Sunday, July 27, 2014

Japanese lifestyle Karaoke

  Karaoke is made in Japan.
  If you come to Japan, you can find many karaoke bar in the city.
  I went to a karaoke bar in my hometown.



   We was in 1.5 hours in the room. It was 2500 yen.
 Karaoke is one of the popular leisure in Japan.
   We go to Karaoke to get rid of the stresses.
   Japanese people like to go to Karaoke bar with friends or family.

Sunday, July 13, 2014

Japanese traditional culture

  Today, I introduce a custom when you go to someone's funeral.
You scatter salt on your body before you enter your home.
The meaning of this act is that you purify your body by
doing so.
  The mourner need to prepare salt packed in a package for the
attendants. When people die, we usually do two different kinds of
funeral. Otsuya and Osousiki(funeral).
  I  can not translate otsuya because the custom is unique
in Japanese culture.
  In Japanese culture, salt is used to purify something.
  For example, you can see Sumo wrestlers scatter salt
at the sumo wrestling ring before the battle.
  That has the meaning of purifying the ring before the battle.
  Sumo is a Japanese national sport. And sumo used to connected
with religious thing in early age.

Monday, July 7, 2014

Japanese lifestyle Taue

  In my hometown, it is the season of  rice-planting.
As you see on the photo, water is put into the irrigated rice fields.



  The landscape is nice, isn't it?
  You see a lot of tadpoles in the field. And you can listen to the
songs sung by a lot of frogs at midnight.
  You can not experience these things in Tokyo.
  You have to stay in country side.
  I hear many foreign people like here, Gunma prefecture because
we can see a lot of good scenery of nature.