❙ I didn’t understand female homosexuality
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What surprises me about today’s young people’s culture is that they get plastic surgery done and post about their expereince on social media and occasionally dye their hair gold, pink, red, etc., and see if it suits them, and more and more people are coming out as homosexuals, especially lesbians and bisexuals.
I’ve been told I’m relatively open-minded, which I aspire to be. But what I didn’t understand in my heart at the time was how different sexual orientations found attraction in a way that was beyond my understanding.
However, depending on the person, I think it’s incredible and I have learned that it cannot get in the way of their happiness.
❙Maurice who liked BL and me at the time
Actually, since I was a girl, I secretly read what is now called BL (Boys Love; homosexuals manga or work mainly only for girls and women readers) manga.
I went to watch “Maurice”, a movie about gay love that was popular at the time, featuring handsome young British men and bought the original book by E.M. Foster.
The foreign film “Morris 4K” official website
https://cinemakadokawa.jp/maurice/
However, as I will explain later, I couldn’t fully appreciate the film Maurice at the time, other than the visual beauty. Only recently did I understand.
❙ “A Better Tomorrow”
I loved John Woo’s Hong Kong noir action masterpiece “A Better Tomorrow (英雄本色)” back then, and I still like it now.
“Otokotachi no banka (Japanese title of A Better Tomorrow) 4K remaster version” notice『男たちの挽歌 ４Ｋリマスター版』予告
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgWBdd24RIE
When I could talk to a younger girl who seemed to understand this story,
“The friendship between the two main characters, played by Ti Lung and Chow Yun-Fat, in “A Better Tomorrow” is so beautiful and so deep it’s suspicious!”
I spoke passionately, and when I saw a comment that shared the same understanding as me in internet,
“As expected. Ufufu.”
It is also a human being who is grinning even at this age. However, honestly, I have never understood the love between women.
The reason is that, for me, the ultimate beauty is the kind of masculine beauty symbolized through things like martial arts.
I have an excessive admiration for it, and I don’t know how to feel sexual attraction to women’s figures, even my own.
❙ THE GUY SHE WAS INTERESTED IN WASN’T A GUY AT ALL
However, this work suddenly made me understand, even if only a little, the attraction some people have for women, even if I don’t personally share that attraction.
It is written by Sumiko Arai / 新井すみこ (KADOKAWA),『THE GUY SHE WAS INTERESTED IN WASN’T A GUY AT ALL１/気になってる人が男じゃなかった 1 』, and has been made into a book, and she has many followers amassing over 850,000 Twitter followers (from the book obi described later).
THE GUY SHE WAS INTERESTED IN WASN’T A GUY AT ALL
Reading the comments on Twitter, there are quite a few foreign readers.
Sumiko Arai Twitter
@agu_knzm
The drawings are very amazing.
“Even women can fall in love with each other.”
That’s what was depicted so realistically that even a person like me was persuaded.
The book’s inside cover carefully describes what makes the two main characters so attractive.
What I admire is always masculine beauty.
just,
“Don’t fall in love with that person, fall in love with this person instead”
People who can say something like this might have never truly experienced the feeling of falling in love.
❙ Impressions of seeing “Maurice” now
And recently, I watched the movie “Maurice” again.
It is set in England when homosexuality was criminalized. It portrays homosexual men who are attracted to each other but live contrasting lives.
Author E.M. Forster wrote this work in 1913, but it was published after his death in 1971.
(Reference “Morris” wikipedia)
Even if a person cares about someone or loves someone, the relationship is legally prohibited,
“If you keep going like this, you might end up ruining yourself.”
It is natural for human beings to be at least influenced and confused when they are made aware of such a fear.
Again, this work was published after the author’s death.
The actual conflicts and emotional movements of the characters, who lived in different eras, give rise to the irreplaceable value of this work and its deep emotions.
Perhaps I didn’t understand this work when I was a girl because I didn’t know true love and believed that with love, anything would be easy to overcome.
Still, I cried when I realized that love is sacred and rare, and humans shouldn’t tear it apart, no matter someone’s sexual identity or gender orientation.
