WW2 's history

I think japanese people would need some lessons about history. I'm aware that they don't realise what really happened in Europe, resistance, concentration camps, or this kinda stuff. For them World War 2 was more the war between Japan and USA. So they know Hitler wasn't a nice guy, but it seems they don't really understand that it was a genocide.

Japanese people like cosplay. It's more manga or anime fan than normal japanese people, but cosplay is kinda common thing in japan. For example in some game centers, you can borrow some cosplay for taking pictures in purikura (printer club, you can take pictures with lot of friends and funny backgrounds, for more details try wikipedia as usual). It's also part of the japanese sex culture ( I'm not sure i should say culture but well ....), different kind of style would be exciting for the man : schoolgirl, office-lady, nurse, etc ... During cosplay conventions, there's different kind of cosplay, from anime, manga, video games, movies, even literature, or sometimes real people. It's not surprising to see some military cosplay, and it happens that some are dressing as Nazi Officers. I don't really agree with that, but at leat i can understand (a little) that some people do that. That's still just (bad taste) cosplay !

But what i saw last time just shocked me !!! It was In Tokyo during my winter hollidays. I was with a friend at the Ikebukuro station, wich is quite big and crowded, when we saw a group of maybe 6 or 7 people. They looked normal, in their 30's I guess, and seemed to be enjoying themselves naturally. No cosplay or this kinda stuff. But one of the girl, looked like the photograph of the group, was wearing a green jacket with a Nazi cross on the arm ! I was really stunned ! I'm sure it wasn' a cosplay, or she weared that for fun, it was just her normal clothes. And i don't think either that she admired Nazi or Hitler, just she might have thought it looks cool, and that's funny to wear that.

I know from my japanese friends and my experiences, that they don't really know that millions of Jews and other people died from emprisonnemet and torture in Europe, but even knowing that, i just think it's too much.

So 2 questions came to my mind : What does japanese children learn about Hitler and Nazism in school, and what's their vision of that ? How come there's probably some normal shops in Japan selling this kinda merchandise ?

It's a sad world V_V

Lord of the Bugs

I found this text in a manga called "VF", by Fumihiro Hayashizaki, and i really liked. I don't think he wrote it himself, but there's no other name, maybe it' s famous, and i just don't know it because of my lack of culture. Kinda looks like a Poem

Lord of the bugs :

Don't care if i couldn't shoot it
But i'd die with spitting out whatever I want
Than live without pouring out my heart
That's my way of life on the Street
You're not my master, you dirty big one
I'm not your tool I'm not your toy
Looking down from the top of the city
The people are only bugs
Those who come dinner on their special jets
Those who live in cardboard city in the park
You're not my master, you dirty big one
i'm not your tool, I'm not your toy
Everybody's the same
You don't need to be scared
Tell your heart with your own words
We are all bugs looked down from the above
You're not my master, you dirty big one
I'm not your tool, I'm not your toy

I'm sorry the following message is in japanese...
Actually there's no relation with the blog, it's just my report i have to do for tuesday, and since i wrote it in japanese, and that (of course (-_-;) ) i didn't memorize the reading of the kanji, i need to use rikai. For those who don't know it it's kind of dictionnary, if you enter an url of japanese page, it will give you the reading and meaning of all words in english. Very useful : http://www.rikai.com/perl/Home.pl
So i needed to entered the text here, so i can get it on a webpage. The thema is "cluste bombs", not so interesting, but that's the less boring tpoic i found. Hope it will be good enough, because in this class there's only korean and chinese students, wich are so strong in japanese, actually some of my korean friends (maybe all of them) are fluent in japanese, and even one in kansai slang.
Have a nice sunday !



