Fuck me, I have no idea where this goes except Random. It's been that long.

For anyone that cares more about Japan as a country and culture than its ability to churn out media of a particular foreign subculture they partake in, you might find the musings of this expatriate who moved there from America.

More than simply talking about the sights to see, the tourist spots, popular locations and other surface-level stuff like food, he does a wonderful job of digging deep into the culture of the nation right down to its roots. Even if you look beyond the rose-tinted view anime gives you and accept that there are real differences, or even if you have learned about the country outside of such an unreliable medium, you might be intrigued to hear just how different it can be, on a fundamental level.

I decided to post this here because I saw a link in the News board on whaling, and I remembered a particular post from this blog that talked about it objectively. It doesn't condone the dying industry, but it doesn't demonize it either. It helps to understand both sides of a coin before flipping it.

Another one of note talks about the fundamental difference between American individualism and the Japanese view on societal impact, and why we might find them timid or they might find us selfish.

It's all a really interesting way to pass the time, this blog. It's how I more or less spent the first week of work :V

*might find the musings INTERESTING

Good work making run on sentences you can't even keep track of suto

>>2 (shrugs) You could've posted it under the whaling thread I had made.
There are two sides to everything, so I very much appreciate this post.

Sounds interesting. I'll check it out.

So do blogs go on Random now by default?
Furthermore, should we just have a blogs thread instead of filling the board with blog suggestions and descriptions?

>>4 Depends on what kind of blogs...
This I would think is news related, and possibly everything else goes in literature?

>>4 I think we should have a Blog board.

>>1 You'd think people would be more worried about the controversy of nuclear power..speaking of which...which one has been going on for longer? The talks into whaling or nuclear power?

>>4 a dedicated thread for blogs sounds good..though it would get rather messy quite quickly.
If we came up with a key for the topics the blogs are about, by adding a "+" or "-" (or any symbol we can agree on), like "+culture", at the beginning of each post, they'd be easier to find/ sort through? Possibly.

>>3 I was considering that, but it was enough content to warrant a thread of its own. I like his site in general, not just the whaling post. But I did want to address it as well, which is why I referenced it.

I don't really agree with the blog board thing, though... if you want to post your own blog you have the personal board, I guess. Or those threads that accumulate everyone's URLs. This was just a particularly notable one, one worth discussing if you guys wanted to.

>>7 A sorting system? I haven't heard that idea in particular before, actually... that could make things a lot easier. Although, I think a culture board would be nice too, unless that's too broad - culture could be anything from literature to food to sports, etc.

For a short answer to your question though,
"The debate about nuclear power peaked during the 1970s and 1980s" ~Wikipedia
and the IWC was set up in response to whaling endangering and extinguishing species in 1946.
So I guess whales outdate nuclear power controversies. Which shouldn't be a surprise now that i think about it - nuclear power is pretty recent.

This sounds interesting to read. When I'm not busy catching up on YouTube or online web comics I'll give it a try.

>>8 Thanks for searching it up for me, was too lazy to do it myself earlier. Eheh :'D

I copy and pasted the sorting system idea from a different place, to be honest.

Come to think about it, didn't we have a discussions thread or something? To throw around issues and such..can't really remember ._.

Sorting system basically just sounds like tags.

Although, I think that maybe having the tags in the thread titles would make more sense, if you're looking for a particular thread in the archives you could just search for a particular tag instead of the thread's title.

Congratulations, Misu, for not posting something totally retarded or completely meaningless. I was getting sick of all the shitty crap threads in Random recently. I mean, thread games are just...superfluous.

Bump

Bump to stop hate thread.
I don't quit, I will silence hate and evil

>>1 (last linked blog)
Cultural differences always makes things interesting, one way or another..or severely awkward.

>>11 Hmm..sorting title tags for threads could definitely go a long way..It would definitely make searching the archive easier, though that would probably clash with the pre-existing
What do you think about using it in a thread for blogs though?

It'd be interesting if we could somehow get this to work, no?

>>13 What? ._.

I lived in Japan. It's a beautiful country with lots of fun stuff to do but it's a bit overhyped by anime. Still, awesome country.