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❙実は女性の同性愛は分からなかった
読者の皆さん、こんにちは。TOSHIです。日本人女性です。
私が、今の若い人の文化で驚いているのは、わりとかんたんに美容整形手術をして、SNSで公開することではなく、髪を金色やピンク、赤などに染め、それが似合っているということでもなく、同性愛、特にレスビアンや両性愛者であることをカミングアウトする人が増えてきた、ということなのです。
私は比較的、偏見の少ない人間だといわれていて、また、そうでありたいと思っています。けれど、内心分からなかったのは、女性が女性を愛することでした。
でも、人によっては、自分をつらぬき通していて凄いな、と思って、そういう人達の幸せの邪魔をしないようにしてきました。
❙BLは好きだった『モーリス』と当時の私
実は、少女時代から、今でいうBL（ボーイズ・ラブ）漫画もライトなものはこっそり読んでいました。
当時流行していた、ゲイの愛がテーマの映画、『モーリス』（原題 Maurice）を英国美青年めあてで観にいったり、E・M・フォスーターの原作本も買いました。
洋画「モーリス 4K」公式サイト
https://cinemakadokawa.jp/maurice/
ただ、後述しますけれど、映像美以外は、『モーリス』のよさは当時の私には分かりませんでした。理解できたのはつい最近のことです。
❙『男たちの挽歌』（A Better Tomorrow）
ジョン・ウー監督の、香港ノワール・アクションの傑作映画、『男たちの挽歌』（A Better Tomorrow）は当時から好きで、今も好きです。
『男たちの挽歌 ４Ｋリマスター版』予告
このネタを分かってくれそうな年下女子とお話ができると、
「『男たちの挽歌』で、ティ・ロン（Ti Lung）とチョウ・ユンファ(Chow Yun-Fat)が演じる主演の二人の友情は、美しくも深すぎてあやしいでしょう！」
と、熱弁してしまったり、私と同じ意見のネットの書きこみを観て、
「やっぱりィ。うふふ」
とこの年になってもニヤニヤしている人間でもあります。ただ、女性同士の愛はやっぱり、正直いってずっと理解できませんでした。
その理由は、自分にとっての、究極の美、美の権化というべき人達とは、格闘技や武術などでも象徴される種の、男性美がある人達だからです。
我ながら、それに過度なぐらいの憧れを持つ自分は、自身を含む、女性のふにゃっとした体にどう性的な魅力を感じればいいのか、分かりません。
また、本当のゲイの方々はBLや腐女子があんまり好きではない、という話をきいたことがあります。
とあるリアルなゲイの人のエッセイを読んだら、自分の性別が１グラムも必要とされていないばかりか、ボロクソに罵倒、否定されていました。それはまだいいのですけれど、主人公の大切な友人は、世間体のために女性とカモフラージュ婚をしています。
何の罪もない、けなげな、相手の女性の人生を踏みにじっていることを自慢げに話し、主人公とゲラゲラ笑う楽しげな２人。それは同性愛の人だからそうなのではなく、その人がそういう人なのでしょうけれど、ただ、他の、面白いと思えるところを読んでも、自分はきっとゲイの人を理解していないし、これからはそっちはBL以外は読むのをやめようと思ったのです。
❙『気になってる人が男じゃなかった1』
ところが、突然、女性同士の関係に対して、「そういう愛もあるんだ」と、少しでも理解させてくれたのがこの作品。
Twitterフォロワー85万超（後述の本の帯より）で書籍化された、『気になってる人が男じゃなかった1』新井すみこ著（KADOKAWA）です。
THE GUY SHE WAS INTERESTED IN WASN’T A GUY AT ALL
Twitterのコメントを読むと、外国人の読者も少なくないようです。
新井すみこ氏 Twitter
@agu_knzm
絵がすごく上手で、
「女性同士でも相手を好きになることがあるんだ」
ということが、実にリアルに描かれていて、私のような人間も説得されました。
本の中表紙には、主人公の2人の、どういうところが魅力的かという描写が丁寧にかかれていて、こういう視点もあるのだ、と感心しました。
私は今でも、この件の当事者ではありません。男性美に憧れます。
ただ、
「その人を好きになってはいけない、かわりにこの人を好きになればいい」
といえる人は、本当に人を好きになったことがないのかもしれません。そう思いました。
❙今、『モーリス』を観た感想
そして最近、映画『モーリス』を最近、もう一度観てみたのです。
同性愛が犯罪とされていた時代のイギリスの話で、お互いにひかれあいながらも対照的な人生を歩んでいく、同性愛の男性達を描きます。
作者のE・M・フォースターは1913年にこの作品を執筆しましたが、出版されたのは、死後の1971年でした。
（参考 「モーリス」wikipedia）
ある人が誰かを気になったり、本当に愛したとしても、その関係が法的にも禁じられていて、
「このまま進めば、自分が破滅するかもしれない」
いう恐怖を実際に思い知らされたら、少なくとも影響され、迷うのは、人間として当然のことなのです。
繰り返しますが、この作品が出版されたのは作者の死後でした。
違う時代に生きた、登場人物達のリアルな葛藤や心の動きから、かけがえのない、この作品の価値と、深い感動が生まれます。
少女時代に私がこの作品を理解できなかったのは、本当の愛を知らず、愛があればどんなことでも容易に乗り越えられる、と思い込んでいたからでしょうか。
それでも、愛情というものは、神聖で稀有なものであり、人間がそれを引き裂いてはいけない、ということに気がつかされて泣いた、今の私でした。
