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The Three Japanese Cultures

Posted on June 12, 2022 by bakatsundoku

Hi!  It’s been a while since I posted here, so I have a lot to say.  Truth be told, I don’t really think I’m fond of the blogging method of expressing myself, but I haven’t come up with anything better yet.  I’m working on it, though!  First, an update. The

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Japanese, Personal, Pop Culture, Social Justice Anime, cosplay, cultural appropriation, culture, japanese, kawaii, otaku Leave a comment

Alien (Gaijin)

Posted on January 2, 2022 by bakatsundoku

There have been, and are, several reasons for this site.  But I think ultimately the reason I created and still write in this site is to help me work out stuff by writing, and I just so happen to do it publicly sometimes.  I need to do that now.  So,

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Personal acceptance, alien, Anime, gaijin, idols, otaku, waifu, weeaboo Leave a comment

Otaku Introspection

Posted on September 13, 2021 by bakatsundoku

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking, lately.  Big news, right?  I mean, I never do that!  Usually I just careen…  ah well.  Sarcasm is lost in this medium. Anyway, I’ve been thinking.  I sure do care far too much about how I’m perceived in some ways, don’t I?  And

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Am I Otaku?

Posted on September 8, 2021 by bakatsundoku

Am I Otaku or even weeaboo? This is a question I’m asking myself more and more lately.  I mean, I guess I fit some of the definitions.  I like JPop – enough so that I’m maintaining an entire website about it, and other pop culture things.  I’m familiar enough with

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Announcing Texihabara…

Posted on August 15, 2021 by bakatsundoku

After my post yesterday, I decided to do something different that wasn’t related to blogging or angst. I got the “not related to blogging” part done. I ate some food, played on my phone and the computer, and just basically had about as restful a day as I’m capable of.

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Japanese Culture: The Seduction of Exoticism

Posted on June 6, 2021 by bakatsundoku

Over the past few years, My thoughts on Japanese culture have taken a very definite arc. I started out with a general sense of admiration, but then decided that I wanted to learn more about their language and culture. I immersed myself into learning as much as I could about

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Uncategorized culture, escapism, Japan, otaku, weeaboo Leave a comment

Normalcy

Posted on December 20, 2020 by bakatsundoku

In the cult I grew up in, throughout my childhood, there were some very strict expectations about how one was to behave. One was always to behave in an “upright” manner – to be honest, the ideas of tatemae and honne are not really all that foreign to me, as

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Tips and Tricks for Japanese Learners

Posted on December 15, 2020 by bakatsundoku

Over the past ouple of years, I’ve learned a few things about Japanese that are not obvious to people just starting out in Japanese. Let me try to summarize them here. Maybe I’ve said some of these before, but I’ll just repeat here if so, I guess it bears repeating.

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Uncategorized japanese, japanglish, jyukugo, otaku, rendaku, tips and tricks 1 Comment

Sometimes I’m Wrong

Posted on December 14, 2020 by bakatsundoku

I like to say that I’m never really wrong – as my decisions and opinions are nearly always right based upon the information I have. But sometimes I don’t have enough information, so as I get more information, my opinions can change. That kind of makes my previous ones wrong.

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Idols

Posted on June 25, 2020 by bakatsundoku

My first real introduction to Japan and Japanese was through idol culture.  Morning Musume, to be precise.  So it’s no surprise that I’m unusually knowledgeable about the subject.  I can name quite a few idols from Morning Musume, AKB48, Sakura Gakuin, and a few others besides.  And those that I

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Uncategorized AKB48, celebrity, idol, idol culture, Japan, Morning Musume, otaku Leave a comment
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