Here is an interesting Japanese compact washer for sale, brand name Toshiba. I am thinking perhaps it has an interesting impeller type of action.
Enjoy and konbawa.
Enjoy and konbawa.
Ohayo Goziemas!
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Good morninmg to you too!
ich ni sun chi
Ogenki desu-ka?
(Are you well?)
Genki-desu
(I am well.)
And one other Japnese phrase: Annato-no den-wa nan-ban desu-
ka: (What is your phone number?)
Ikikmasu-
Let's go.
Thank you for the post..
ich ni sun chi
Ogenki desu-ka?
(Are you well?)
Genki-desu
(I am well.)
And one other Japnese phrase: Annato-no den-wa nan-ban desu-
ka: (What is your phone number?)
Ikikmasu-
Let's go.
Thank you for the post..
I was sent to Japan for about two months on business about ten years ago. I tried to learn Japanese before I went from tapes and stuff, but it was quite difficult. I'm told my grasp of the language improved a lot after being there a bit, but I've forgotten much of it. Not that I knew much to begin with. Enough to order "udon" and "unagi", etc... But I did enjoy the culture there.
COOL!
I worked for a Japanese firm for a number of years.
Asians were in sales, locals/Americans in accounting. The accountants were considered *overhead* not revenue, so we were not very well thought-of.
Anyhoo... free Japanese lessons, who's interested.. MOI. ALL women (and me, WATCH IT!), Korean, Japanese-Amercian and Chinese students. When a concept was difficult, the Japanese instrucor threw on the board a Chinese character. CLICK-ON went the light-bulb by all....except me. Yet, the Japanese as a culture generally refuse to acknowlede their Chinese cultural and perhaps linguistic roots, and the power and magnitude of Chinese culture.
In America we are aware of racial differences and perhaps classes of people. But in Japan, if you are of Korean race and BORN IN JAPAN, you are NOT a citizen of Japan and can NEVER become one.
Why is it that people from the smallest islands are the most fiercely proud of themselves and their culture?
I worked for a Japanese firm for a number of years.
Asians were in sales, locals/Americans in accounting. The accountants were considered *overhead* not revenue, so we were not very well thought-of.
Anyhoo... free Japanese lessons, who's interested.. MOI. ALL women (and me, WATCH IT!), Korean, Japanese-Amercian and Chinese students. When a concept was difficult, the Japanese instrucor threw on the board a Chinese character. CLICK-ON went the light-bulb by all....except me. Yet, the Japanese as a culture generally refuse to acknowlede their Chinese cultural and perhaps linguistic roots, and the power and magnitude of Chinese culture.
In America we are aware of racial differences and perhaps classes of people. But in Japan, if you are of Korean race and BORN IN JAPAN, you are NOT a citizen of Japan and can NEVER become one.
Why is it that people from the smallest islands are the most fiercely proud of themselves and their culture?
Had an interesting experience one time at Mitsuwa Marketplace (big Japanese grocery store) in Arlington Heights, Illinois near Chicago.
They had a rice milling machine (changing brown rice to white rice) and were handing out samples. Riciest rice I've ever tasted (really delicious)
Anyway, they were selling the rice, together with a brown dusty stuff in a bag marked with Kanji only for a couple bucks. I suspected it was the rice bran, but wanted to find out for sure.
I asked a couple of women who appeared Japanese, but they didn't read Japanese, so couldn't help. I then took it to one of the employees and asked him.
He looked at the label, screwed up his brow a little bit, then said "hmm, polish....rice...yes, that's what it is".
It was very clearly not a "sounding out" or "phonics" type situation, much better as a demonstration of how a pictographic writing concept worked. Each symbol or couple symbols truly represented a concept.
Interesting cross-cultural observation.
They had a rice milling machine (changing brown rice to white rice) and were handing out samples. Riciest rice I've ever tasted (really delicious)
Anyway, they were selling the rice, together with a brown dusty stuff in a bag marked with Kanji only for a couple bucks. I suspected it was the rice bran, but wanted to find out for sure.
I asked a couple of women who appeared Japanese, but they didn't read Japanese, so couldn't help. I then took it to one of the employees and asked him.
He looked at the label, screwed up his brow a little bit, then said "hmm, polish....rice...yes, that's what it is".
It was very clearly not a "sounding out" or "phonics" type situation, much better as a demonstration of how a pictographic writing concept worked. Each symbol or couple symbols truly represented a concept.
Interesting cross-cultural observation.
Children, please avoid this panel. TYVM.
In Japanese, the English words for private body parts are used becausee those words are considered less rude than the Japanese proper words.
My aunt (who has been here for 50 years) just did something like this the other day. Instead of using the Greek word in a Greek sentence to describe what her new husband (fresh off the boat) was talking about [that lazy arrogant spolied twisted Euro lout], she felt more comofortable using English for the *bad* word. --Which was funnier in that that word is more powerful to ME!
Well, he said to her, YOU want F - - - ing, YOU pay for it (support me). Mind you the F word was the only one in English.
I NEARLY DIED LAUGHING.
She divorced his @$$ off right quick and bye-bye Green Card, baby.
In Japanese, the English words for private body parts are used becausee those words are considered less rude than the Japanese proper words.
My aunt (who has been here for 50 years) just did something like this the other day. Instead of using the Greek word in a Greek sentence to describe what her new husband (fresh off the boat) was talking about [that lazy arrogant spolied twisted Euro lout], she felt more comofortable using English for the *bad* word. --Which was funnier in that that word is more powerful to ME!
Well, he said to her, YOU want F - - - ing, YOU pay for it (support me). Mind you the F word was the only one in English.
I NEARLY DIED LAUGHING.
She divorced his @$$ off right quick and bye-bye Green Card, baby.
Back in '96 I visited Japan twice, for total of a couple of months. While there, the Japanese host company provided a laundry room in the laboratory building for us visiting engineers. I remember going to do a small load of laundry, and seeing a crowd of American engineers around the washers. I thought maybe all of them were in use, but there was one free. I didn't pay much attention, although I did notice there was no agitator. Also cold water only. I tossed in my clothes, put in the detergent, and started the machine. As I started to walk away, an engineer asked, "Aren't you going to watch?". I lifted the lid and noticed the water was sloshing the clothes around. That was enough for me. The group sort of shook their heads collectively as I walked away. Well, I had more pressing things on my mind, and it was before my laundry awakening 
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The machines were National/Panasonic/Matsushita, that's about all I recall. The laundry came out clean enough.
In retrospect I think perhaps the provision of the laundry facility was a subtle hint to the American engineers about their personal cleanliness. I think there was also a shower facility there... lol...
.The machines were National/Panasonic/Matsushita, that's about all I recall. The laundry came out clean enough.
In retrospect I think perhaps the provision of the laundry facility was a subtle hint to the American engineers about their personal cleanliness. I think there was also a shower facility there... lol...