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❚Yukata is originally worn after bathing
Dear followers and readers, how are you? I’m TOSHI, a Japanese woman.
At the fireworks festival in Yokohama, I wore a Yukata (浴衣) for the first time in a while. It’s been a few years since I’ve been in the influence of covid.
Japanese people take a bath in the evening or at night every day. Yukata is originally worn after bathing, and can also be worn for step out.
❚Yukatas are still popular
Although, kimono is no longer a daily wear item, but yukata are still popular among young people too, especially women, as they are easier to wear than kimono during hot weather and enjoy traditional fashion.
Kimono and yukata are basically worn with strings and tools, but if you wear them properly without tightening your vital points, you will not feel uncomfortable.
On the contrary, maybe because it fits the body shape of Japanese people, wearing a yukata for the first time in a long time made me feel very relaxed.
After all, Japanese people look good in Japanese folk costumes.
The sight of people dressed in yukata and enjoying the festival with their friends and loved ones is a seasonal summer tradition in Japan.
❚25 years ago,Viva Japanese craftsmen
This footwear, Geta(下駄) was given to me by someone 25 years ago, and I wore it for the first time that day. However, I was able to walk for half a day without any problems.
When I walked, it sounded so good. I realized that the work of Japanese craftsmen is amazing.
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❚ I saw foreigners, wearing yukatas too
A combination of a purple yukata and a red belt, Obi(帯). Both are made in Kyoto.
I yearn for Kyoto-style, colorful Japanese items.
At the fireworks festival, I saw foreigners, mostly Caucasian girls, wearing yukatas and enjoying the festival.
Their yukata colors and hairstyles were completely different. They have different body shapes and look like cosplay, but they look good on them. Above all, they looked happy and cute.
Here is a YouTube video, a French man living in Tokyo went to firework festival. What he wear is a Yukata.
I think you can understand what does it like, firework festival in Japan and a Yukata.
Bebechan – 日本のフランス人
フランス人が日本の花火大会に魅了された！「花火師に敬意と感謝を伝えたい」🇫🇷🇯🇵
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_gK-82pctM
I hope you will try wearing a kimono or yukata someday.
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❚「素食（スゥシー）」って？肉なしの麻婆豆腐
皆さんこんにちは、TOSHIです。日本人女性です。
「素食（スゥシー）」って中国語を知っていますか?