きーワード：
クラスター爆弾：この爆弾は、通常の空対地爆弾とほぼ同サイズのケースの中に、数個から数百個の子弾（爆弾や地雷）を搭載し、母機から投下後に空中でケースが分裂することにより子弾を散布して広範囲にわたってダメージを与える。主に人的被害やあまり強固ではない施設・兵器への広範囲の被害を狙うものである。


問題：終戦後にクラスター爆弾の小型爆弾はまだ爆発しません。その「第２の地雷」の被害者は子供や農民や下流階級です。対人地雷の問題みたいです。それからノルウェーは全面禁止の条約を示す。今日本は何の連座するで考えています。


支持：ノルウェー、ドイツ、スウェーデン、ニュージーランド…

－被害者は軍人じゃないです。
－その兵器は必要じゃないです。
－終戦後の長い間クラスター爆弾のせいで災害があります。
－ＯＮＧは第２の地雷」の被害者の世話をしってから、お金と時間を使い過ぎます。


反対：アメリカ、ロシア

－クラスター爆弾産出国。
－地雷の除去は高いです。
－軍隊の力を発揮したいです。


私の意見：　もちろんそれは大切ですが、クラスター爆弾の全面禁止後で新しい兵器を発明すると思います。対人地雷の問題はまだ解けない（たとえばベトナムでもういっぱいあります）、でも他の問題を取り扱いたいです。法案を採決して、皆を助けると思って、大きい討論をして、でも事実は現地であんまり何もしてないです。

DJ Ozma's live

Last friday i went to DJ Ozma's live in Osaka. About DJ Ozma, it's a band formed with the leader/singer of Kishidan, the mascott of the same band, and one of the dancers. As kishidan it's stupid, hilarious and great ! If you want more informations, search "Kishidan" in wikipedia, there's some good explanations.

Since it was all standing i decided to go few hours before to be in front of the scene. So i arrived at the live's place, Zepp Osaka (a small dome), around 12'. There were nobody, and it was really cold so i decided to walk around in a near shopping center. One hour later i went back to the Zepp, but there were only 3 girls. I talked to them, and they were waiting for Ozma, but they asked me why i cam here so early (at that moment we were 6hours to the concert). So i explained to them i wanted to enter the 1st, but they told me that there were numbers on the ticket and that we were entering by numerical order ...... I was 723 !

Actually they were waiting for the opening of goodies shop, so i decided to wait with them. We wited something like 3 hours, and i thought i would lose my hands since it was so cold. After 3 hours, i was satisfied by being the 4th guy accessing to the goodies : i bought a T-shirt.

After this i decided to go back to the shopping center to warm up a little and then to come back before the opening of the gates (at 6 o'clock). In the shopping center i actually falled asleep sitting on some stairs since i was tired and it was warm. When i went back i realized people all got the same ide as me, since i saw many people with some Ozma goodies in that shopping center.

Back there, 2000 people were waiting, they started calling people by group of 400, then divided us in group of 200, and in front of the door, we went 20 by 20. When i entered i grabed a drink (that i paid 500yen V_V)and hurried in the main room. There were still some free space in the right side in front of the scene. I was maybe at 2m of the scene so that was really nice i thought, even if it was not really in the center.

The light turned off and then a clown appeared, he did some stupid things, then it started. The first 3 songs were some famous one, so everybody jumped, danced, singed, and moved all around. Wich moved me to the center and a bit closer to the scene^^. I was kind of lucky and stayed here till the end. It was really incredible : it lasted 3 hours, wich is normal since Kishidan's live are always more than 3h30. Half of it was the songs, and the other half some jokes, stupid acts, or some wierd dancing. They really set the all audience in fire. I really laughed a lot, and nearly understand everything. Since it's stupid it's easy to get the meaning.

Many hours later i was still stunned by this concert, it's really something i could never forget. All those japanese people were so different than usual it was like crazy. Ozma was so charismatic, and i spent such a good time. Really unforgettable !!!

