It is longer since I've left a note, when I turn on a skiing holiday was (report the next time) and done some other courses at the university (more or less) did. So I had
leave last week 2 term papers, presentations, and 3 (1-2 Individualpräs groups.) Keep one of which lasted 1 1 / 2 hours and partly in English was partly in Japanese. Yes, it was a stressful and time-consuming week. The good thing: For half of my classes I have to do nothing now, and the other half is not as strenuous.
now to the promised summary of my Tokyo trip.
After Tokyo, I flew by plane with a Japanese line from Kobe Airport. Note: Japan Airlines flight attendants are all female, young, and almost always very pretty, as stressed by their trendy uniforms. This is not sexist or similar meaning, it is considered the unofficial requirement in Japan, and flight attendants are normally chosen in large part to this (unofficial) criteria.
(The uniforms of the AUA, whether male or female, I find personally sehr häßlich)
Der Kobe-Airport ist ganz neu (Eröffnung 2006), dient ausschließlich zu Inlandsflügen, weswegen er sehr klein ist und liegt auf einer kleinen künstlichen Insel gleich südlich von Port Island (der Portliner-Zug verbindet beide Insels mit dem Festland).
Es gab einige Kontroversen bezüglich des Baus und Betriebs des Flughafens, unter anderem da der Kansai International Airport praktisch in der Nachbarschaft liegt, auf die ich aber nicht genauer eingehen werde (u.a. wirtschaftliche, technische und politische Gründe). Soweit ich gehört habe, gibt es auf Wikipedia (Deutsch und Englisch) einige gute Zusammenfassungen der Problematik, für jene, die es interessiert.
Thankfully I was allowed to stay at Helmut, although his home is being rebuilt, and therefore the residents for 1-2 years in a container move-home had. Accordingly, his present room is tiny (about 6.5 square meters), the Japanese will probably not disturb it, which should be used in limited space.
As reported last time we went to His Majesty, where we met some friends of Helmut, one Japanese and two German. Later in the city is then something strange happened: Somehow it came to da0 Helmut and I would sing the Japanese anthem, with the Germans (from Bavaria) and the flag in the middle.
Imagine the image before precisely: Three foreigners, 2 men, 1 woman, surrounded by Tokyo, the woman holding her chest a small Japanese flag, while the men, they accompany and sing the Japanese anthem.
Yes, our assimilation is progressing well.
Resistance is futile.
is the way to the Central Station of Tokyo (Tokyo Station name) was built in the English style architecture.
After lunch we then moved on to Akihabara, the famous art Geek / Otaku district of Tokyo. Um's in einem Satz zu sagen: Du bist interessiert an Computer/ Spiele/ Anime-Manga oder etwas ähnlichem? Fahr dorthin. Sofort. Akihabara muß man zumindest einmal gesehen haben, wenn man in Tokyo war.
In Roppongi waren wir nicht, aber um es mit den Worten eines Bekannten zu sagen: Gott existiert in Roppongi nicht, der ist auf Urlaub oder sonstwas.
Dafür haben wir einen Blick auf eines, der im Moment sehr angesagten, Maid-Kissa geworfen, d.h. soviel wie Dienstmädchen/-magd Café. In diesen Cafés sind die Kellner ausnahmslos junge hübsche Mädchen, in, je nach Café verschiedenen, Dienstmädchenuniformen. Sie sprechen mit hoher, zuckersüßer Stimme und in einer grammatikalischen Form, die den Gast besonders hochstellt und mit einer anderen, die sie selbst niedriger stellt. Zudem verwenden sie Phrasen als würde der Besucher in seine Villa nach Hause kommen. Das hört sich dann in etwa so an: "Willkommen zu Hause mein verehrter Herr/Gebieter. Womit darf ich Euch heute dienen? Bitte macht es euch gemütlich während ich Euch serviere." etc. Bei uns, oder noch schlimmer in den USA, frage ich mich wie lange es wohl dauern würde, bis die ersten Demonstrationen und Proteste von Feministinnen einsetzen? Reingegangen sind wir dann nicht, da wir nicht 1 Stunde warten wollten, aber gesehen muß man sowas auch einmal haben.
In Akihabara you can watch the craziness of the Japanese very well.
As a model kit:
I present: The Nazi-beetle
Our companions are back home, while Helmut and I were on our way to the Yasukuni shrine, take a stroll through the calmer areas Toyos did. In this it is very nice, and it comes on, as in a city the size of Bruck and Graz; nunmal Tokyo is also called "greenest" city in the world.
The Yasukuni Shrine is that shrine, which always causes controversy in politics, since there the souls of the fallen soldiers of various wars since 1855, are revered, but also including some convicted war criminals of the 2nd world war, which regurgitates acid especially in China.
I will not comment on the circumstances, since the theme included references to politics, reclamation, religion and culture, at least one dedicated, if not would fill several entries. It said only so much that it is not nearly so easy to explain and simple to use, how many people may think.
The shrine is also a museum with various musicians Expo, for example:
The pilot is waiting in front of his Zero fighters (Mitsubishi A6M) to the inspection by the commander
One of the two 20mm guns of the A6M5
on Okinawa found with bullet holes provided, artillery guns
addition to the 2nd World War II, actually here, "Great East Asian War," because the fighting in China have been covered since '37, deals but the majority (at present) with the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05. We habem these exhibitions but not considered because it was already late, the museum was before the closing, and two History freaks like us for anything but take several hours (to say nothing of the subsequent discussions about it at all).
It is now night and then after returning to Helmut's home, I drove home, this time using the Nozomi Shinkansen. 589 kilometers in 2 hours 48 minutes, and exactly 2h 48min as indicated in the timetable, I, the accuracy of these trains (Shinkansen) do not mention often enough (well, maybe 2hrs 47min's were).
Conclusion: Tokyo is / was very nice and interesting and I would like to visit it again, but because of its size, I would want to live there permanently.
Much Thanks to Helmut for his hospitality and his work as tour guides!
The next time I report on my ski trip to Nagano, and shortly also on New Year's in Kobe.
interesting (and funny) facts / opinions about Japan:
Tokyo (东京) literally means "Eastern Capital" and it is only since 1868, since the Meiji Restoration and the move of the Emperor of Kyoto in the former Shogunpalast after Tokyo, the official capital of Japan, and in doing so after about 1000 years from Kyoto as the capital (a fact which many people of Kyoto have always regretted). The city also bears the first since This year the name of Tokyo, before it was called Edo, and was during the Tokugawa Shogunate (since 1603), although not officially the capital, political and administrative center of the country and the seat of the shogun. Therefore, this period is 1603-1853/1868 (1853 to 1868 is more or less as an interim period) also referred to generally as the Edo period.
Today, there are actually no real "city" Tokyo. There are 23 districts with the inner about 8.5 million people, all of which have separate management and act as their own cities, and the prefecture of Tokyo, with 12-13 million inhabitants the most populous, consisting of the inner districts and attached regions (where Interestingly, including several Pacific islands to) And the Tokyo metropolitan area, which extends to other prefectures (so this includes the city of Yokohama) and has almost 35 million, the largest metropolitan region in the world.
All three names exist and are used officially. It has therefore a certain similarity to Vienna, which is both a city, country and capital of Austria.
Tokyo is one of the most important cities in the world and is despite its size and very clean and green, and also as one of the safest cities in the world. The author himself is more concerned in the night by the Graz city park to walk, than by the Ueno Park in Tokyo (Obwohl Graz natürlich auch sehr sicher ist, keine Frage).
Diese Stadt gehört mit Sicherheit auch zur Liste jener Städte, die jeder Mensch einmal im Leben besucht haben sollte.
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