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You lived in Japan for a bit??? 👀
What do you miss the most about Japan and what do you prefer about living elsewhere??
I did :) I was on school exchange for a semester. (Was supposed to be a year, but things happened in life back home and I came back and then couldn't afford another ticket cause it is not cheap to fly to Japan from canada)
I miss conveyer belt sushi places. I miss public baths/onsen. I miss sleeping on tatami and futon (not something I got to do often, my apartment had a western bed). I miss getting on the train to Kyoto and visiting my favourite shrine (fushimi inari). I miss the temple cats. I miss the architecture.
I like the mountains where I live. I missed them when I was in Japan. I like the queer acceptance here. I like that I don't get stared at the same as I did in Japan (as a small/mid fat, tall white person with tattoos, always wearing sunglasses I stuck out).
But I'd live there again in a heartbeat if someone would go with me/take me.
#about me#personal zuchinni#zuchinni answers#asks#about japan#it was over 10 years ago now 😭 im aging 👍
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i'll let phie-san say it:
#the vids i've seen on tiktok picking at her immediately get a block...#bitter otaku sitting in their socks in their mom's basement feeling threatened/enraged by a hot successful black woman outnerding them-core#also this kind of criticism is so demoralising and damaging to people who are trying to learn another language#also. accents are NORMAL and not a bad thing#i don't think that the end goal of picking up a new language necessarily has to be sounding native#and i know sometimes the way japanese people react like SUGOIII? *W* when a foreigner says like one (1) word in japanese is joked about#but like... genuinely... i always love when someone clearly has made an effort and took the time to learn some of the language#anyway she can step on those haters <3#also like. it’s just some lines in a song people need to relax…#megan thee stallion#autoplay warning#japan#japanese#language#mamushi
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I have a theory about gen z and millennials, so please help me out with this poll.
Please make sure to vote as to whether you got vaccinated as a child or not, if you did not get chicken pox. Take care, spread this around, and vaccinate your fucking kids. Poll is not exclusive to any country. Vote no matter where you're from.
#poll#ps i'm not sure about every single country but the vaccine for chicken pox wasn't available to the US until 1995#i think the earliest was 1989 in japan?#so millennials you do not have to shame your parents if you didn't get vaxxed
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I don't mean it in a creepy way I promise, but I feel a kinship with China, Japan and Korea i wish more people from my region shared, because...we have sister ecosystems!
It's actually amazing, there are so many plant genera that are not closely related to anything else and just have a couple living species: One (or two) from mid latitude Southeast Asia, and one from the Southeastern USA.
For example, the two living lotus species (sacred lotus and American lotus), the two living tulip tree/ Liriodendron species, the Chinese and American sweetgums (Liquidambar spp.) the Chinese and American trumpet vines (Campsis spp.) the Chinese, Japanese and American wisteria (Wisteria spp), the Chinese, Taiwan and American sassafras (Sassafras spp.) I KNOW i'm forgetting many of them because there are so many. Twins!!!!
And there's so many iconic plant groups shared in common between East Asia and SE USA. Like dogwoods, magnolias, rhododendrons, we even have our own bamboo!!!
I think a lot of how strangely familiar each ecosystem would feel to someone visiting from the other one.
And I bet there's a lot of ecological knowledge and insights we could share with each other...
Sister ecosystems...
#plants#i think about this alllllll the time#like wow they are so far apart but half the time we have a unique plant#it has a super close relative in china and/or japan and nothing else is anything like it
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Look at this cool new t-shirt I made for fans of Abraham Lincoln! I made it on my own time, with my own resources, and without any affiliation to existing public or private institutions concerned with history, education, hospitality, culture or retail. You can find it at my new Threadless shop or directly at bit.ly/imissabe
#abraham lincoln#abe lincoln#i miss abe#other important disclaimers include that this is about the assassinated former president of the united states of america#and not about the assassinated former prime minister of japan#i figured the top hat would make that clear but as long as im covering my own ass i should make sure to bring that up too#anyway the art is all original#and the phrase is not trademarked#and it is available in a wide variety of sizes#and on a wide variety of products
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I'm all for people hitting yams with the "long hair and a cool fashion sense" beam but my favorite timeskip flavor is lame office worker
#dont worry he still has his joy and whimsy#so what if the other first years are on TV every other week? Do they have their own cubicle? I didn't think so#I like to think about him casually dropping that he knows a good 80% of the Japan Olympic volleyball team during water cooler talk#his coworkers are like “What do you mean you know THE Hinata Shoyo” and he's like “Yeah i lost his shoes once"#yamaguchi tadashi#haikyuu#haikyuu!!#haikyuu fanart#hq#hq fanart#my art
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THEY CANCELLED DEAD BOY DETECTIVES :(((
Guess they belong to me the fandom now
#dead boy detectives#dbda#payneland#WHAT A WAY TO FIND OUT#thanks for letting me know anon#damn that sucks#pls don't hate me for trying to joke about it gasdjkaskfja this is how i cope#does this mean now i HAVE to write that fanfiction about the gang going to Japan to retrieve Niko's body I've been actively avoiding?#ask ask ask
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The systems supporting genocide, apartheid and occupation are entrenched.
