Showing posts with label Japanese society. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Japanese society. Show all posts
Friday, September 23, 2022

“Kuyo” Memorial Service for victims, animals, dolls, needles in Japan

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When Japanese people pray and give something for the spirits of the dead, it's called "kuyo" or "irei". It is not o...
Thursday, August 19, 2021

Things to do When I’m 50

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When I turned 50 last year (2020), I was more shocked than when I turned 40. The average life expectancy for healthy Japanese males is 72.14...
Sunday, April 18, 2021

The traditional Asian manner of counting one's age called 'kazoedoshi'（数え年）

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What’s kazoedoshi（数え年）? Photo by Jisun Han on Unsplash Age counting method When you’re born, you are 1 year old When the new year c...
Sunday, January 24, 2021

Crime nation U.S.A. or earthquake nation Japan: which is safer?

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The U.S. sees around 15,000 victims of murder every year.  Japan sometimes sees vast number of victims from a single earthquake; 6,437 in 19...
Saturday, August 15, 2020

How Japan started the war with the US

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This article is based on Kazutoshi Hanto's "Showashi (The History of Showa) " for organizing a part of Japanese history with...
Sunday, July 19, 2020

How common are job transfers away from their family in Japan?

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It is not rare that Japanese businessmen (not including businesswomen) experience job transfers away from their family. They live alone away...
Sunday, May 17, 2020

World Coronavirus death rate per capita yields a discovery

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In communicating with friends overseas, all of them talked about Coronavirus. In Japan, people also talk about the virus daily. Therefore,...