After the live i falled in the trap of the small shop keepers, and bought a poster and a towel. And i singed all the way back to home, wishing i'll have the chance to go to another of their live show soon. For the anecdote the title of this blog comes from the first hit of DJ Ozma : Age Age Every Night (Kishi) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A277Pdo7cLw

Visual Kei, live

I went to a live show yesterday, actually it was a visual kei event.
For more informations about this kind of music just look here : [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_kei]Visual kei[/url]

It was in obe, started at 4:30, and finished only at 9:30, so it was a bit long. There were 7 bands, all amateurs, but in Japan even the smallest band produce his own cd to sell after concert. It was really interesting , even if i felt abit uneasy. Of course we were only 2 foreigners in there, and it surprised everybody. I felt even more uneasy since i was one of the only male ...
I thought there would be lot of boys and girls, all wearing some punk and gothic clothes. Well, i was totally wrong. There were only girls, we were maybe 3 men, and they were totally normal, i would even say cute and sexy for many of them, and probably half of hem were high school girls.
The other thaing hat surprised me is the comportement of japanese fans (or should i say spectator for those people). I know japanese people are cold, but i thought they would be different during a concert. As i said there were 7 bands, but nearly everybody come for the band he supports. So lot of people leave after their band is done, and when they waiting, and that an other band is performing those girls just sit down in the floor, laugh together, smoke, send mails through their cellphones... So you can guess how popular a band is by seeing how many girls stand up for them.
There were one band wich came from Tokyo, and it was the only wich made everybody stand up. But i must say they were really good !!

About the bands, the first one was not so bad, but they got an ugly singer, wich did lots of mistakes (he nearly fell down, lost his mic ...), and spent more time taking care of his hat than singing.
The second, was the one i came for , La'Skull. They began recently, but were pretty good.
3rd group, were missing some of his members, so they were only 2, a brother and a sister. That's pity everybody wasn't here because i really like what they did. And they played some funny characters.
4th group was one of the best, each member got a different style, a man disguised in schoolgirl, a dark cool guy, a funny guy, an ugly drummer, and a bad guy !
5th band, totally sucked ! there were only 2 girls wich stand up for them.
6th band, was the one wich came from Tokyo. They were just like professional, get down the public to play, made everybody (besides the men) dance ! It was really cool !
the last band was not so bad, but the singer was wearing a short pant, and looks like a kid. He really got no charisma, so it didn't impressed me ...

Anyway it was a really good experience, so i guess i'll go back to see this kind of event, maybe even go back for some of those band.
here's some of the band i saw
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJWxJVHvaYA]La'Skull[/url]
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig4HYtFJ8tc]Ciela'xeno[/url] 4th band, but they changed a little

Way of mind

Sorry , it's been a long time !!!! But it seems i was too lazy to usa a blog as a diary. It's not really my type to write everyday what i did, and share all the useless things i do with everybody. I will give it a try again , and see if i can write some "stupid" things regulary. Not everyday, but if i can just share at least the funny or interesting experiences, that should be a good thing. And i really need to practice my englis, so as i said before, it's one of the best exercises. Also don't forget the posting board, the adress is in the link.

Today i just want to show you one of the weird way of thinking of japanese people. 3 weeks ago, i did a hiking in Kyoto with my classmates, some teachers, and some others students of my university. It was a oneday trip, a sunny day, so i decided to wear a cap. I don't know if this detail is important or not, but it was a Yankees' cap. So we meeting everybody at uni, and then taking train all together, meeting some new people, talking to a small group then to another. In Umeda (city center of Osaka) we had to change train, and when waiting on the platform, i started talking with 2 japanese girls, since meleika (my french comrade) was talking with a korean friend besides me. I talked with these 2 girls for maybe 10 minutes, learned they were studying french (but they can't say anything else than "Bonjour", or "Ca va ?", and couldn't even remember how to say good bye). They couldn't pronounce my name well, but i got used to that. Then the talking mixed together with my french and korean friends, and when the 2 girls realized that she was french, they were really excited like ,"wow ! you're french, we studiying french, we're first year !". Then i said , but you know i'm french as well, i told you. They looked t me really surprised, and then said " oh really ? We thought you were american because you're wearing a cap." ............

That's all i have to say (V_V)

Messages board

With my friends being in Japan at the moment, just like me, we decided to open a message board talking about Japan and where you can get the opportunity to talk with people being in Japan at the moment.
It's in french, but you're welcome to post any messages in english there'll always be some people to answer you. And there's also a part for foreign languages : japanese or english.
So feel free to register, and come to talk or ask any questions you want.
Here's the link :

http://raitoh.proboards98.com/index.cgi

Asakusa

Sorry they're not really good pictures, but that's all i got.