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Sword of @bunburyoudoujp . イギリス人。格闘技歴24年間以上。居合道四段。Practicing #martialarts & #running in Japan since 2006. 🇯🇵🇬🇧. 文武両道 (bunburyoudou) Substack below:
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This
#iaido
sequence is pretty much the first thing you learn in Japan Kendo Federation Iaido.
It’s basic but very nuanced. Basics are the foundation on which everything else is built.
#居合道 #剣術 #文武両道 #武士道
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To all the people complaining about Tom Cruise being in The Last Samurai, did you guys even watch the movie?
Tom Cruise is not “The Last Samurai.”
Cruise’s character is essentially a foreign witness to the samurai being abolished as a class during the Meiji Restoration.
The
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I added English subtitles to the video translated into Japanese by
@Eichan_GZ
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A Chinese girl (possibly an exchange student) is horrified at how bad British food is. She only eats the terrible food once a day but is gaining weight.
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I translated the video into English.
She doesn’t make any demands or mention anything other than the fact she only eats udon, because whenever she asks about the food it always seems to contain pork.
The show is about asking what Japanese food foreigners like.
Answer : Udon
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For those that can’t read the subtitles, this poor girl is traumatized at how horrible British food is. She only eats the terrible food once a day but has already gained 2 kg due to it being so high calorie.
…🤣
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Karolina Shiino is stepping down as Miss Japan, largely because having an affair with one of the judges of the competition.
Unseen Japan: ‘Carolina Shiino is resigning after right wing hate.’
Stay classy, Unseen Japan. 🤣
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@PatsOnYaBack
Did you not watch the movie?
To all the people complaining about Tom Cruise being in The Last Samurai, did you guys even watch the movie?
Tom Cruise is not “The Last Samurai.”
Cruise’s character is essentially a foreign witness to the samurai being abolished as a class during the Meiji Restoration.
The
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“Cultural appropriation” is a term I’ve seen some people throw around recently.
I am not Japanese but I speak Japanese and have been living in Japan since 2006. I’ve been practicing martial arts since I came out here, and although striking arts are my core style I also study
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There are a few media illiterate people out there who will view the inclusion of foreigners in ANY way as some kind of woke DEI/pandering stunt. To them The Last Samurai is the same as Assassin’s Creed Shadows.
To them, if it’s not a a depiction of an ethnostate it’s invalid.
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Japan has a serious problem…
I don’t know what it is, but I keep seeing foreigners posting this and getting thousands of likes.
Follow me for more hot takes.
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Ah, Tokyo. I understand that it’s a big place but it’s not until you see it from the air on a clear day that you realize how stupendously huge it is. This picture doesn’t even capture the scale. It keeps going.
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The 士 (shi/samurai) part of the four occupations: Regarding Yasuke
Because it’s obvious that some people don’t understand the 士農工商 (shinōkōshō) system let me briefly explain.
This system became more solidified in the Edo period but at this point people were divided into
@bunburyoudouuk
@Scratch_Point_Z
OK, so an African guy walks into Oda Nobunaga's court, standing taller than anyone they'd ever seen, rumoured to have the strength of 10 men. What profession do you think it's most likely that he was given?
Warrior
Farmer
Artisan
Merchant
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Foreigners in Japan to fall into 2 categories:
1. Foreigners that are happy in Japan
2. Gaijin with chips on their shoulders who would be unhappy no matter where they are
Here’s a thread 🧵 of things that annoy
#GaijinTwitter
about Japan and make them want to say:
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Some people are saying that because Tom Cruise was front and center on The Last Samurai poster that people thought he was “the last samurai.”
When Scream came out in 1996 Drew Barrymore (the most famous actress in the movie) was the focus of the advertising. People thought she
To all the people complaining about Tom Cruise being in The Last Samurai, did you guys even watch the movie?
Tom Cruise is not “The Last Samurai.”
Cruise’s character is essentially a foreign witness to the samurai being abolished as a class during the Meiji Restoration.
The
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@OliverJia1014
Also being distantly related to someone doesn’t make someone an authority on the history of the place in question.
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You don’t become part of “Gaijin Twitter” by being a foreigner in Japan.
You become part of Gaijin Twitter by being absolutely incapable of integrating into Japanese society and making it everyone else’s problem. On Twitter.
