May 20, 2015
A strange sidewalk
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About Me
- Charles
- Nakagawa-machi, Chikush-gun, Fukuoka-ken, Japan
- I have lived in Japan since 1976 and now consider it to be my permanent home. I have a very varied background having studied engineering, Japanese and East Asian studies, and education at the university level. I spent ten years in the Army where my job involved Area Studies, mostly in East Asia. When I started to teach in Japan, it was at a post high school level and, after I completed a PhD in education, I moved to a university where I become a full professor. After retiring, I taught part-time but am now completely retired and spend my enjoying myself. I am reasonably fluent in Japanese and at present all of my friends are elderly Japanese.
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The Japanese are inscrutable in many ways, and I'm reading a very old book by Lafcadio Hearn titled "Japan:An Attempt at Interpretation", which I found on the Free Books app. It's about the impact of religion on the culture from Shinto, to Buddhism and later Christian proselytizing. Antiquated, but interesting read!
Keep walking!
Metta, Jennifer from Canada
Hearn is dated but interesting. He was here when there were few other foreigners. I read that book as part of my college Japanese Studies program many years ago.
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