japan is the wrong place to expect such a thing. They are very nationalistic there. And you're not showing respect if you don't try while you can.[/QUOTE] Unless he looks a lot like a student, he probably won't be approached in Japanese. More specifically, if he looks like a tourist, people are prepared to switch to English. If you can't speak Japanese, your best bet is to try in as nice and slow (without being patronizing, hopefully) English as you can, there's nothing wrong with that. [editline]11:51PM[/editline] [QUOTE=Niteshifter;23511769]I'm heading out to Japan on Friday for 3 weeks and I'm wondering what are some neat things to do there, and what stuff I should bring back?[/QUOTE] I wrote two sorta long responses to a previous thread on the same subject if you're interested: [url]http://www.facepunch.com/showpost.php?p=22000522&postcount=69[/url] [url]http://www.facepunch.com/showpost.php?p=22001317&postcount=72[/url]
I honestly don't know much about the current culture in Japan, so the things I've been told right now may not be correct, which is why I'm keeping an open mind. I'm hoping to get most things cleared at the briefing before I head off.
Try Ninja Warrior
Don't worry about not speaking Japanese. Learning english is a requirement for Japanese schools, and so almost everyone you meet in an huge city like Tokyo, especially the younger people will speak a little english. Anyway, they do have translations. Though some of them don't make sense. Sometimes.
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