Comments on: A Year In Japan http://tokyo.metblogs.com/2005/05/30/a-year-in-japan/ Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:09:03 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: hmmm http://tokyo.metblogs.com/2005/05/30/a-year-in-japan/comment-page-1/#comment-208 hmmm Wed, 01 Jun 2005 06:15:18 +0000 http://tokyo.metblogs.com/2005/05/30/a-year-in-japan/#comment-208 Hi from Spain (sorry for my poor english) ! I want to go to Japan next year ! It's my dream ! Hi from Spain (sorry for my poor english) ! I want to go to Japan next year ! It’s my dream !

]]> By: locomote http://tokyo.metblogs.com/2005/05/30/a-year-in-japan/comment-page-1/#comment-207 locomote Wed, 01 Jun 2005 01:50:15 +0000 http://tokyo.metblogs.com/2005/05/30/a-year-in-japan/#comment-207 What an appropriate post for me to discover this blog on as I'm planning to come to Tokyo in the next few weeks to live for a year - maybe more. It's nice to hear that after having been there a while, you will miss it instead of kicking the wall of the airport on the way out and flipping the ground off as the plane takes off. Hope I'll grow to miss it one day too. ^^ What an appropriate post for me to discover this blog on as I’m planning to come to Tokyo in the next few weeks to live for a year – maybe more.

It’s nice to hear that after having been there a while, you will miss it instead of kicking the wall of the airport on the way out and flipping the ground off as the plane takes off. Hope I’ll grow to miss it one day too. ^^

]]> By: Jim O'Connell http://tokyo.metblogs.com/2005/05/30/a-year-in-japan/comment-page-1/#comment-206 Jim O'Connell Tue, 31 May 2005 06:26:57 +0000 http://tokyo.metblogs.com/2005/05/30/a-year-in-japan/#comment-206 >On the upside, bad japanese TV gets me to go to more places outside than I would normally in the US. Yeah - maybe that's it. I was horrified by how bad TV in Japan was when I came here, but quickly adapted to watching a hell of a lot less than I did in the US. After Sept. 11, '01, I stopped watching completely and now I don't have a TV at all. Recently, I read that Americans watch *on average* four and a half hours of TV a day. There's absolutely nothing they could show that would be worth that much time out of my day... >On the upside, bad japanese TV gets me to go to more places outside than I would normally in the US.

Yeah – maybe that’s it. I was horrified by how bad TV in Japan was when I came here, but quickly adapted to watching a hell of a lot less than I did in the US. After Sept. 11, ‘01, I stopped watching completely and now I don’t have a TV at all.

Recently, I read that Americans watch *on average* four and a half hours of TV a day. There’s absolutely nothing they could show that would be worth that much time out of my day…

]]> By: Zeb http://tokyo.metblogs.com/2005/05/30/a-year-in-japan/comment-page-1/#comment-205 Zeb Tue, 31 May 2005 01:24:03 +0000 http://tokyo.metblogs.com/2005/05/30/a-year-in-japan/#comment-205 "I never would have expected TV in the world's second-largest economy to be so low-budget and uninspired." I'm glad you said this, sometimes I think I'm alone on this one. this is the one thing that doesn't make sense to me about Japan--the land where technology is more advanced than most of the planet, and people 'like' tech. Even the movies seem to be low-budget (even the big budget ones like "Returner" and "Casshern". I really don't get it. Japan manages to reproduce anything they want on a global level quality, but when it comes to TV and Movies, this seems to disappear. Any have any answers?? On the upside, bad japanese TV gets me to go to more places outside than I would normally in the US. “I never would have expected TV in the world’s second-largest economy to be so low-budget and uninspired.”

I’m glad you said this, sometimes I think I’m alone on this one. this is the one thing that doesn’t make sense to me about Japan–the land where technology is more advanced than most of the planet, and people ‘like’ tech. Even the movies seem to be low-budget (even the big budget ones like “Returner” and “Casshern”. I really don’t get it. Japan manages to reproduce anything they want on a global level quality, but when it comes to TV and Movies, this seems to disappear. Any have any answers??

On the upside, bad japanese TV gets me to go to more places outside than I would normally in the US.

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