But they are more exposed now than ever.
They are breaking. Keep pushing.
#palestine#free gaza#gaza#israel#israeli war crimes#Japan#irlande#canada#spain#free palestine#don't stop talking about palestine#never stop talking about palestine#jerusalem#فلسطين#i stand with palestine#israel is a terrorist state
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I was watching a documentary about ancient Japanese swords.
Next thing I know, a Japanese sword is in my hand, I'm in samurai armour and there is a another samurai guy tied up in front of me.
I beheaded him then I woke up :D.
#dream#kind of violent???#idk what it was about 😭#violence tw#death tw#murder tw#samurai#Japan#beheading tw
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Katsuki Yuuri is so funny because dude is an Olympic level figure skater who competes internationally regularly and he introduces himself through narration in the first episode as very average in skill, who is doing it like him.
Your self confidence may be bad but is it deluding yourself into thinking you suck at something you rank sixth in the world at bad?
#he has one really bad day and forgets that he’s the best skater in Japan#this post brought to you because I’m watching sk8 and was reminded about my true sports anime BL bait love#yuri!!! on ice#yuuri katsuki#yoi#caitie speaks#animanga
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People will complain about Israeli Miku because "genocide/apartheid/[insert other grievance here]..." and then say nothing about any other Miku drawn as a country who's government has done anything wrong. No one says anything about Chinese, Iranian, Ethiopian, American, Russian, Nigerian, German, Sudanese, etc Miku. That would be racist. Claiming that a character is depicting a genocidal maniac for being portrayed as a civilian from a country with a problematic government would be racist.
It's very clear your problem is not with a character being associated with a country that has committed atrocities, but rather that the country you have a problem with is the Jewish one. If you were truly so intent on not seeing any character in any way associated with any country with problematic leadership (which is nearly impossible, but I digress), you would be complaining about every Miku drawn in this trend, not just the Israeli ones.
You are mad about Israeli Miku because of your antisemitic, anti-Jewish bias, not because you just hate atrocities. Characters (and people) existing from a country whose government you don't like is not evil and it is ridiculous to get mad over it. If you responded this way to any other ethnic drawing of Miku, you would be racist. People would call you out for your racism.
Ask yourself, am I criticizing the Israeli government? Or am I attacking a random person and character for their nationality?
#israel#hatsune miku#international miku#come at me#come whine at me#I dare you#I mean miku is Japanese#but I don't see anyone screaming about how colonial Japan is#if you said “boycott Miku for being Japanese” you would be racist
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i don't think i posted this one here... sketch with Yazan and Kat. I reeeeally love to draw extremely content cats.
I want to achieve the same emotion like this cat on a piece from the museum i saw one day. My favorite cat face ever.
#art#lisa rpg#yazan barghouti#lisa the painful#I don't remember what this piece was about...#i think it was something something japan history... i mean you can kinda tell with the artstyle
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meanwhile notes put up by the guy hired by my dad to help with foreign guests at his little ryokan in rural japan (“my english is not perfect,” said the guy earnestly. “but i think i can always get the meaning across.” “great,” said my dad. “that’s all that matters.”):
#i saw that tweet and immediately had to message him: remember toilet hole????#this was about ten years ago but the most important thing you should know is:#he now does interpretation/translation for the local government#twitter#japan
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#editing tags bc i didnt realise this popped and now i feel like i should tell u#u can probably search the article from the bit i included but it's a sensitive subject and not a light read#about sa on public transport in japan#i just thought this bit was funny so i screenshot and posted and got on with my day but yea
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IDK WHO HANDSHAKE IS.. Frye won!!!!! In Japan!!!!! OBANYAKI LET'S GOOOO💛💛💛
#totally didn't forget to post it here#WE COULD'VE HAD IT.. stupid tricolor mirrors smh#SHE WON ANYWAYS OKAYY doodle wasnt meant to be for this region but alright💥💥#Taking back everything Ive ever said about Japan✌️#splatoon 3#splatfest#splatoon#leyko drawz
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all about lily chou-chou (2001)
#all about lily chou chou#film#movie#cinema#art#edit#screencaps#photography#cinematography#00s#indie#japan#shunji iwai#hayato ichihara
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