日本語訳すると、※1「精進料理」で、ベジタリアン食のあつかいを受けることもあるようです。
『台湾素食』小道 迷子 ・ 渡辺 豊沢 著（双葉社）という漫画でその存在を知ったのですが、私はなかなか食べる機会がありませんでした。
ところが横浜中華街で、素食の麻婆豆腐を食べられる店を発見し、チャレンジすることに。
私は麻婆豆腐が好きで、自分でつくる時も、できるだけ手間をかけます。
しかし、麻婆豆腐をひき肉なしでつくったら、どうなってしまうのでしょうか。ルポします。
そこで来たのは、横浜中華街の広東料理のお店、「麻龍閣」。
素敵なお店なんですよー。飾ってある、色とりどりの食器や工芸品が私好み。
中国茶が温かいもの、冷たいものから選べるのも、夏だからよけいうれしいです。
スープをいただいたあと、さっそく素食の麻婆豆腐に挑戦。
見た目はほとんど同じです。
しかし、ひき肉なしの麻婆豆腐、どうやってしまうのでしょうか？
どうやって味をつけてあるのでしょうか。想像がつきません。ちょっとびくびくしながらも、口に入れます。
横浜中華街【3度驚く】達人のカンフー体験と薬膳セットが深すぎた! Kung Fu experience lesson in Chinatown
❚素食の「麻婆豆腐」どんな味⁉
……そうか、こんな味があったのか‼ 目からウロコです。
まず、ネギ、ニンニクなどの、炒めた香味野菜の香りが、きれいにたって、本当に素晴らしい‼
スパイシー、そしてたまらない、いい香り……これだけでもう、すっごく幸せです。
そして、多めのキノコ等のうまみで、予想できなかった味だけれど、おいしい‼ おいしい‼ おいしいです。
肉、動物性たんぱく質は、比較的容易にいい、うまみになってくれうるものですが、他の食材が主役で味をつけるのですから、素材や、料理人の腕がより深く問われる料理ではないでしょうか。
個人的な感想ですけれど、不思議ですが、どこか、和食を連想させる味でもありました。
食後は、きらきらと輝く美容によさそうなデザートを。
器にバリエーションがあってきれい。
お肌ツヤツヤの店員さんと少し話をして、すぐ近くのパワーストーン・中国茶などをあつかうお店「龍起」に
よって帰りました。
※1参考 【好吃（ハオチー）！中国料理】＜医食同源＞ 精進料理のイメージチェンジ in台北 ／ 辻調グループ
https://www.tsuji.ac.jp/column/cat658/in-3.html
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❚International and open-minded city, about 30 minutes from Shibuya
Dear followers and readers, how are you? I’m TOSHI, a Japanese woman.
It’s been three months since I rented an apartment in Yokohama(横浜). I have a thought about it.
Yokohama is a fashionable port town near Tokyo, and it takes about 30 minutes by train from Shibuya Station to Yokohama Station.
It is said that even some rich people choose to live in Yokohama instead of Tokyo.
Perhaps, this city has the advantage of being international and open-minded for Japan, as its reputation suggests. Perhaps, in terms of internationality, some people think it can be above Tokyo.
This town has a former foreign settlement and Japan’s largest Chinatown.
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Japanese, Chinese, and westerner live in my apartment.
Above all, people don’t interfere much with others. This is a major feature of the city, I heard.
There are a lot of tourists especially on weekends, but when I go to a foreign restaurant, including Chinese, and have a meal, I hear some people asking interfered questions about their nationality, background and roots, even though they seem to be meeting for the first time.
It seems that it’s people not from here, including Tokyo.
I’m still a stranger too, but when I entered a restaurant that seemed to be run by a foreigner in the neighborhood,
“Recently, I moved nearby for some reason.”
When I said that, they just say, “Oh, please come again soon.”
I am from country and at first it seemed quite distant for me, but now I follow their way and try not to ask to others easily.
Japan is very hot now. However, perhaps because it is a port town, Yokohama is relatively cool.
Sometimes I am homesick, and at the same time, I think it is one of its attractions.
