[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

[musicfanmrc.livejournal.com]

>.< AWESOME! Both are very informative. Obviously trash where I live isn't that big a deal, partly because we'd have to go for a 40 minute drive to deliver recyclables to a facility to take them and pay to do so. So we just throw them in with the other trash. Which our trash guys who live at least 40 minutes away take away with them, just like we pay them to. I'm happy to participate in recycling if there's the possibility to do so.

As for the other article, I've had friends who lived in Japan before, and been told mostly similar stories. Not to mention, a discerning person can identify most of those things out of J-Dramas. To me it doesn't make the culture any less interesting.

[kate-firefly.livejournal.com]

where i live (california), we have 2 big trash bins, and 1 is for recyclables and the other, non-recyclables. each week, the garbage truck comes and dumps the trash into their truck and it gets taken away. that's it.

but we do save soda cans and plastic bottles to recycle and get some money for it, too. haha...

[musicfanmrc.livejournal.com]

We have to pay to recycle, we don't get paid for it. :-P So much for protecting the earth! Plus we live WAAAAAAY out in the country, so we don't get the same types of facilities and services that big cities do. We actually weren't even sure there would be trash pickup! When we lived in a city, we had recycling. And we did so whenever we could.

[kate-firefly.livejournal.com]

i see! i guess there are some disadvantages to living in rural areas, but the nice scenary and fresh clean air must be nice!

[musicfanmrc.livejournal.com]

Yes. I really enjoy the fresh are and the scenery. ^_^