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city-cost · 2 months

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It’s amazing how quickly you can switch from the booming scale of the buildings and businesses immediately out front of Shinagawa station to the local intimacy of the streets around the Kitahon district.

#japan #tokyo #japan blogs #asia #street photography #tumblr japan #travel #city #places #backstreets #life in japan #東京 #shinagawa

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ikana-ko · 2 months

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Katamari pop up store in Umeda LOFT

2.16-3.5

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daily-hyosatsu · 2 months

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So I have a (somewhat goofy) kanji name to use for websites that don't accept kana names, because that's not that uncommon even in the year of our Lord 2024. But I recently encountered something really unusual, something I hadn't seen in nigh on 15 years of living here: a website that required my birth year in the Japanese calendar! As a required field. Wild. Do you know what year you were born?

You probably know that in addition to the Western calendar 西暦 [せいれき], Japan also uses 和暦 [われき] (or 年号 [ねんごう]), which are eras named after the reigning emperor. So when you have to write the date in any official documentation, you often see this.

(Cropped from a random medical intake form on Google Images.)

This a standard field for birthdate, or 生年月日 [せいねんがっぴ]. The characters 明・大・昭・平・令 each stand for an era.

明 for 明治 Meiji, 1868–1912

大 for 大正 Taishō, 1912–1926

昭 for 昭和 Shōwa, 1926–1989

平 for 平成 Heisei, 1989–2019

令 for 令和 Reiwa, 2019 to present

(Plus sometimes 西 for 西暦 )

As an example, I've filled it out for a fire rabbit (a 1987 baby! a very good year), born on tumblr's favorite holiday.

That's Heisei 62 for the year 年, November for the month 月, and 5th for the day 日, giving an age of 36 years (36歳 [さんじゅうろくさい]) and 4 months (４ヶ月 [よんかげつ]).

So what's to stop you from just writing the Western year? Generally, nothing! Lots of people do it (I think). Just make sure to write all four digits to avoid confusion with the one- or two-digit Japanese years and you should be okay....... Except for this one, once in 1.5 decades form that actually made it the required format. I wish I'd thought to take a screenshot! Now I can't even remember where it was because I'm working 12-hour days and my brain is broken!

In conclusion, you can look your birth year up here! The site may look pretty barebones, but it's very useful for converting Japanese numbers, traditional units, etc.

P.S. - I was going to end this post with a birth year poll (because I love polls), but once I started to make it, I realized that anyone who isn't Heisei or Shōwa is basically either a preschooler or a centenarian and is probably not on this website. Oh well.

#life in japan #no names just vibes

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triaelf9comiclibrary · 7 months

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The amount of people who talk about Japan like it's heaven on earth (or, conversely, the worst place known to man), it feels like they need to see Japan a certain way, so they turn it into whatever they need it to be when it’s just A COUNTRY.

No, no one is getting deported for taking pictures. Yes, you are likely to be deported for smoking weed. The toilets are very fancy! Some of the infrastructure is very much not. Yes, some of the societal norms are stricter in some senses than, say, the US. But there are also a number of people who ignore them and don’t follow the “rules”. One person’s experience in Japan is likely to be completely different from another, depending on where they are, who they are, where they’re from, what they look like, etc.

So if you see a one off tweet about the “wisdom of the Japan” or like “THERE ARE NO PERSONAL FREEDOMS” just remember that it’s just a country, this is likely over exaggerated, and it’s a place that people live in, just like where you live ^_^

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nanairomiso · 18 days

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Osaka Castle Park Spring 2024

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oldedo · 1 month

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I often think how lucky younger folks are to be born in a country and in an era when being bi or homosexual is more or less accepted. Certainly more so than when I was young and growing up. I didn't even know what gay was until my early teens---and the word used back then was not "gay." It was years later that I could finally accept that I was tending strongly toward gay, if I must label myself. More accurately I enjoyed going to bed with men much more than the experiences I had with women. I still rejected that idea when I first began intimate relationships (or one-night stands) with men. Homosexual? No, not me! Sometimes I think how different my life would have been had I been able to love whomever I wished. But that's all past. I Japan, no matter the gibberish we can read in media, gays have not been accepted. They were never fully rejected either to the extent they have been in some other countries---and those are not only western countries. There was never the strong religious basis for most, but it is still mostly considered more of a fetish that people could control enough to get married and have a family. Play time is over, it's time to grow up and get serious. I still know lots of married guys who are secretly gay (or not so secretly) to their wives but go out seeking men. That in and of itself is nothing special to Japan, but it is still going strongly in 2024. I suspect there has been no gigantic change among younger men as I know several who are married but frequent gay bars or clubs or places such as 24 Kaikan in Shinjuku. Most guys, and I suppose gals, are not "out."

