Welcome to the Land Of the Rising Son
There is no other place in the universe like Japan.
With a culture thousands of years old and a most esoteric language, Japan will remain an enigma to the others.
To understand the true nature of the Japanese, one must live among them, but even then, there remains layers upon layers of a cryptic culture and arcane society, the “nooks and crannies” if you will.
Living in the countryside of Japan allows for a unique perspective into the Way of the Japanese.
Welcome to Japan, let’s join to explore the nooks and crannies of the Japanese Heart, Spirit, and Mind.
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Who are the Japanese?
One of the most misunderstood civilization, this island nation of 126 million inhabitants remains somewhat mysterious to the outside world.
An ancient cultures, the Japanese are masters at assimilating, molding, and improving foreign concepts into something uniquely Japanese.
Why is this so?
DNA
Here you will find some keys to open your question door, and there, you will only come to find, yet another layer, and another, and so on.
Welcome to the Land Of The Rising Son.
Latest From The Blog
Thoughts and musing about life and Japan.
Geekfest ‘89
In the early days of Apple in Japan, the first computer came via the Canon salesman—Macintosh IIci, Hewlett-Packard DeskWriter C, and Photoshop 1.0 to begin creating digital art—1.5 million yen for this innovative technology in 1989 sounded like a true bargain right from the start.
Bottleneck
The samurai salaryman of the roaring 80s had plump, juicy expense accounts—¥100,000 on company-sponsored nights out in the nooks and crannies of bars, snacks, and soapland—making business deals while carousing around, blind to the natural flow of things—as surely as the party starts, surely it will end.
Number None
An Incidental Occidental, a savage stinking of grass-fed butter—a challenge to the delicate senses of the Japanese citizens who pride themselves on subtlety, restraint, and the ancient notion of wabi-sabi—if more than anything but a transient tourist, must be catalogued and tracked—for this was the law of the sacred Yamato island.