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Beautiful stories from far away From Japan【The taste of tempura combined with Matsuzaka Beef】Anyway, try getting a Japanese friend!【Complete version】
“Obon” season/Return of ancestors【Beautiful stories from far away From Japan】
❚【The Tatami mats】How to create a Japanese corner easily
Dear followers and readers, how are you, ? I’m TOSHI, a Japanese woman.
I am very great today! Unexpectedly! Yesterday, I went to learn martial arts, had a light dinner (just natto 納豆・fermented soybeans, sweet potato, and salad), got a good night’s rest, and woke up at 5:30 AM. I decided to eat something delicious for today!
❚ Yokohama, a stylish and international port city in Japan
In fact, until recently, I was terribly homesick.
I had a misfortune happen back home and moved to Tokyo area. I came to a city which called Yokohama (横浜), a stylish and international port city in Japan. It also has a relatively rich history.
There is also the largest Chinatown in all of Japan, and it might be more international than even Tokyo, at least for Japan.
Some people chose this town to live even they are very rich, not Tokyo.
My hometown is a more conservative city, although it has many positive aspects. So when I thought about moving to the suburbs of Tokyo, I considered Yokohama due to its multiracial atmosphere.
It’s like living in an area with many foreigners and traveling or studying abroad! There are many language schools, so I’m going to be fluent in many languages!
❚ I became very homesick, but…
However, as everyone has had such an experience, I became very homesick after a while, and at one point I could not eat any of the foreign foods that I loved so much.
I couldn’t cook for myself, so I lost weight and had a lot of trouble. My parents’ house is far away, and the environment at my parents’ house has changed, so it doesn’t get better even if I go home.
But in some unexpected way, almost overnight, I felt amazingly better myself. What do you think it is from? I put tatami mats in my new apartment.
Usually, since the size of each tatami mat is fixed, it only fits perfectly if it is a traditional Japanese-style room.
❚【The Tatami mats】How to create a Japanese corner easily
However, I learned that there are convenient and stylish tatami mats that are cut into small squares and can be combined freely to create a Japanese corner easily, even in a Western-style room.
I like the convenience of my own apartment, but when I forced myself to sleep in my current room, which had nothing, not even any carpet, I felt like I was sleeping on the street, and I couldn’t get rid of my fatigue.
However, I was surprisingly revitalized when I created a Japanese corner with a tatami mat, placed a lamp with gentle light at my feet, and slept on a futon.
The smell of new tatami mats! Tatami mats are made of rush and etc. are said rush purify the air.
There is also an unscrupulous old saying that “the newer the wife and the tatami, the better.”
The wind from the air conditioner hits the tatami mats, and my room smells good.
The scent is a little different from forests.
Is it a refreshing grassy scent, that is a little bit like the perfume “Vent Vert”, green wind.
I can’t believe this makes me so happy and at peace. Also, could it have been a kind of aromatherapy? Overnight I remarkably recovered, and when I woke up and looked outside, I realized I was in such a diverse and wonderful place.
Then I went a famous and expensive Chinese restaurant, but I could ate quite delicious nutrient-rich Chinese style ramen and it was a best price, only for 850 yen, because it was lunch.
Do you know that? Remember!! In Japan, even high-end restaurants often serve lunch at abargain price completely different from dinner due to factors like attracting customers.
After that, I had some Taiwanese sweet tapioca milk tea at different friendly cafe. I was happy.
You may think this might be the case, but it is difficult for people themselves to understand why they are happy, why they are hurt, and why they are recovering.
Humans are complicated beings, and both danger and charm are found in the human.
Do you have close friends who are Japanese, foreigners, or people from other countries?
Even if you don’t, or even if you have a variety of positions and opinions, and even if you are a strong person or not, I would like you to understand that living in a foreign country and a different environment is challenging.
People shouldn’t be pressured to go against their own will, and if there is a place where people can exchange their opinions and recharge themselves, it will help protect human rights and increase the world’s productivity.
【The charm of tatami mats】Beautiful stories from far away From Japan
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“Obon” season/Return of ancestors【Beautiful stories from far away From Japan】
❚ My new life [30 minutes from Shibuya]
Dear followers and readers, how are you? I’m TOSHI, a Japanese woman.
