Study for the JPT

Posted by harvey in Culture on 24. Nov, 2003 | No Comments

I’m studying for the Japanese Proficiency Exam which is coming up in December. I have never taken the test before, but I’m gonna take Level 1, the hardest level. I do this because I’m a genius, or really really stupid. I’ll let you know when I get the results. Studying for this thing though is [...]

Japanese Jokes

Posted by harvey in Culture on 15. Nov, 2003 | No Comments

Hey guys. I can make Japanese jokes, the type of joke that I enjoy is called, 駄洒落 (dajyare) or, 親父ギャグ (oyaji gag) I’ll show you a few examples, then I’ll describe how they work. Note these, jokes are usually plays on words… Japanese words… so translating them usually destroys them… not there is always much [...]

French in Japan

Posted by harvey in Culture on 09. Nov, 2003 | No Comments

Way out of your territory… Some things just weren’t meant to be. And when they do happen, they’re incredibly strange. Unnatural. I have worked in Japan for about one year, and spent about 5 months working in Prais up until a few months ago. I had heard it before, but one of the interesting things [...]

Poopie Swap

Posted by harvey in Culture on 01. Nov, 2003 | No Comments

Today I heard an especially funny story from a Japanese man… He told me that about forty years ago, while he was in school, he played a prank that had the school in a fit for a week. This story is funny on so many levels… According to this man, about 40 years ago in [...]


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