Current Affairs 1
I'd like to review the Current Affairs class here once in a week.
1. Retail prices of regular gasoline rose above 140 yen per liter. This hike is from Middle East problem and high demands in China and India. What a pein in the neck!
2. Yuko Matsuoka, the Japanese translator of "Harry Potter" is suspected to avoid paying tax. This kind of person is called "tax exile" or ""tax expatriate" (a rich person who has left their own country and gone to live in a place where the taxes are lower).
3. North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has taken his former secretary as his new wife after his former spouse died two years ago.
4. The Japanese goverment gave the go-ahead to resumption of importing US beef which has been stopped concerning BSE, the mad cow disease.
5. California is suffering record high of heat wave, and production of milk in California, the number-one dairy producer in the nation, is down.
6. Israel continues air strikes against Hizbollah, a terrorist group in Lebanon. US supports Israel because there are many powerful Jews in America. UN is too weak and America is too strong.
We finished reading the article "Infantile Japan seen redlining cute gauge" on the Japan Times. Somehow the teacher chose the topic related to our dramatic debate class in which we discuss the matter of Japanese subculture, Otaku cultrure!
I think the word "kawaii" can't be translated as cute or pretty. Japanese tend to be harmony with others and "kawaii" is an easy and useful word for them becuase it doesn't hurt others, just indicating having a similar feeling and understandings.
The techer said Otaku culture is a kind of escapism (an activity, a form of entertainment, etc. that helps you avoid or forget unpleasant or boring things).
Now I seek for the article written by Takashi Murakami on The Issues for Japan (日本の論点) 2004 in which he insists that Japanese childishness could be advantage. I read somewhere that Shoji Kokami, a Japanese playwrite and director, said around late 80's that it's only manga, game and dance that Japanese could take pride in as Japanese culture after the war. Is he a man of foresight really?
1. Retail prices of regular gasoline rose above 140 yen per liter. This hike is from Middle East problem and high demands in China and India. What a pein in the neck!
2. Yuko Matsuoka, the Japanese translator of "Harry Potter" is suspected to avoid paying tax. This kind of person is called "tax exile" or ""tax expatriate" (a rich person who has left their own country and gone to live in a place where the taxes are lower).
3. North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has taken his former secretary as his new wife after his former spouse died two years ago.
4. The Japanese goverment gave the go-ahead to resumption of importing US beef which has been stopped concerning BSE, the mad cow disease.
5. California is suffering record high of heat wave, and production of milk in California, the number-one dairy producer in the nation, is down.
6. Israel continues air strikes against Hizbollah, a terrorist group in Lebanon. US supports Israel because there are many powerful Jews in America. UN is too weak and America is too strong.
We finished reading the article "Infantile Japan seen redlining cute gauge" on the Japan Times. Somehow the teacher chose the topic related to our dramatic debate class in which we discuss the matter of Japanese subculture, Otaku cultrure!
I think the word "kawaii" can't be translated as cute or pretty. Japanese tend to be harmony with others and "kawaii" is an easy and useful word for them becuase it doesn't hurt others, just indicating having a similar feeling and understandings.
The techer said Otaku culture is a kind of escapism (an activity, a form of entertainment, etc. that helps you avoid or forget unpleasant or boring things).
Now I seek for the article written by Takashi Murakami on The Issues for Japan (日本の論点) 2004 in which he insists that Japanese childishness could be advantage. I read somewhere that Shoji Kokami, a Japanese playwrite and director, said around late 80's that it's only manga, game and dance that Japanese could take pride in as Japanese culture after the war. Is he a man of foresight really?
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