Foreigners tend to all say the same thing about Japan because, well, everybody else says the same thing, so it must be true. But the grammar-translation method actually does work. Maybe it’s not the fastest method, but hey, it gets the job done. Well, mostly. I was at a soba ...
Japanese people don’t study much about other races and cultures, do they?” (American woman) "At first, I was happy when Japanese people gave me compliments like ‘You are good at using chopsticks’ and ‘You speak Japanese very well.’ However, now that I have been i...
It inspired a train of thought about why I could never live in Japan. Before I published this post, I ran the ideas below by some expat friends. I wanted them to tell me I was off my rocker, and to give me a different perspective. Instead they said “Nora, we would really like ...
There are several reasons why India is a poor country. Some have historical roots and others derive strength from socio-political structures. Lack of effective governance and corruption has only sustained Indian poverty.
shorter than usual (two days instead of three) and in part because of the long efforts to find common ground on contentious areas, the communique was much less ambitious than in past years, totalling just six pages, compared with 36 for the communique from last year's summit in Japan. ...
Japan more geographically isolated from the historical center of China (in the South) never played a similar role in Asia. Nowhere is the importance of the competition between states more clearly demonstrated than during the Second World War. So much innovation took place in that seven year span...
Many other countries, besides those in the Eurozone, are experiencing low currencies relative to the dollar. Some examples include Argentina, India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Turkey, Japan, and South Korea. China has problems with developers of condominium homes for its citizen. Many of t...
Classical Chinese used to be the literary language of Japan, Korea and Vietnam for almost two thousand years. For example, old Vietnamese literature was written in Chinese characters, following Classical Chinese grammar, but using Sino-Vietnamese pronunciation. ...
Japan saw the handwriting on the wall ten years ago, and abandoned quantitative easing for deflation because they knew that they were in direct competition with China and Korea. 1000 Yen apples were not going to lead to prosperity. America on the other hand is addicted to the cheap fix… Fo...
So then why was 1997 such a magic number? Well, that was the year another financial crisis began, this time in Asia. Most of the money that had come in was from South Korea, which saw the U.S. as a “flight to safety.” Because L.A. had a large Korean community, many Koreans...