Stinton Johnson 🇵🇸
@JohnsonStinton
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J-E translator. Rice farmer. Trapper-hunter. Anarchist without adjectives. Recovering academic. Disillusioned by humanity but inspired by humans.
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Something I tell myself almost daily here: "Since when is 'speaking Japanese' a skill?" 🤣🤣 It's the bare fucking minimum to live here. 😂😂
Those Aunties humbled his ass quick, fast, and in a hurry -💀
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Hang in there kiddo...just gonna take my shoes and socks off and roll up my pants before I save ya!
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Harvested my rice yesterday with the help of my boys. It still has to be dried and sorted, as I wait for my third field to finish. Any Japan friends who wish to buy my Hakushu brand koshihikari shinmai send me a DM. I expect to deliver by mid October.
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Story time. A few days ago I was in my local 711 and I noticed a young couple dressed up talking to the clerk and holding a souvenir bag with the brand of my local distillery. I went up to the counter after they went outside and spoke to the clerk, who I am very familiar with.
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Didn't want to mention it publicly but my father in law passed this morning, and we found this self portrait of his. Made me so happy to see, so I wanted to share it. I knew him for 26 years and we lived with him for 5 years when we came back to Japan in 2013. お父さんありがとう!
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Anyways, this morning, I go in the conbini to pick up a few things, and decided to grab a beer. The same clerk sees me, and buys my beer for me. This is what I love about Japan. The enduring cohesion of relationships through endless giving. There's a deep social wisdom here.
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I also want to note that, in my experience, the conbini in inaka serves as an excellent point for sharing info and maintaining those relationships. It's not simply about consuming the fare, but showing one's face and getting to know others.
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When you have rice that needs to be polished in Japan, you can take it to one of these auto kiosks. They are common in rural areas. Not sure if they exist in urban areas. It costs 300 yen to polish 30kg. I polished about 100kg this time, which I sold to friends.
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Travelled to the big city with my wife yesterday to see my son busk for the first time. Video coming soon.
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That's my boy covering a Dream Theater song in Harajuku. It was for practice and entertainment purposes. No money was made from this performance, other than the drink I bought him afterwards.
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My daughter sent me these pics from Kamloops. There was a massive coronal mass ejection yesterday apparently. I wonder if we'll get a similar view in Japan this evening.
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Kids took off to Tokyo for new years. Just wife and me, but we both have colds. I'm drinking hot whisky with lemon and honey. And we're spending our evening watching sasquatch documentaries. 😆
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One pissed off mama bear in Hokkaido. You can see her cub running off into the forest on the left just before she charges.
春の熊は怖い。
これは本日採れ立ての映像です。
山菜採り、釣人が襲われるパターン。
よく『熊を殺さないで!!』『熊との共存を!!』『人間が悪い!!』って云う人達は、この可愛い可愛い熊さんの前に連れて行ってあげるから、なだめてあげてよ。
北海道なめんな（笑）
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My rice is developing well. Need to stay on top of cutting grass.
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It's official now. I have my 従事者証 (pro hunter's certificate) so I can now shoot all year round and collect bounties on deer, boar and monkeys. Now I've got to put in the time in the mountains to earn back all of the money it took to get to this point!
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Dropping my son off at the station. He's heading back to Tokyo now after a 5 day visit. Now we're all sad he's gone. Whiskey time.
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Had a good interview with the Japanese Wolf Association people yesterday. Took them out to the field to show how animals enter the cropland. They took lots of footage and will be editing up a video for their YouTube channel soon. They're lobbying hard to get wolves reintroduced.
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I've caught this meat and grown this rice. This is a major important step in my life.
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At my father in law's wake this evening after his cremation. They only hung three of his pictures, but he has dozens more. The funeral ceremony in Japan is so beautiful and solemn. It's been so moving to take part in.
