[random] 5 things nobody tells you about living in japan.

[kate-firefly.livejournal.com]

since there's nothing much going on, i thought i'd post this up. i know about some of these stuff already, from reading jamie's blog, but some of these really surprised me! O_O it's informative, but a fun read too... (i guess some things could be exagerrated. don't take it too seriously.) also, i thought i'd share jamie's post about their kind of strange trash rules. 

http://www.cracked.com/article_20118_5-things-nobody-tells-you-about-living-in-japan.html 

http://www.jamieism.com/896/japan/trash-day-in-japan

Comments

[kate-firefly.livejournal.com]

wow! i was wondering if someone who lives in japan might comment! i'm glad you did! ~_~

that's right, i thought of this too, when i was reading it. they even don't like biracial japanese, or japanese ppl that come back from brazil, so of course they won't accept foreigners... i remember learning about it in an asian studies class. something about how they even try to figure out the percentage of japanese blood you have to see if a girl can compete in the miss japan pageant or something like that. sad. =(

yes! i heard about how if you lose something, chances are, when you come back, it will still be there. that's amazing...

i heard about that too... that's really troublesome! where i live, if we're throwing away something big, we can either give it to the salvation army and they come and get it, or call the trash collectors and they will pick it up free, a few times a month. unless it's something that has to go to the hazardous waste place, then we have to take it there ourselves, but it's free to leave it there.

yeah, every country has its good and bad points. i am just used to living in the united states, but i'm sure a lot of people would rather not live here for many reasons. hahaha...