J-WOTD: 若い燕Beige on Apr 30 2007 | Filed under: WOTD - Japanese
わかいつばめ (wakai tsubame)
* “J-WOTD” = “Japanese Word of the Day”
Since antiquity the sparrow has always been seen as a bird of love in the west. It was associated in classical mythology with Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, and Catullus, the Roman poet, famously used the sparrow as a symbol of true love and spiritual [...]
Bone on Apr 28 2007 | Filed under: Japan: Only in Japan
Yet another “Only in Japan” story, but we just had to delve deeper into this one! According to many of the foreign press outlets this week, hundreds, possibly thousands of Japanese women have been conned into buying baby lambs, which they thought were in fact poodles. Coming from a background where an annual highlight is [...]
Prison in Japan: Part 7 “The Driver”Blue on Apr 27 2007 | Filed under: Japan: Life
A Japanese Punch Perm - like the driver’sThis is stippy’s seventh part in a series (see also parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6) about one foreigner’s experience of being put in a Japanese prison (留置場 or “ryuchijyo”, a prison for locking up people for as long as 23 days until they are convicted, [...]
“I take this man to be my lawfully wedded husband”… Except when politics intervenes!Red on Apr 24 2007 | Filed under: Japan: Politics
What name will I get?Although Japan is clearly far behind the west in Women’s lib, the emergence of Doi Takako in the 90s and several female politicians in Koizumi’s cabinet has helped push along the plight of the average Japanese woman. But sometimes there is more to these posts than meets the eye.
Over the [...]
Pink on Apr 22 2007 | Filed under: Japan: Only in Japan
Privatization of the Japan postal service
J-WOTD: 二枚目 （にまいめ）Ao on Apr 20 2007 | Filed under: WOTD - Japanese
二枚目 or nimaime is the handsome guy here ↑にまいめ (nimaime)
* “J-WOTD” = “Japanese Word of the Day”
For some reason, the Japanese language has many words to describe good looking men. かっこいい, ハンサム, イケメン, 美少年, and Kansai-ben’s 男前 are quite a selection, proving that Japanese can be more expressive that English when it comes to certain [...]
Blue on Apr 18 2007 | Filed under: Japan: News and Media
This article is a rare (for stippy) direct quote from another article on Yahoo but we thought that is is interesting for our readers also, as we have written quite extensively on the Yakuza and their recent dramas in Japan, and given a locals insight surrounding some of ongoings of the Yamaguchi-gumi and Sumiyoshikai in [...]
What Should I Do? More on AIDS in JapanRed on Apr 17 2007 | Filed under: Japan: Life
Remember the Grim Reaper AIDS campaigns of the ’80s?Late last year Pink shared with us the eye-opening story of his friend who found out that he had been dating a girl infected with HIV, and the story of his soul search while he waited for his own test results. After reading the number of [...]
Prison in Japan: Part 6 “The Guards”Blue on Apr 15 2007 | Filed under: Japan: Life
This is stippy’s sixth part in a series (see also parts 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5) about one foreigner’s experience of being put in a Japanese prison (留置場 or “ryuchijyo”, a prison for locking up people for as long as 23 days until they are convicted, or cleared of a crime).
Below is the continuation [...]
Silver on Apr 12 2007 | Filed under: Japan: People and Society
It seems a number of the people tuning in to Stippy are married and have kids. I, also a parent living in Tokyo, just checked out an old site that I used to look at for News on Japan. Aptly it is called newsonjapan.com. Looking at the society section I wanted to check if a [...]