#2 Death & Funerals

#1.1 In Japan, most people wrap their lunch box, and so do I.
When I went to Australia, they didn't wrap their lunch box.
This is interesting...
I do wrap because the wrap is used for napkin.

#2.1 I have never been to a forein funeral.
How would I express condolences to my international friends or a host family...
I would say "I'm sorry for your lost".


#2.2. The language of Clothes :
a.Why are Japanese designer label crazy? Why is what you wear so important?
I do not know, but I think that they think unique design is nice.
What you wear shows your character, image and so on, I think.
So, what you wear is important.

b.What does “Don’t judge a book by it’s cover.” mean to you?
We don' to have to dicide what it is just see its outside.
So..we cannot understant it until we know the inside.

#1 Where do you go when you die?

I think I would go to a world which exsists in the sky aboooove .
We cannot see it from here.
There are no war, and no conflict.
So it is a peaceful world.
My family, friends, neighbor...
everyone go there and meet again.
I hope that what I am saying would be true...

why do Japanese have death memorial services 1 month, 1 year, 3 years, 7 years, etc. after a person's death?
I think these day are for the person to pray.

Class #14 Politics and Reflections

If I were working for the UN, I would like to work at UNIC, UN information center as a translater. So, I'd like to translate articles about what Japanese people think about the UN into English, and show them to the other country.

Working with different cultures

I don't know what kind of work I will best in.

Then I'll introduce one aspect of different buisiness culutures between Japan and Germany.

In Japan, basically, worker in company start to work from 9:00 to 17:00.

On the otherhand, in Germany, the buisiness culture is flexible, for it is usual that they are late more than 1 hour! And also, some people go home around 15:00 in some cases.

Unbileavable !!!

I think Japanese is too serious...

#12

Feelings

1.Are feelings, emotions and facial expressions universal across borders, happy, sad, etc..?
I think these expressions universal.
happy---smile.
sad---cry, look at the ground
angry---frowning face

2. Try to name as many feelings as possible in Japanese.
うれしい　　　 delightful
たのしい　　 joyful
くやしい frustrated
こわい afraid
なさけない miserable
しんどい hard feelings
しあわせ happy
ここちよい comfortable
めんどくさい bothered
たいへんだ oh, no!
どうしよう oh my god
おどろく suprised
あんしんする relief
うらやましい enviable
ざいあくかん guilty feeling
こうふん heat
なやむ worry
きんちょう nervous
まよう dither


3. Are there any feelings in Japanese that cannot be translated into English?
きょうしゅく
おかげさま
おそれいる
うちひしがれる（？）

I think there are more feelings in Japanese like above and vice versa.
In that case, we might have different mentalities.

Greeting

1. How do you greet members of your family?
-I just say "ohayou". I don't bow to my family!

2. How do you greet people that are important in society?
-I say "ohayougozaimasu" with bowing and smile.

3. Do you greet people from the opposite sex in a different way?
-No. I do the same way.

4. Do you hug anyone? If yes, who and when. If no, why not?
-Yes. When I meet forigners' friends, I do that.
But in Japan, I don't because it depends on cultures.