This post is a modified version of an assignment I wrote for my Practical Japanese class. This post is also written from the perspective of a dumb American who barely knows what Setsubun is, so please forgive me. I will update the post with corrections as I see fit. Saturday, February 3, 2018 was not…
When landing in Japan, one of the first things you will probably notice is that Japan is… Japanese. According to data from the CIA world factbook (see citation), Japan is 98.5% Japanese, about 0.5% Chinese, 0.4% Korean, and the remainder “other”, although other consists of a considerable amount of Americans, Europeans, etc. Due to Japan’s…
Monday, January 22 marks a rare event in Tokyo. That’s right, it snowed today. I was super excited throughout the day as I had never seen snowfall in my life. And out of all the places in the world where I could see snowfall, I never expected the first place to be Tokyo. This is…
The tone of this piece may come off as negative, but I just want to let you know that I am having a great time in Japan. This is what I was thinking on January 18, 2018. Thursday, January 18 marks a little over one week in Japan. My experience here thus far has been…
After a long 12.5-hour flight from LAX to HND, I finally touched down in Tokyo, Japan. I was so eager to enter Japan that I actually forgot my suit on the plane, but thankfully one of the flight attendants chased me down to hand it to me. As I was walking to the immigration line,…
When writing a letter or sending a package in the US, you send your mail to an address formatted similarly to the following. Firstname Lastname 123 ABC Street Anytown, Anystate 12345 (USA) A similar addressing system applies to most European countries as well. For example, a French address would read as follows. …