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明日は全国（北海道以外）の狩猟解禁日！地元猟友会と巻狩りで出かける!ワクワク！熊が捕れるかな～！ Tomorrow hunt season starts across Japan, except for Hokkaido. I'll be heading into the mountains with my hunt club. Absolutely thrilled. Wonder if we'll get any bears...
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On the way to one of my fields I pass this landmark everyday. Yesterday, I saw someone spraying weed killer. The sign says: In 1880 (M13), Emp Meiji visited here and drank water from this spring and praised the community for its delicious water. The irony has left me in shock.
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My little girl is coming home for a 2-month visit in July. She's studying biology in BC with a goal of getting into wildlife conservation/vet medicine. She was pleased when I told her that when she's here we can dissect all the animals I catch. いい勉強になるぞ！
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All your rices are belong to us! 490 kg of rice husked, sorted thru an optical scanner, packed and ready to sell. Tbh, if there was a cheap and easy way, I would send half to Gaza.
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This is only temporary. This year's harvest was 46 bags of rice in husk 籾
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Out here harvesting by my lonesome self this morning.
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My daughter celebrating Eid with her Muslim friends and getting henna done with her Indian friends. Canadian university is a wonderful intercultural experience for students who have open hearts to different cultures.
#prouddaddy
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Was checking my traps and shooting a local mountain and stumbled upon a quite ill-kept Hachiman Shrine, visited by Ieyasu 421 years ago. Of course I did sampai and prayed for safe hunting and prosperity for my family. I always pray in English in my head. I don't think it matters.
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That was a long day. 32 bags harvested today. Fujisan in the background.
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I miss having little kids in Japan. Mine are now 17, 20, and 21.
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my lovely wife made minced tuna and baby sardine topped rice and miso soup with pork and veggies tonight. And she brought home a great craft gin. I must be doing something right.
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Merry Christmas all! Going to a potluck gaijin xmas party tonight and I made a big pot of deer stew. Currently simmering on the stove while I go check my traps. Will be seeing
@csmagor
tonight.
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Decent haul of potatoes this year. Eat local, my friends, it's one of the more revolutionary acts you can do against murderous capitalism.
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Cut up that deer and I'm cooking up the backstrap for the wife to bring in to her family tonight. I'm hanging back home tonight to take care of Ivy and the chickens. Whiskey soda and venison are on the menu.
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Went to an onsen hotel for a big piss up with the prefectural hunt team last night. Delicious food, good drink, great company, drunken karaoke, soothing bath the next morning, fantastic time overall.
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@bunburyoudouuk
It's a bit extreme of me to say, but I have an irrational contempt for the foreigners who have lived here for 10 years or more and have made no attempt to become conversant, let alone literate in the language.
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When your crazy friend comes from Kyoto to buy your rice, you gotta take him to see your local power spot.
Thanks for making the journey,
@BryonTRussell
may we meet again very soon.
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Venison backstrap for dinner. Aged 2 days in the fridge on rosemary and worcestershire.
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Done got my gun. No ammo yet. Gotta wait for my registration with the Prefecture to go through. It's only taken a year. 😂
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We got 2 deer. The meat was apportioned out to everyone. Then we all shared our stories over atsukan and a raging woodstove. Good times. There's a hunt every weekend now for the next 5 months.
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Borrowing my hunt club's cage trap over the summer to catch the boars that run through the area behind my rice fields. Nonfarmers just don't understand how difficult the battle with wildlife is when growing food.
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I got help on Sunday to hang rice. My wife and son came out for the day. My son (16) took frequent rests as teenagers do, but he did find a cute little baby field mouse in our rice fields.
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My son wanted to go experience the rotenburo in our local onsen with this heavy snowfall, so I took him. He's back now eating his inoshishi fried rice next to the fire in the backyard. #田舎生活
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Wasn't aware that Yonaguni island had it's own language. Wonderful place with wild horses roaming. I camped on a cliff there overlooking the ocean over 23 years ago. The ferry only came twice a week from Ishigaki island back then.
