Thread: Back in Asia: Isolated in Japan.

Looks like very nice food, you were before my time but welcome back and all the best in Japan. Random seafood nights would be welcome here in Mongolia.

Small, independent restaurants where the host is the life and soul of the party seem to abound in Japan.

Something sadly lost in many parts of the world.

Originally Posted by cyrille

Well I was a bit cynical about a world cup followed by the ashes but it was a brilliant summer in the end.

Gone a bit quiet on that thread now though.

Steve Smith was the only difference in the sides... I thought the sandpaper scandal would have taken away his confidence and Warner would come back uneffected .... turned out to be the opposite...

Originally Posted by katie23

@wally - do they have hiking groups there? Or maybe in FB? There may be organizers looking for "joiners" in hiking activities or tours. It's a good place to meet people - just socialise and you get to explore new places too. Last year, I found some hiking groups on FB. I was a solo joiner for one hike, and have found a "gang" - regular friends that I hike with. We even have a Christmas party /get-together scheduled!

Cheers and I hope you find/make friends there and adjust to your situation.

Look up Mandaloopy's thread, as well as NZDick's thread about prices of goods in Japan. That was interesting too.

I`m having problems finding anything local like that. I speak Japanese but my writing/reading is poor. A Japanese teacher helped me find a Karate doujo, but they still have not gotten back to me with my request to join ...... but there certainly are lots of mountains to climb .... nothing much besides mountains, tbh.

Originally Posted by Dillinger

How far are you from Fukuoka? U should hook up with the Dickster, that should cover over any previous trauma

I`m not so far as the crow flys, but there is a large mass of water seperating us. I am on the Island of Shikoku, which is the island next to Fukuoka. The nearest bigger city is Kochi, but that is 2 and a half hours by train..

Welcome home.

Try a Japanese food thread, those dishes you posted look enjoyable. What are they called and what are the ingredients?

Originally Posted by cyrille

Small, independent restaurants where the host is the life and soul of the party seem to abound in Japan.

Something sadly lost in many parts of the world.

Totally agree, and yes, such places are a large part of what makes Japan appealing.

Something I noticed when I was back in Australia is how drab the atmosphere is in most pubs these days. The local publican who made it his job to create atmosphere is a thing of the past as Coles and Woolworths have snapped up most pubs in Oz. That, along with poker machines replacing live bands as a means to attract punters has meant the pubs once a vibrant part of Australian culture of beer and live music have become depressing and boring places. Oh, and they stopped topless barmaid nights too .......

In the old days, foreigners were often not allowed to join karate dojos. Have you done martial arts before ? And as you are on Shikoku, what style do they practice ? Okinawan ? Uechi Ryu ?

Originally Posted by OhOh

Welcome home.

Try a Japanese food thread, those dishes you posted look enjoyable. What are they called and what are the ingredients?

This region is known for it`s seafood - a large part of the Japanese diet - which really suits me, as I could eat fish or seafood everyday.

Most of the dishes posted are of seafood, either raw or fried. There are also baked scollaps - and a dish that is raw beef, though slightly cooked with an open flame before it is sliced.

The beef dish is called gyu niku to tataki , there was also sushi, sashimi and ebi-fry (fried prawns)

Do you cook Japanese food for yourself?

Originally Posted by Latindancer

In the old days, foreigners were often not allowed to join karate dojos. Have you done martial arts before ? And as you are on Shikoku, what style do they practice ? Okinawan ? Uechi Ryu ?

I don`t think they let foreigners join so easily - it`s common knowledge that you kind of need to be invited ...... I am hoping one of the Japanese teachers will help me make that happen ... I have no idea what kind of karate they practice as I have never done it before. I belonged to a boxing gym in Tokyo that was really great for fitness...... I need to do something to combat the fact that my job means that I sit at my desk most of the day..

Originally Posted by OhOh

Do you cook Japanese food for yourself?

You can literally buy a meal for the same price as you would pay to buy the ingredients for at a supermarket. You can get a set meal of grilled fish, salad, miso soup, pickles and rice for about 150TB - perhaps less..

You would only ever bother cooking if you wanted to cook a western dish that you cannot buy so easily..

Originally Posted by Mandaloopy

Looks like very nice food, you were before my time but welcome back and all the best in Japan. Random seafood nights would be welcome here in Mongolia.

Thanks for the welcome!

What kind of dishes are popular in Mongolia? Can`t say I have ever tried it..

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

Essentially, one's personality is formed in the crucible of infant development shaped in the first three years of life but then conditioned by subsequent experiences through adolescence until adulthood during which time we adopt mechanisms to adapt our personalities to fit within society.

Unfortunately, many do not mature into adults but simply get older once they arrest their development in their later teens.

