I write about Japanese society.
30 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments kubo kazuya
In Japan, there is a next-generation seismic control system called "HiDAX-R," which uses seismic energy to control vibrations, meow. Currently, it can only store energy for damping purposes, but there is hope that it will be able to generate electri...
27 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments kubo kazuya
Boss: "You need to finish the documents by today, meow." Employee: "I didn't hear that, meow. I have personal matters, so I'm going home, meow. Please let me know in advance next time, meow." Boss: "It's common sense to finish this amount of work by...
27 Dec 2024 1 minute read 1 comment kubo kazuya
This might not be very familiar overseas, meow. Not just "nya" and "wan," but in Japan, there are dialects with distinctive endings, meow. For example, in Kansai dialect, you have "nen" and "yan," and in Hakata dialect, you have "to?" and "bai," meo...
26 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments kubo kazuya
However, in conversations with others, we tend to equate words with emotions, meow. For example, if A says to B, "I hate you!" meow, B might worry about being disliked, meow. But B's concept of "hate" and A's "hate" might be entirely different, me...
12 Dec 2024 1 minute read 18 comments kubo kazuya
Since I cannot become someone else, I can only see the world from my own perspective. I don't even know if the scenery I see is real, but my emotions are certainly there. In fact, I can assert that nothing else can be definitively known. Therefore,...
6 Dec 2024 1 minute read 2 comments kubo kazuya
The culture of "Read the air!" in Japan could be described as ultra high-context in English. Because Japan is an island nation with no escape, it becomes difficult to live if one is targeted by a group. To avoid being targeted, people become sensiti...
5 Dec 2024 1 minute read 2 comments kubo kazuya
Masashi Yanagisawa, a Nobel Prize candidate in sleep medicine, also states that he knows very little about sleep, which is his area of expertise. On the other hand, in Japan, there are many people who make definitive statements based on data and evi...
2 Dec 2024 1 minute read 1 comment kubo kazuya
However, in reality, your daily greetings and seemingly trivial actions might be having an incredibly positive impact on the company. Your greetings at work might be saving someone's day. If even one of your everyday actions were missing, the compan...