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Cutting up last year's straw. Later I'll be adding additional fertilizer to ready for the first till later this week. Pretty hot outside for April! 🥵
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4th field almost cut and bound. Only 4 more fields to go. 😴
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Deer curry goes perfect with a big glass of milk. The taters,onions,garlic,rice,and deer are harvested by us.
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@JakeinJapann
Getting laid is its own reward....adopting your partner's speech pattern is the price for the ride. Let them figure it out on their own.
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I have a little fantasy in my mind of heading out to Tokyo and out of the inaka for the weekend sometime and meeting up with some of my gaijin twitter friends for a bit of a piss up around T-town. Does that sound appealing to anyone? Introduce me to your watering holes?
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Passed my shooting test this morning. Hit 16 out of 25 clay pigeons. The legal requirement is only 2! Now it's on to the final stage of the process: permit to possess. Should take a month and a half.
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I did some water management at the rice fields today. Understanding water flow and stocks is quite interesting. Systems thinking in its purest form.
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Poor little k truck. That's 17.5 bags of unhulled rice. About 525kgs.
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Planted out my second field today. Doing 5 more over the weekend. It was a hot one today.
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I am here for this weather today. I'm hauling rice to and from JA for my rice teacher.
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That's all that was left after we took that boar. Fucker will feed 8 people for three days. I was covered in blood and mud by the end of the drag. Love days like this. Team work gets the job the fuck done.
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This one goes out to right wing nutjob gaijin twitter. The same causal chain applies to CO2 emissions, third world debt schemes, and waste exports. Right wing neoliberal policies create refugees.
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My chickens enjoyed the off cuts of the deer meat I spent half the day processing yesterday. They even drink the blood, which is truly fucking metal.
@TBeanpod
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@JapanIntercult
They just omitted the ubiquitous 共存 from the Japanese. What bothers me more is the use of the term 外国人材 We're no longer 外国人 but 人材; admitted for the labour we have to offer, rather than simply being a human being seeking to live somewhere else.
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As a translator I 'read' these words all too often, but I admit that some of the readings in my head were incorrect. 恥ずかしい！That's the power of Chinese characters. You can know the meaning without knowing the reading. This concept is alien to the uninitiated Westerner.
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Good father son time to finish off the day. He's my last kiddo at home so I'm trying to teach him as much sustainable skills as I can. Plan to teach him to use a chainsaw this summer. The thing is: over 50% of self reliance is planning.
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This is a small section of my usual mountain route. I've got traps along this road concentrated in three locations. Now that rice season is done, I can go back to focusing only on hunting and trapping.
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"I often hear people proclaim how outrageous it is to criticize Abe after his death, but haven't they conveniently forgotten that Abe himself was seen laughing at a hearing in front of a bereaved family of a victim of karoshi (death from overwork)?"
「亡くなった安倍元首相に鞭打つなんて信じられない！」なんて言う人をよく見るけど、安倍元首相自体が過労死遺族を前にヘラヘラ笑いだす人間だったというのを都合良く忘れてないか。
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A little knowledge drop by yours truly. 😅
What animals can you hunt in Japan?
And what kinds of limits apply?
🐻🦌🐗🐒
Rice farmer and hunter
@JohnsonStinton
shares his knowledge.
【Unpacking Japan podcast Ep.40】
Hunting in Japan with Stinton
Watch the full episode! Link below
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5th field cut and bound. The wife and son are coming out tomorrow to help hang it. Lost one of my ear buds somewhere in the field. 😢 was racing sundown behind the mountains. Disappears around 1645. Suntory highball time. 🍻
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Never underestimate a keitruck. That's hauling 28 bags at around 25 30kg per bag. Truck is rated for 350kg. 😂
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Picked up my police permission to shoot on the range and purchase ammunition for my shooting test. I'm booking in my test for the end of the month. Getting closer!