I adapted years ago. The slight changes even in Japan are an improvement, but there is still a ways to go to get where I wish things had been back in Appalachia when I was growing up,

#original photographers #photographers on tumblr #expatlife #gay in japan #appalachian men #life in japan #male physique #male photography #male form #male aesthetic #men #masculine

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ii-memori · 14 days

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横断歩道を渡ろう

#🌸#photographers on tumblr #Japan #life in Japan #日本 #Sakura #photography #my photos

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triaelf9 · 10 months

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Hakama are the BEST and if I could wear them every day, I would ^_^ (no, they're not a skort, no they're not flants, they are way better, there is no equal)

Enjoy!

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yomoya-girl · 6 months

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They were selling demon slayer “omiyage” (presents) at one of the station shops in the middle of Japan’s countryside 🥺

Would you buy them?

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ross-hori · 3 months

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Smoke wafts through Myohoji Temple in Kobe.

#photography #street photography #japan #kobe #street photo #original photographers #My Stuff #Temple #Life in Japan #FujiFilm

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sleepy-cephalopod-studies · 6 months

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Accidentally had a bunch of parents and kids at my local culture festival concerned for me a few weeks ago lol

So my junior high held their culture festival and I got to order some food for the two days I was there. You write what you want and send the money in an envelope to the vice principal, and I got tickets for my menu items. I saw on the menu that they had コーンパン (literally corn bread), and my Southern US self got very hyped because I didn't even know they HAD cornbread in Japan! But they seem to have corn dishes in a lot of cuisine, so I thought it made sense. So I order corn bread.

I get my bento bag and am expecting the bread of my childhood, cornbread. Warm, fluffy, like a brownie but made of cornmeal in all its redneck and indigenous-origins glory.

My friends and fellow hoes, I did not receive cornbread. I received...Japanese cornbread.

Now on its face, I like the three components of this food. I like corn. Of course I do, I'm American, we put corn in everything. I like mayo. I love bread. But when you are a Texan, you're already missing some cultural aspects of your home like its cuisine, and you are expecting CORNBREAD, and you get this?

I spent a solid thirty seconds just blinking at this corn bun and I looked so dejected that multiple students near me asked if I was okay. I live in a first-person perspective like everyone else but I imagine my face was similar to this:

#japan #alt #living in japan #life in japan #teaching english in japan

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city-cost · 5 months

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Early autumn leaves viewing in a damp Yoro-Keikoku Valley in the heart of Chiba's Boso Peninsula, near Tokyo, Sunday.

#japan blogs #travel #life in japan #japan #japanese culture #autumn leaves #fall leaves #autumn vibes #autumn japan #tumblr japan #japantrip #chiba #places #aesthetics

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ikana-ko · 24 days

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吉野山

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daily-hyosatsu · 1 month

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When you get to big numbers, the Japanese counting system starts to differ from English. I am not a numbers person, so when I have numbers in my work, I double check constantly. Usually I use on SLJ FAQ, but today I used Jisho and I found this interesting hiccup.

The second suggestion is fine! 2000万 [にせんまん] does mean 20,000,000. It does NOT, however, mean 平成12年 [へいせいじゅうにねん], or the year 2000. (More about the years thing here.)

To get into it, 万 means 10,000. It's usually read マン or バン, but sometimes it's よろず. We've covered its archaic form 萬, and you probably know the exclamation 万歳 banzai. It literally means eternal life and prosperity, but in practical use, it means "Hooray!," to cheer, or the gesture of throwing one's hands up (in either celebration or defeat... or, you know, on a roller coaster or whatever).

But as a number, it also happens to be where the counting system starts to change. Let me borrow a graphic:

Yuck. Maybe you're saying, "Well, these are big numbers, I'm not gonna encounter them that often," I am very sorry to tell you that the yen is counted in CENTS, so if something costs $10, its price is four figures. And with current exchange rates, 10K comes into play around the $66 mark. So you have to learn the big numbers, even if you hate it! Sorry!

#learning japanese #life in japan #i am so. uncomfortable with numbers #i checked this at least 百万回 and i am SURE there still have to be errors #and i didnt even make the graphic.......#what a nightmare

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triaelf9comiclibrary · 9 months

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