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The
#GaijinTwitter
thread. *Remastered*
Foreigners in Japan to fall into 2 categories:
1. Foreigners that are generally happy in Japan
2. Gaijin with chips on their shoulders who would be unhappy no matter where they are
Here’s a thread 🧵 of things that annoy Gaijin Twitter:
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I love it when I’m in the Japanese countryside and come across these unmanned produce stands. Just take what you want and put coins in the box. I picked up 3 bags of green beans, a bag of cucumbers, and a pumpkin for 500 yen. These things couldn’t exist without an honest society.
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Many Japanese people ask me where I’m from as a way to start a conversation. I also ask them where they are from…Because Japan has 47 prefectures, each with their own character and local point of pride.
This is regular human interaction.
It’s fun. Enjoy it.
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I really enjoy living in Japan. Crime is low, the country is beautiful, the food is excellent, and the people are lovely.
No country is flawless. But there are few (if any) countries that tick these boxes the way Japan does.
I certainly wouldn’t want to live anywhere else.
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Did you know this if someone adds you to a list you can see posts by people that have blocked you?
I just got added to a list and now I’m able to see the center of the universe again.
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@OliverJia1014
You too can be rich and successful by having your wealthy parents transfer assets to you. 🤣
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I’m still seeing posts of people saying “People were ok with The Last Samurai but not Assassin’s Creed.”
This is not an appropriate comparison.
People don’t like it when you take Japanese stories/settings and RANDOMLY replace the protagonists with non-Japanese characters.
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I saw this sign on a bar in Fukuoka Prefecture many years ago.
Why is it that some foreigners would look at this and then suddenly REALLY want to go here?
I can live without going to some dive bar that clearly doesn’t want me there.
Just move on.
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Many of the people saying, “Japan has an alcohol problem,” act like their own country doesn’t have an alcohol problem.
I’m from the UK. Weekends in city centers are like war zones. At least people in Japan can get drunk without glassing each other.
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The Last Samurai is set during the Meiji Restoration. A period of history where there was a great deal of interaction between Japan and the US as it modernized.
The Sengoku period happened hundreds of years before this and was characterized by civil wars across the country
Nobody is arguing saying he was a samurai 😂the argument is this was a movie about feudal Japan why did they bring a white guy as the main character? Y’all should be outraged just like how yall are outraged that a blk man is a Mc in a Japanese game
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So, if you are a foreigner in Japan with permanent residency you may lose your status if you don’t pay your taxes/health insurance.
Everyone on
#GaijinTwitter
pays their taxes and health insurance, right? So no problem…right?
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@Babberdabb59013
Actually he was a retainer.
What’s a retainer? Most people don’t know. But they do know the word samurai. Which is why it’s incredibly important that this warrior is acknowledged as a samurai.
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I don’t believe this dude is Japanese or in Japan.
This is a clout chasing LARP.
If he works in a convenience store in Yokohama it would be easy for him to take a picture of todays local newspaper (sold at Family Mart) along with a message. 🧵🪡
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Excuse the anecdote but in my city the government is actively installing new playgrounds, healthcare is free for children, and child support is available even to immigrants like me.
JAPAN is doing a bad job at hating kids and immigrants in my area.
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Ubisoft (Canada): “The best representative of a samurai in the Sengoku period is Yasuke. This is historically accurate.”
Team Ninja (Japan): “Demons and shit are taking over feudal Japan. Let’s make William Adams Irish and use magic to fight them.”
Grifter detected.
@bunburyoudouuk
@ChinoMareno
@SweetE346
Oh wow, the racists put random words on a picture so they can justify not engaging with the argument because they don't operate under logic or reason? How based of them.
Here, let me speak your language since you need pictures to comprehend a slightly complicated argument.
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Best community note ever. 🤣
Vladimir Putin is re-erected and within hours there are trucks out on the streets of Tokyo celebrating his hard fought victory.
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Nutcase: “Actually a retainer is more important than a samurai.”
-refuses to elaborate-
-blocks and leaves-
I didn’t even get a notification for this. It happened so fast. 🤣
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Japan hates kids so much it sets aside large parks with massive playgrounds.
Anecdotally of course. This is in Yokohama.
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Oh snap! Now it’s really unseen. 🤣
I literally just posted what you shared alongside another source, then pointed out that your original post got a
#CommunityNote
.
Stay classy,
@UnseenJapanSite
. 🤣
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Some people have told me that they live in Japan, can’t speak Japanese, and are happy.