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Scouted campsite for son and cut up some firewood for him and his friends. Waiting for them to get to the house and then I'm taxiing them out in the kei truck. They can set up their own tents in the dark. 😂
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I went outside and spoke to them, and decided to drive them myself. We told the clerk this and she vouched for me since I was a 常連 (reg just). So I drove them to catch the express back to Kanagawa and that was that.
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@osaka_87
@BoltzmannBooty
I figure all the Japanese food my wife feeds me will cancel out my drinking and occasional smoking.
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Very sad day yesterday. The last bird of my original flock of Okazaki ohans passed yesterday night. I bought that flock of 12 birds in 2019 shortly after we built this house. I took her to the mountains and placed her under a tree as an offering. Lit incense and prayed. 😢
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In talks to translate an academic book on Japanese anarchism. Hope it works out, because I miss making intellectual contributions.
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It's almost like a constant battle against propaganda to keep the working class from understanding who their oppressors are...🤔 (hint: not immigrants or trans people)
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4kg of larch firewood at my local home centre goes for 1000 yen. I bet my wood pile is worth about 100000 yen at that price. 😂
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I haven't been getting too many hits with all of my anticapitalist anarchist propaganda recently, so I'll lure all the Japan peeps back with pics of inaka then resume my propaganda campaign.
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Today's hatake and home centre haul. Easy my onions with my deer meat and feel like Thor with my new sledgie.
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Been harvesting for the past 4 days. Still got about two weeks of work left. Trying to balance it with trans work so 3am mornings are too common right now. Due to bad weather and an overbooked rice dryer I'm hanging all my rice to sun dry this year, which is hard work.
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The guys took one young buck, and I was lucky enough to get three legs for Ivy. Hung up in the cold and will take slices a little bit at a time for her. 💕
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Someone reported my deer shooting video, so I had to delete it. 😢 I just want to communicate the concept of food self-sufficiency.
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Great day today. We got two deer. It was snowing lightly on the mountain top. Very calm and quiet snow. That's the best kind. Butchered up the deer into equal shares for everyone. Heavy winds in the pm blew snow off the mountains into the valley. Tonight is our opening party.
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My boy took a pic of me right after I finished my big job collapsed on the couch. 😂 Ivy is saying "can we go run now, daddy?"
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English setters are one of the most hyperactive dog breeds, so seeing her like this means she probably ran about two marathons today. A tired dog is a good dog. 😂
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Last field dry tilled. Next step is flooding and then wet till 代掻き. From this field, Fuji-san, Kitadake, and Kaikoma-ga-take are all visible.
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I messaged my local gun shop and ordered the Browning A-Bolt 12 gauge half-rifled shotgun. I'll be settling it at the end of next month, and once the police vet my request and check the gun specs, I'll be able to up my hunting game. Hopefully in May I'll be sniping deer
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Last day of harvest. It was my rice teacher's field and he loaded my truck up with rice to take to the local JA.
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Shooting tourney morning. Raining hard on the top of the mountain in Tatsuno, Nagano.
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She told me that they were on a tour of that distillery and had taken a public bus to get there, but had lost track of time and now were stranded because the bus times way out here were few and far between. The clerk told me that she was going to give them a ride to the station.
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Quick hike out in the mountains behind the distillery. Didn't see any critters. The bugs are out though!
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I'm a new member of my pref hunt team, and our first group hunt of the season is on Sep 24 at Fujiyoshida at the base of Mt. Fuji. I view it as an honour, as a foreigner here, to hunt in the foothills of that sacred mountain. Very excited about this.
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Just finished the interview with
@FishRicePodcast
it was such a pleasure to speak with them. I'm waiting outside my hotel now for them to pick me up for drinks. Their guest line up looks awesome. Stay tuned folks!
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Yesterday was last group hunt of the season. There is a group hunt next weekend but it's only for local hunters. No Tokyo people. I missed AGAIN. Was on a slope when two deer ran towards me. Guys were talking shit to me back at base. My new nickname 三連敗 three streak miss 😅
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