Naraigoto ~Culture Lesson of Japanese kids~

Naraigoto is culture lesson or after-school lesson in Japanese.
These are the famous lessons many Japanese kids are learning.

1: English Lesson
There are many English lesson class for kids in Japan, but actually there are few Japanese who can speak English in the usual elementary or junior highschool.
Japanese school teach all  subject in Japanese and English class is set just as optional class.

2: Swimming School
Swimming school is one of the standard lesson for kids.

3:Piano Class
Piano will be the most famous class of music.

4: Calligraphy
Calligraphy has been losing popularity but it was a standard lesson in the past.

5: Abacus
Likewise Calligraphy, it has been losing popularity. Everything is changing to digital now.

6: Classical Ballet
Classical Ballet is said to be made girl good figure.

7: Soccer  / Baseball
In the past, there were kids baseball teams more than kids soccer teams but soccer is getting popular after the establishment of J-League(Japanese soccer League)in 1993.

Sometimes kids are affected by something and start learning it, as
start learning figure skating after seeing Vancouver Olympic or start
learning tennis after seeing anime "Tennis no oujisama".
Many kids may start learning soccer seeing world cup game (^^)/

Now there are so many lessons other than these lessons like "Dance", "Computer", "Painting", "Cooking Class", "Karate", "Boxing", "Rugby" etc...
What kind of Lesson are there in other countries?
Kids have a lot of opportunity to recognize what they like or what sense do they have.

FYI, the No1 lesson was not in the above classes. No1 lesson was cram-school.
Average monthly cost for culture lesson is about ¥5,000 for 1 subject and the total cost of culture lesson is about ¥10,000yen per month, and the average cost for cram-school is ¥10,000~¥30,000 per month.

Many Japanese kids are crammed in the cram-school after the school...

Boys Be Ambitious!

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Anison...Anime Song

Anison is the abbreviation of Anime Song.
With the Anime and Seiyuu(Voice actor) boom, Anime Song is getting popular.
What is amazing is the quality of the music, some of them are so attractive and the music make impression more than usual pop music.
Many anime and anime songs are created and posted on You tube, and Nikodo and
other web site, and good songs are spreading through word of mouth with the web site evaluation.
Everybody can share the music easily and by free of charge through these web site, that may be one of the reason that anime songs are spreading so fast and worldwide. Good anime songs are built on everybody's evaluation, many likes! not by the big promotion of the record company.
Not only the Japanese anime itself but the anime song and seiyuu(voice actor) will attract more and more people in the world in the near future.

One of the anime song... from anime "Angle Beats!"

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Like Gogh Night Cafe??

Isn't it like Gogh Night Cafe?

This is a picture of a summer festival called "Mitama matsuri" of Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. The combination of Japanese lantern and night sky is as beautiful as Gogh picture.Yasukuni Shrine Summer Festival

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Real and virtual of Manga (K-ON)

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A song called "Love" of girls heavy metal band "Death Devil" in Manga K-ON is now in the ranking of itunes.

"Death Devil" is not a real band, it is a band in the manga, however a real CD was released on 23rd June, 2010.

K-ON is a manga describing the story of high school girls rock band. 

As far as there is manga fun, a product, music, food... anything in the manga will be produced as "real" product from various manga. 

Imagination and virtual world of manga will be a little bit real things with those real goods in the story.

Type of Boys&Girls in Japanese

The way of type to describe boys and girls in Japan.


Kireikei and Kawaiikei(Girl Type)


"kei"means like "group", Kirei group and Kawaii group.
Kirei+kei(group): Beautiful girl, sophisticated girl, cool beauty, model type, elder sister type
Kawaii+kei(group):Cute girl, lovable, friendly, younger sister type
We sometimes talk like "Is your girlfriend Kireikei or Kawaiikei?"
Girls will feel good to be said "Kirei" or "Kawaii", however personally I will feel happy to be said "Kawaii". It is just my point of view, however "Kawaii" seems to include lovely feeling more than "Kirei".
Which type you are?


Soushokukei and Nikushokukei(Boy Type)


Soshoku+kei(group):Soushoku means plant-eating. Soushoku type boys are calm, shy, and hard to attack girls by himself but kind and gentle boys.
Nikushoku+kei(group):Nikushoku means meat-eating. Nikushoku type boys are aggressive to attack girls by himself.
In Japan, Soushoku boys seems to be increasing. Are you Soushokukei?
I think, comparing Japanese boys with boys in the world, Japanese boys will be all Soushokukei thus there is Nikushoku girls in Japan. Girls who are aggressive to attack boys and have initiative for dating, Soushoku boys will feel comfortable with those girls. If demand and supply matches, everybody can spend lovely life with their best partner.

Japanese Traditional Color

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Kabuki, Kimono, Japanese style interior, shrine, temple, many places and things in Japan, you can see deep, rich, austerely Japanese traditional colors.
Japanes traditional color with HTML tag
Japanese traditional color has color name in Kanji which shows the origin and image of the color.
Here are some pic of Japanese traditional color!

Japanese Emoji and Kaomoji

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Using Emoji(image illustration like piktogram)in mobile email like short message or web email are common in Japan.

In Japan, we can register our individual email only for mobile phone, and short message can be used only for the communication between same mobile company user. This system may be different with other countries. Mobile phone Emoji can use only for mobile phone and if the email with Mobile phone Emoji is sent to WEB email, it will get garbled. (See Mobile phone Emoji in the picture)

For WEB email and sometimes for mobile phone we use Kaomoji(Kao=Face Moji=letter). Similar things will be used in the world, however Japanese Kaomoji is little bit original one. Emoji and Kaomoji is useful to express the emotion, situation, reality. 

Here are some of them which are so common in Japan. Following picture is Emoji for mobile phone.

( ^-^)/  Hello 

(>_<) Oh,no 

(^o^) Smile 

m(_ _)m Sorry 

(^_^;) Sweat

(T_T) Cry

Here are more Kaomoji in the link, some of them are so long and hard to recognize.

Good Morning! Kaomoji

Hello! Kaomoji

Good Evening! Kaomoji

Good Night! Kaomoji

Bye Bye! Kaomoji

Yoroshiku! Kaomoji

Congradulation! Kaomoji

Thank You! Kaomoji

Sorry! Kaomoji