Dodgy learning, distorting complexes, ignorance, stupidity, vanity, conceit and fear mould what is in truth no more than a mindset of delusional thinking out of which lives are further skewed by bigotry and prejudice.

This is is why the human condition languishes in the depths of moral decay anchored by the reality most will do anything to survive, and in order to acquire more than another.

That is why we have Wales and Brexit.



Remember, nothing matters very much and very little matters at all.

Life is a futile gift with no purpose other than procreation.

As far as accidents go, it's pretty much all we have so enjoy your chaos and stop wasting time on footling introspection which is as worthless as examining your own faeces.

I spend increasing amounts of time now in studying cosmology, quantum physics and pondering the phenomenology of our universe reconciling th notion of infinity.

I am now beginning to realise that there may well be no other human lifeforms in the entire universe and we are truly alone in the happenstance of particle physics but even if we were not we would never, ever know otherwise.

Having said that we all need to be somewhere, doing something but I do find it a bit odd anyone would wish to live among the Japanese in their society, a people who are probably the most fucked up, weirdest psycho freaks to have ever left a cave.

Surely even Australia is better than that?

Well, thanks for the reply - I think...... sorry, still getting my head around your points..

It is true that up to the age of 3 can have a big impact on your personality - but your brain is still developing up until the age of 21, so my shrink explained to me.

My mother was extrememly abusive to me, and as my father never showed me the time of day, I never had any kind of care-giver, which apparently means my brain did not develop properly.

EMDR therapy was effective in helping me `re-wire` my brain, and I have finally been sleeping after suffering insomnia for my entire life. I`m also obsessing about the past a lot less.... practicing mindfulness and self love, etc, helps..

I have been told that I am going through a grieving process as I learn to accept the things in life I unknowingly lost, due to living in trauma - largely dissocaited from reality. It`s all about acceptance...

Not sure where your opinion for the Japanese people comes from. Perhaps it is a judgement you have made from the Japanese you have met outside of Japan. It would be like judging Indians on the Indians you meet outside of India, who anybody who has travelled India will tell you are not a good reflection of the people of that country.

I have spent almost 2 decades in Japan and find the people kind, inteligent and sophisticated. Speaking Japanese helps. I became jaded a few times when I was younger and could not communicate so well, but now my experience with the natives is largely positive..

Well, the Japanese do have some quite entertaining game shows.....and some really quite bizarre ones.

Not sure which category this one falls into :

Japanese Show Has Women Jerking Off Men While They (attempt to) Sing Karaoke

https://www.popdust.com/japanese-sho...891254801.html

^ gello CSFFan - thank for the welcome. Here is his Facebook page
https://m.facebook.com/pages/categor...7731018935582/

I think the main problem I have with the Japanese stems from their barbarity.

The Nazis killed millions more on an industrial scale but it was a slaughter conducted in accordance with a logic that laid the foundation to their political ethos which was to perpetrate a genocide in order to free up 'lebensraum' for the racially superior Aryan race over the next thousand years. Perverted, obscene and ultimately insane but it was nevertheless a policy rooted in a doctrine, unspeakable though it was.

The Japanese slaughter of millions in China and in SE Asia was no more than a frenzy of barbarity inflicted out of pleasure.

All that obeisance to higher authority and veneer of supplication and politeness is just a face they present, underneath they are weird savage fuckers when they don't get their way.

just a face they present, underneath they are weird savage fuckers when they don't get their way.

but at least their women dont shave their bushes off.

Originally Posted by Wally Dorian Raffles

but if you go back far enough , all of our cultures have a dark side. I personally don’t think it’s fair to blame the current generation for the deeds of their ancestors..

It's disingenuous to do so, absolutely.

Nice to see you back, Wally . . .

At least living in the countryside might give you some grounding without too many distractions, time and space to rebuild.

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

I think the main problem I have with the Japanese stems from their barbarity.

The Nazis killed millions more on an industrial scale but it was a slaughter conducted in accordance with a logic that laid the foundation to their political ethos which was to perpetrate a genocide in order to free up 'lebensraum' for the racially superior Aryan race over the next thousand years. Perverted, obscene and ultimately insane but it was nevertheless a policy rooted in a doctrine, unspeakable though it was.

The Japanese slaughter of millions in China and in SE Asia was no more than a frenzy of barbarity inflicted out of pleasure.

All that obeisance to higher authority and veneer of supplication and politeness is just a face they present, underneath they are weird savage fuckers when they don't get their way.

Being Australian and having been born only a decade after WW2, I heard a lot of awful stories about the Japanese military.

However the Waffen SS and other groups did unspeakable things to Ukrainians, Gypsies, Jews and homosexuals....perhaps not bayoneting them as brutally as the Japs did to babies in Nanking, but close.....