Caring for old dogs in Japan
Text analysis of LS01
Japanese documentary on Zagreb, Croatia
yr 4 text
Cool Japan -- Japanese TV series. This episode looks at 'decoration' in Japan. Superb feature is a truck driver's massive decoration of the Virgin Mary plastered... well, painted, gloriously all over his truck. Bauble-encrusted keitais, gold-plated food, nado nado. Oh, and if you ever send a Japanese friend a proper Christmas cake, and it has a notice 'Remove decoration before eating', make sure you tell them it's only referring to the silk ribbon, the plastic holly, etc. Otherwise they'll remove the icing like my friends did! Oh, ambiguity.
Analysis of LS3
Meanings of 'hashi'. This is in yr 2 Little Stories, L17. Had I made titles beyond 10, this would of course have been A Bridge Too Far.
Japanese guy in Santa suit asks a girl to go out with him and shows his courage by bunji-jumping off a high bridge.
Machikado (machi=street, kado=(external) corner) - a 4min slot on the news showing what's new on the market. Obento=lunchbox
Living in Japan -- Shopping
Chibimaruko-chan
課外授業ようこそ先輩 http://www.nhk.or.jp/kagaijugyou/list/list1.html The guy responsible for the Japanese song version of an old pome (see e.g. here http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=WEZBDNV3h9I) goes back to his old school to take his kouhai, some 45 years younger than him, through a very moving experience of tasting a kind of death, and of finding a role in life. Excellent.
kotoba ojisan explains the new meanig of yabai
The latest goods in the Japanese market for keeping cool in summer.
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Living in Japan |SHOPPING
Analysis of text Little Stories ch2
Too much head? Are beer bubbles beer, legally speaking? During the war, a drinker discontented with the volume of his glass taken up by the head on his pint decided to take the publican to court.
'Allegorical Aquarium'. When Fourth Year student Joseph McNally saw Harry Hill chide a member of the audience for suggesting 'Crisps', with 'Crisps? It's not a system, is it?... Broaden it to snacks, and now you're talking', he recalled Year One classes on Classification and Nomenclature. We could go on for hours discussing this; whether 'allegorical' has any justification other than its alliterative resonance with 'aquarium'; if we could make up a 'Metaphorical Museum', etc... but since we're not getting paid, we won't.
Cool Japan - "Symbol" The ubiquitous emergency exit sign that we are all familiar with is of Japanese design, and there are lots more great designs here; compare the 'Meeting Point' signs designed by different countries and you'll laugh at most of them -- and the Japanese one is a clear winner. Oh, and it was an interesting personal experience: I was watching this guy talking, and didn't think anything about it... then thought 'I know that voice...'... I looked again... it reminded me of someone I knew... an old student of mine.. was it Eddie? Yes! It was! Good ol' Eddie! And it was confirmed when I heard him so called, and then saw his name tag. Good ol' Eddie. I think I've put his graduation video up here or on Youtube; yes, it's there -- search the same name as here, i.e. 'johnfused'.
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