Top Ten Sexy Japanese Girls
If you do a search on You tube will will find plenty of video clips of the following Japanese idols and Japanese models
Reon Kadena – One of the most popular Japanese bikini models in Japan. Apparently she is all over Youtube at the moment.
Waka Inoue – A very popular TV personality and bikini model. She seams to be doing more TV work than modeling now. She is big breasted and has that classic Japanese comic book (animie) face.
Eriko Sato – A gorgeous former bikini model and the most beautiful you could lay your eyes on. She is now an actress and seems to be getting some recognition. Check her out in the movie “Cutie Honey”.
Eiko Koike – A popular talent/actress. She always seems to be on late night TV. Agani, a former bikini model. Not as slim as most bikini models, but very voluptuous. She has worked as a ring side commentator for PRIDE Fighting Championships
Harumi Nemote – a”retired” bikini model. She is still one of the foremost sexy idols in Japan probably due to her huge breasts.
Yumiko Shaku – Another model turn actress Yumiko has a huge fun base. Loves anime and martial arts.
Miho Toshioka – A race queen/model turned actress who has appeared in a Godzilla movie. She recently married a former cross dressing rock star.
Erina Yamaguchi – A new bikini idol. As all can say is she is getting a huge fan base with her “J-cup” sized breasts.
Mika Orihara – a race queen and bikini model. She has a cute child like voice.
Junko Fukuda – a cute and sexy bikini model. She appears on a strange late night TV show called the Miniskirt Police
Kanji characters have a certain mystic that attract many people to have one or several tattooed to their body. I recently met a young girl who wasn’t really interested in Japan or learning Japanese, but loved, in her words, Kanji symbols. She was very proud of the Kanji character tattooed on her hip. She told me it meant “power”. I didn’t have the heart to tell that the kanji was wrong. Somehow she ended up with a pretty much meaningless Kanji on its own. It is used with other Kanji to mean cooperation, association and and whatnot. I wondered if she had fallen victim to a nasty practical joke or if what she wanted was lost on translation.
You might feel justified making the assumption that tattoo artists know Kanji and would do the research for their customers. However, most tattoo artists know little about Japan, Japanese culture and Kanji. A Japanese friend told me about an American he met who had a tattoo on his bicep that translated meant “council worker”. The American thought it mean “samurai”. As you can imagine he wasn’t very happy when he found out.
Don’t let this happen to you. If you going to get a tattoo it is up to you to do through research. It is up to you to make sure you are getting exactly what you want. A good place to start is David Mc Gimpsey’s My Japanese Tattoo ebook.
You could also get some Japanese friends to help you out with choosing the right Japanese Kanji character. You could also consider getting a kana character – either a hiragana or katakana symbol. Kana symbols on their own don’t really represent anything, but some do look very cool.
Japanese Kanji
Japanese Kanji, although based on Chinese Kanji, is indeed unique. Many Kanji do represent meaningful and beautiful cultural values, ideas and concepts unique only to Japan. Some Kanji look incredibly beautiful. There is nothing quite like watching a Shoudoka, a Japanese calligraphy master, put brush to paper. Keep in mind most Kanji just represent or mean the same old words we use everyday. Some Kanji don’t even mean that much just on there own. If you are considering getting a Kanji tattoo you obviously want to make sure you get it right. You don’t want to be parading some bizarre Japanese symbol around.
I can honestly say that after living in Japan for ten years I have never experienced any racism in Japan. Racism is almost non existent in Japan. I am talking about hate driven racism. Discrimination , however, is something common place and not just limited to non-Japanese living in Japan. The group, not the individual, is primary importance in Japanese society. As a result minority groups and individuals are discriminated in Japan, including Japanese.
When applied to Japanese society, equality is often take to mean that one is treated just like other members in a group to which one belongs, and fair treatment is guaranteed as long as one observes the groups internal rules. If you are not of the group then you won’t be treated equally. Not being part of a group or not being allowed to part of a group is known as “nakama-hazure”. In most countries this type of behavior would be typical in the school yard. In Japan it is common place regardless of age.
Bullying is recognized as a huge problem in Japan. Japanese are conditioned to be homogeneous from a very young to such a degree that anyone who doesn’t fit in is somewhat deserving of being bullied. Without a doubt, Japanese who voluntarily deviate from mainstream norms are subject to discrimination usually due to sexuality, religious beliefs and political views and academic backgrounds.
To the majority of Japanese, the worst way in which they can be discriminated against is by what is referred to as “mura-hachibu” or village ostracism. In olden times, this meant to be excluded from social interaction with other in one’s village. In modern Japan, it means to be excluded from one’s group, so that members are likely to face difficulties. They may not be invited to social gatherings. They may not be offered help when needed. They may have delayed promotions at work, and so on.
Being An Outsider
I often feel fortunate to be a minority living in Japan. Japanese have no expectation of me to be Japanese in any manner. So I am free of cultural complexities such as “giri” and “enryo”. There have been moments were discrimination has boarded on racism, but I know that I am and always will be an outsider in Japan so I rarely take such social discrimination personally. I have been refused service in bars and shops, my Japanese has been made fun of, car doors have been locked by drivers as I have walked by their running cars, and strangers have ignored my request for directions on the odd occasion. Nothing too terrible, but just reminders that I am not of the majority.
So expect a little discrimination when you come to Japan and try not to take it personally. Keep in mind, that anyone in Japan, such as minority groups, can be subject to discrimination in Japanese society. The Japanese concepts of equality and discrimination are defined by feelings based on case-by-case situations rather than by clear-cut laws and/or principles.
Kanji…to learn it or not to learn it – that is your question. Learning to read Kanji at a level equivalent to a native Japanese speaker does take a considerable amount of effort, commitment and most of all time. If you are wanting to read a Japanese newspaper or get to level where you can enter a Japanese university, then you are on very long road to Kanji proficiency.
Being able to read Japanese has numerous benefits and I certainly recommend learning Kanji if you desire to speak Japanese. I often tell new students of Japanese to think about learning Kanji in terms of a very beneficial learning process rather than just a means to be able to read Japanese.
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Here is a letter from a student I got a while back in Japan. I thought I would share it with you.
Dear Nick,
Thank you so much for your enjoyable lessons every time! After class last week, I was thinking about what you told us. I do understand you have some stressful life in Japan. I know travelling and living in another country is quite different. I think Japanese people are generally kind and friendly but it would be hard for the people from other countries to live in Japan. The way of life, the tradition, local customs, human relations, and so on.
Tajimi is a small town and we hardly get to know non-Japanese people in everyday life, and most of us speak only Japanese. If you lived in some other big cities like Tokyo, Kobe, Yokohama or Nagoya, you life might be comfortable. You are such a nice and friendly person who tries to understand our culture and way of living, even though you have had some unpleasant experiences. you are fed up of being asked something rude, for example, “Are you American?” They wouldn’t know it is rude.
Since the World War II ended, Japanese people have been strongly influenced by the USA. Probably “Gaijin” means “American” for them. I guess. Well, I have textbooks called “Modern English”. I got in the 1970′s, and the first dialog is written like this. “Excuse me. Are you American ?” “Yes, I am from New York”. When I heard your “grumble” last week, I remembered this dialog. In those days the characters in the text were only American and Japanese. I have a recent English textbook for junior high school students, and the characters are American, Australian, Indian, Chinese, Tanzanian and Japanese. Excellent, isn’t it?!
I cannot express well what I think, also my listening comprehension is still poor, but I enjoy learning English from you. It’s good to know the words we learned at school or from dictionaries but native speakers don’t use actually. Looking forward to you next lesson.