That’s great. I’m not claiming it’s impossible to be happy if you don’t speak Japanese.
But if you can speak Japanese your world opens up and your quality of life improves. Why settle for ok?
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“Well, well, well. If it isn’t the consequences of my own actions.”
Get it together
#GaijinTwitter
🤣
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I live in Japan and I’m happy.
Many people live in Japan and are (obviously) not happy.
Road to success: Learn Japanese, get a hobby, work out, get an actual career, and accept that Japan is Japan.
If you don’t like me and want to do the opposite, that’s on you. Good luck. 👍
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This foreign guide in Kyoto takes some people to a shrine and is messing around noisily with the bells.
He’s confronted by a local and pretends not to speak Japanese.
His heavily accented “Maji de urusai na omae” is roughly translated as “Shut the f*ck up you noisy c*nt.” 😡
#拡散希望 鈴緒を柵に叩きつけて遊びながら参拝していた外国人を注意したところ、多人数から罵られ続けました。これが夜の八坂神社の実態。
#オーバーツーリズム #観光公害 #京都 #八坂神社
もう手に負えません…みなさん助けてください。
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@xadnilan
@Eichan_GZ
I’ve never eaten jellied eels. That’s very much a regional thing.
Cheese is pretty good in England though. But in general British food is very simple.
That’s why we needed to borrow food from other countries.
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The thing I hate most about this whole
#Warhammer
situation is the dishonesty.
Keep NEW things NEW. Don’t fucking retcon.
New female custodes, sound like pandering but ok
“There have always been female custodes” is a blatant lie and is an insult to the fans. 🧵🪡
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The Last Samurai was amazing. Just because someone who didn’t see it doesn’t like it and calls it “one of the most stupidest Hollywood movies from the 2000’s” doesn’t make it so.
Massive box office success. Loved in Japan & overseas.
Saying it’s awesome is not dying on a hill.
@bunburyoudouuk
@mhmd_sys
It's so silly that you are willing to die on this hill defending one of the most stupidest Hollywood movies from the 2000s.
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@BoyZangief
I bet the next scene in this TV program would be a focus on the udon she likes followed by both the presenters and the audience enthusiastically talking about how good it looks.
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“Now that I have naturalized as a Japanese citizen it’s time to make some changes around here.”
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I think it’s better for Japan to have foreigners living in the country that can’t speak Japanese but like the place rather than having foreigners living in the country that speak the language but want to destroy the country from within.
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#AssassinsCreedShadows
is a game set in the Sengoku Era of Japan.
Ubisoft have chosen the legendary samurai 弥助 (Yasuke) as the lead character of this franchisee.
With Ubisoft’s dedication to diversity, equity, and inclusion, let me explain why Yasuke is an LGBTQ icon.
Become a lethal shinobi assassin and powerful, legendary samurai in Feudal Japan. Assassin's Creed Shadows Official World Premiere Trailer now available on YouTube
#AssassinsCreedShadows
Watch now:
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“Can you live in Japan and never learn Japanese?”
If they like the country why not?
Follow up questions:
“Can you live in Japan while having a burning hatred for the country?”
and
“Can you build a meaningful career on doing nothing but complaining about where you live?”
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When you post a TikTok to complain about how awful and high calorie British food is.
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Unseen Japan deleted the post!
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Let me screenshot this just in case something happens to it.
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The concept of “white privilege” in Japan has come up recently.
I do full contact karate. At no point has anyone ever gone, “Let’s go easy on this dude because he’s white.”
The usual response I get is, “We can’t lose to that gaijin,” and people try to knock my head off.
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At an Izakaya with two Thai (of Chinese descent) friends.
Waiter (looking at me): “Do you need an English menu?”
Me: そうです…ね。この二人は日本語できないから、お願いします。
You could see that waiter’s brain shut down for a second. 🤣
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We need a section of Twitter/X for people that enjoy Japan.
#GaijinTwitter
is full of some of the most miserable, block happy people in existence.
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It’s not problematic to like Japan.
But it is problematic, TO YOU, if you hate Japan but choose to live there.
Sort yourself out, you absolute reprobate. Find a place to live where you can stop being a miserable jackass and get on with being a regular jackass. 🤣
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“Discipline in Japan may be second to none”
Unseen Jay and Detroit Rin disagree anecdotally, but don’t name a place where the discipline is better.
