… that is “Happy New Year” (in Japanese of course 
).
Ok, someone could argue that wish “Happy New Year” on January 14th it isn’t really fair, but I’d like to tell you something about new year’s tradition in Japan.
In most Western countries, the biggest holiday is Xmas, but in Japan it is the New Year. Japanese have a lot of things to do to prepare for January 1st.
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Dude and me are very keen about manga.
What’s manga?
The manga is Japanese comics. We had read some of that, such as DNA2, Dragon Ball, Ranma 1/2, Ah! My Goddess, Shadow Lady, Chobits, Fushigi Yugi, Video Girl AI, Black Cat, Ayashi no Ceres, Imadoki, I”s, Gundam, Dr Slump & Arale… and more.
I have found a video of one of that and I think it’s very lovely and sweet.
Look!
What do you think about that?
Japanese are sometimes crazy people. Do not misunderstand me: I love Japanese guys. They are genius in some situations.
Check this:
Are you sad? Gloomy? Do you feel blue-ish? Don’t do that!
Life is always full of beautiful things, but we forget that. Sometimes you need a nudge, to understand that life is pink and not blue.
Here there is one.
I was in Japan, 5 months until January 2007.
I went for my doctorate and I work in a very pleasant place.
I found many friends, some of them I cannot forget.
It was hard, live abroad, in a foreigner country. I cannot speak japanese, so it was quite difficult.
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