Just a day in the life in Japan.

Ya know, this kinda stuff.

Post with substance? (well not really)

I don't think I can possibly sum up the past month in Japan... I might post of a video of an update on all that. But! Tonight I met some friends, a couple who studied at my school on exchange, and we ate sashimi (raw fish) and drank beer. A dinner completely of raw fish...

I especially wanted to mention this just to say I got to try crazy stuff like shark's head (mmm cartilage), whale, crab eggs, umi no budou (lit. "sea grapes") and tentacles (or were they...?). Also had this little squid before the big sashimi boat came out... it was a whole squid, head and all. So in eating it, I had to remove the head with my chopsticks. :(

They had crazy decor at the place.

The inspiration for this blog's name

Sapp Time, by Bob Sapp. It is ridiculous, funny and so politically incorrect. So at he same time you can see how non-Japanese people can be portrayed in the media in Japan (especially black folks). Maybe this is why a guy said "kowai" (lit. "scary") right to my face while passing me on the street (jerk)...

According to the Japan wikipedia article, the population is as follows: 98.5% Japanese, 0.5% Korean, 0.4% Chinese, 0.6% "other".

So being a white person who's a part of that 0.6% percent, I'm going to accumulate probably, like, thousands of instances where the locals will stare, assume I am a tourist who doesn't actually live here or know Japanese language or culture, etc. Sigh. (But I got myself into this whole deal being pretty aware of this, so I suppose it's alright?)

So in a way, this video can also encompass the (non-asian?) foreigner's struggle living in Japan, haha...