I have been staying in Tokyo for 5 and a half years. And I have learned a lot from the locals and us culture. I first came to Japan in end of March 2015. The fresh breeze of Spring touched my face gently as if it is welcoming me to this land of rising sun. The sun was hiding behind the clouds shyly as it only showed part of itself. It was slight windy and cloudy yet the sky is bright enough. I wanted to come to Japan just to seek for a better future, not saying that I dislike my country, it is just that I don't see where my future is going if I choose to stay at a place where systematic racism is applied. Living in Japan has taught me numbers of lessons in the past 5 years here. First, do not do things halfhearted, finish where you began. Never give up easily. I am a person who do things and give up halfway, which is not good. I rarely completed a complicated task successfully as I refuse to think the ways to finish it completely. I watch how my Japanese friends solv...
Japan is an advanced, international well-knowned country in the world. But there are few things that you might not know about Japan. The language. Ahh, yes. Japanese. The language actually comes from Old Chinese and Old Japanese. They have lots of words that took the pronunciation and translate of Katakana directly. Therefore, most of the people there has lousy pronunciation of English. So bad that you could might only catch a word or two. It's a little rare to see the locals speak fluent English. Ofc, I am not counting those who had stay outside the shima-guni(島国,"isolated" country, Japan is an island itself). So, be patient if you meet someone who doesn't speaks good English. And this will bring me to the next point. Asking for directions is hard. Might as well just Google Maps or something. That way is much efficient. Lacking the ability to speak English makes them hard to express themselves. Some of them will look at Google Maps for entire day and tell you...
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