Actually, I started a new life. For the time being, I rented an apartment near Tokyo to try out.
It’s about 30 minutes from Shibuya, beautiful seaside town.
When I left home, I had only two luggages.
For now I’ll be back and forth for a while, and there’s a possibility that I’ll go back to my family house.
❚Futons and teflon wok-shaped frying pan are perfect for a minimalist life
First of all, Japanese futons (futons are perfect for a minimalist life!), curtains, and a Teflon Chinese wok-shaped frying pan. These three are pretty much all I have for now living here.
I’ll have to buy this today, take a taxi to my apartment (I don’t have the courage or strength to put a futon on the train)…and I won’t have to pay for a hotel anymore. I can also cook for myself. It’s been tough until now!
❚“One-pan cuisine” and a Japanese Michelin-starred chef (With YouTube review, English subtitle)
The new apartment only has one stovetop burner. I haven’t bought a refrigerator yet, and I’m going to figure out how to “one-pan” cook for a while.
“One-pan cuisine (ワンパン料理)” means “cooking that can be done with a single frying pan,” it is so prevalent in Japan that even a Michelin-starred chef publishes recipes for one-pan cuisine on YouTube.
⇓Video of “One-pan cuisine” of cacio e pepe by Shusaku Toba (鳥羽周作), a Japanese Michelin-starred chef (Japanese)
【永久保存版】一つ星シェフが教える包丁いらずフライパン1つでできるチーズと黒胡椒のパスタ “カチョエペペ”【#シェフのワンパンパスタ】
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0RDeNnjJ4Q
⇓Review video of his restaurant with Japanese and American reporters (English and Japanese subtitles)
【ミシュランレストラン】sio(シオ )の朝定食をアメリカ人に食べさせてみた Went to a Michelin star Tokyo restaurant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV8NpRZMGn4
Anyway, a regular frying pan has a shallow bottom and cannot boil noodles. But if you use a wok-shaped Teflon frying pan, it won’t burn the food, and you can cook Japanese, Chinese, Western food, and almost anything with it, somehow, for you at your appartment, I think.
I like TV, but I can’t stream on my computer until I get a working internet connection established.
❚Two buses a day, but for better or worse, life can be unpredictable
I left home because when I’m at home, I remember the sad events (the death of my family member), and it never got any better. Being here makes me forget that.
I came here crying because it was painful and scary to leave my hometown. I still can’t believe I’m in a place I’m not familiar with. I felt anxious and wandered into the unknown.
However, after making new friends and acquaintances, I realized there are many fun things to do around Tokyo.
For example, I attended a lecture by a columnist I had followed for a long time. It was an exciting and valuable experience. During the Q&A, I could talk with her a little and even get her autograph.
Where I used to live, there were only two buses a day, but for better or worse, life can be unpredictable.
My new friends comforted my worries by explaining that “time will tell” and things should become more familiar to me.
Although I’m reluctant, I will leave behind my past life, try to challenge myself with various new things and find fun things to do with my new life here in nearby Tokyo, anyway, at least for a while.
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【Pioneer of “mixed-Japanese descent” research】Beautiful stories from far away From Japan
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“Obon” season/Return of ancestors【Beautiful stories from far away From Japan】
❚ Japanese style bath, purity and Japanese spirit
Dear followers and readers, how are you? I’m TOSHI, a Japanese woman.
I’m still not used to it, but I’m starting to enjoy life here in Tokyo metropolitan area.
I like my current apartment. It’s a small room, but it’s conveniently located!
The only disappointing thing is that the bath along with the toilet and sink are in the same room. It’s both a shower and bathtub.
Japanese baths, like at home, hot springs and public baths, have a separate washing area in addition to their bathing area.
This is a bigger difference than you might think!
Usually, in Japanese baths, before soaking in the bathtub, you use the “Kakeyu(かけ湯)” in the washing area.
It’s a pail to scoop up hot water from the bathtub and pour it over your body several times before enter the bath.
The hot water in the bathtub is often shared with other people, so it’s a pre-washing so that you don’t bring your own dirt into the bathtub.
