Somehow I succeeded to upgrade my fishy E-blog tonight. HTML codes really annoyed me a lot, it sucks all the time I tried to change my blog's appearance...phew!! Uh, Oscar Awards...I can't watch the program on live Bcoz we don't have SkyPerfecTV or some other channels provides various foreign TV shows. But I agree with your insight 'bout the winners - it might be noticed to all the nominees and so winners can act or make a good speech for that. As for other contests or awards in overseas and here in Japan, I'm quite doubtful. It looks sometimes dirty and cheezy, pretended-great-show-performance! Anyway, some of my blog-mates live in other countries + foreign residents in Japan are really interested in something Japanese, I realized...they always ask me 'bout "ANIME" or "KIMONO", absolutely obsessed with Japanese cultures!...though I like wearing kimono in a stage. Anime Inquiry really makes me feel strange or odd, thay knows 'bout it far better than native-Japanese or me, actually... I have no idea why they're so much in love with such "Otak-kish"(おたくっぽい!) Anime charactors. How 'bout you japanman?! I only love films created by fine directors like Hayao Miyazaki or someone. "Howl's moving Castle", his latest film was really fantastic & so cool!! I love it!
Interesting subject you bring up. Actually, my interest in Japanese culture must have started when I was 8-10 years old. We used to watch 'R Star Blazers (宇宙船かんやまと)and Robotech (Macross). To me, it was just a natural thing. Also, I lived on the west cost where many people from Asian countries immigrated. Actually, most of my friends were from Taiwan, or Japan.
I think Japan/China have a certain 'mystic' to the western mind set. A big part of this is the HUGE difference in language. Chinese script is cool to look at. You can notice the influence when you go to a sporting goods store in the US. You will find baseball hats with Kanji on them. Many Americans even use Kanji as tattoos!
I think that everyone is an おたく about some subject. It is hard not to be about interesting things.
Some of them were acceptable, but others I thought it didn't appeal to native Japanese people, honestly to say. Also I heard there are full of mistakes in Kanji signs or tattoos in overseas - just like it can be found here in Japan's odd English ones! (I hate them :( ) Hmm...Anime seems rather popular then its birthplace here, I realized somehow by your comments and my foreign friends' addict to them. Spanish guys are really have a plenty of knowledge about Japan/Asian stuffs - maybe lively from something... And one of my good blog-mate in your country also loves Gundam + other robot stuffs...he's my blog's earliest browser actually, and our communication starts from Anime & J-pop favorites. foreigners brings a lot of 'mistic's to me, born and grew up in Japan's rural city Niigata. But I like the way connecting each other by blogging, coz we can exchange our thoughts by posting comments each other - so nice!
Shiitake Sensei(My current nickname)
(2005/03/03 09:32:11 PM)
Internationalization. That is what it is all about man.
In Chinese, there is a proverb called 各有所長 It mean that everybody, or place has it's strong points. I'm sure that we can find strong points, points of interest etc.. In many countries.