Seattle? Detroit? 🤣
You can point out the fallacy of Japan being a utopia without being an insufferable twat.
Yet it’s always the insufferable twats.
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Morning all!
It’s a grey day in Kanagawa
The sakura are blossoming, Family Mart exists, and Kanagawa Shinbun let’s me know that today is April 4th.
By the way, do you like my watch?
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Looks like “Ex-foreigner” Anne-Chan is getting dragged by Japan twitter.
Now Anne has a Japanese passport she says she’s from Fukuoka and takes offense at someone asking where she’s originally from.
Japan twitter I’d correct to call this person tiresome.
これ酷いな……これはダメだ。
英語もどこの人？は(会話内容によるけど多くは)出身国を聞いてる。
差別的な意味は全くない。全然。よくある質問。
この人がそれを知らないわけない。
このツイート、この人の思想信条をよく表してる。絶対ダメこんなの。
皆こんな押しつけの多様性論に騙されないで。
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A friend of mine just crushed a 100 miler from Shizuoka to Tokyo. Absolute beast!
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This should be a standard response to anyone with that symbol in their bio.
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#JapanLifeProTip
Niche interests of Japanese origin are also niche in Japan.
Most Japanese people don’t know much about Japanese martial arts beyond the fact that they exist.
You don’t suddenly become popular when you arrive in Japan because you are into weeb shit.
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I booked a dental appointment on Wednesday. The appointment was today. 30 minutes of cleaning followed by a check up. (No wait at the clinic).
Cost: 2,970 yen (20 USD)
Nice one, Japan.
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Dude is half Japanese but can’t speak the language. This is his response to me.
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Oh I can see the unseen as well.
What a time to be alive. 🤣
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Pro tip for people interested in living/working in Japan.
Being an eikaiwa teacher/ALT is not a permanent career.
You can use that job to get your foot in the door. 5 years (MAX). After that you better have a marketable skill…or a ticket home.
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#JapanLifeProTip
You don’t need a Japanese spouse to get permanent residency (PR).
As long as you pay your taxes, have a resume that shows you are useful to society, don’t have a criminal record, and can write an application (including an essay) in Japanese, you can get PR.
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If you are born in another country and naturalize to become a Japanese citizen, of course your nationality will become Japanese.
But if at that point you refuse to admit you were anything else, is that a form of trans identity? Transnihonjin?
“Don’t deadnationality me.”
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@SweetE346
A stolen valor like situation may be going on here. But it’s not like Yasuke himself is doing that. It’s the people at Ubisoft who are promoting him to legendary warrior status.
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Racists: “hOw iS a bLaCk mAn gOinG tO bLeNd iNtO cRoWdS”
It’s 2024. I’m a white man living in Japan and I don’t blend into crowds.
How is it *racist* in any way to say that someone doesn’t blend into crowds in Japan?
Ubisoft: “Yasuke is the warrior protagonist, Naoe is the stealth protagonist, he won’t be able to do stealth and in case you missed this, he is wearing a Samurai outfit just to make it extra clear, very simple!”
Racists: “hOw iS a bLaCk mAn gOinG tO bLeNd iNtO cRoWdS”
😵💫
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All this talk about Yasuke in the new
#AssassinsCreedShadows
game means that Naoe isn’t getting enough attention.
Question: Why does this assassin hold a sword like a baseball bat?
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Situation: You spend years studying Japanese through watching anime and reading visual novels. Your Japanese is absolutely pitch perfect thanks to your pitch dictionary, and you speak like a native speaker.
Then you come to Japan…
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@OliverJia1014
I don’t understand why stats are seen as accurate everywhere but Japan.
Low crime rates.
Oh yea? What about unreported crimes?
Low homeless population.
Oh yea? Japan is probably doing something sketchy with the numbers.
These assumptions aren’t measurable.
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C’mon guys. British food is not THAT bad.
Meanwhile…in the UK:
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A follower just sent this to me.
Good luck, Tom.
I hope you find happiness wherever you end up.
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Japan is amazing.
Sorry, Gaijin Twitter. I can’t hear your screaming over the sound of my aircon.
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This current
#Warhamner
situation in a nutshell.
Most people are annoyed with the ridiculous way female custodes been introduced. Not that they have been introduced.
Make it work in the lore. Unite the fans. Stop appealing to toxic tourists.
#WarhammerCommunity
#warhammer40000
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