And when you relax in the bathtub, the dirt in your pores will be easier to remove, so go up to the washing area and wash your hair and body carefully.
And if you rinse well and then soak in the bathtub, even if you might have missed a spot, it can still be washed off.
In foreign countries, there are cases where the soap sud is not completely washed away with hot water or cold water, right?
It may be due to differences in water quality, climate, and even the culture itself, but I’m not used to it, and it’s sometimes a culture shock to see someone from Western countries not completly wash away the soap suds.
❚ Pleasure of purity
Now that you have cleaned your body, you should wear fresh undergarments and comfortable clothes and, if possible, everything you wear over them but be clean as well;
you can drink cold tea or a beer in your cleaned room, and you will feel a strange sense of happiness.
Many hotels provide new disposable slippers made of paper or cloth, just in case.
Shintoism, a prominent Japanese religion, believes in purity, maybe there is a correlation involved there too.
Missionaries who came to Japan from Europe during the Sengoku period praised the cleanliness of Japan.
❚ The actors are prohibited from bathing only in the shower⁉
It is said that the actors of a large Japanese theatrical company are prohibited from bathing only in the shower, as opossed to bathing.
My admiration for a private hot spring【Beautiful stories from far away From Japan】
https://clubrosy.jp/long/1352.html
❚ Various bath additive, not only aroma bath salts
Various bath additive, not only aroma bath salts, like spa powder,Onsen spa powder, bath salts are popular in Japan. There are but also 100 yen and several hundred yen single-use packs of bath bombs and various other bathing products.
Even those who have successfully immigrated to other countries from Japan miss Japanese baths.
I also found a public bath nearby, so I plan to go there.
A good bath is at the heart of the Japanese culture.
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❙“half Japanese” are called “half ” in Japan
In Japan, people who are “half Japanese” are called “half (ハーフ) “ for short. Calling one human “half” is not an accurate depiction. For better or for worse, they are treated differently, sometimes given preferential treatment, and at the same time often have faced complex problems and difficulties.
And if there is a “‘half’ research study,” the author of this book, Sandra Haefelin, who represents this community (she is a Japanese-German mix from Munich), might be a pioneer and leading person, and now she is an advocate for this community to speak out about this.
“What is the Japanese [half] problem?”Beautiful stories from far away From Japan
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“Unconscious prejudice” against “half” sometimes comes through words of well-intended praise too.
This must-read book should be included in mandatory education in Japan.
This is the title of the book.『ほんとうの多様性についての話をしよう』サンドラ・ヘフェリン著（句報社） (Hontou no tayousei ni tsuiteno hanashi wo shiyou)
Let’s Talk About Real Diversity
Japan has many great and amazing things about it, but if you were to say that diversity, specifically racial issues, is a strength of Japan, the answer is, unfortunately, no.
For example, even though it’s better than before, the understanding of LGBTQ+ issues in Japan is still shallow.
Regarding gender discrimination, Japan ranked 116th in the world in the Gender Gap index and was the lowest among G7, and this year it fell even further to 125rd. There is room for improvement.
If you understand Japanese, especially while researching, I’d highly recommend it.
This topic has rarely been discussed before, so it is a must-read book for a deeper understanding of Japan.
By the way, on June 22rd, she had an interview in Tokyo with Ms. Yoshida Ushio, the author of 『ふがいないきょうだいに困ってる』吉田潮著（光文社)（Fugainai Kyoudai ni komatteru). They had a impactful discussion concerning Japan’s patriarchal and the problem about brothers and sisters, etc.
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It’s already hot. Summer fun, shaved ice(かき氷).
「Shaved ice is a large family of ice-based desserts made of fine shavings of ice or finely crushed ice and sweet condiments or syrups.」
I was told it tasted like granita.
It’s cold, thirst-quenching and delicious!!
For me, it also brings back memories of summer vacations and festivals.
My favorite is the combination of strawberry syrup and condensed milk.
You can try shaved ice if you visit Japan!!
Japanese food【Reasons why I recommend Tempura】Beautiful stories from far away From Japan
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