Archive for October, 2020
A Restaurant that is Gentle to Women Posted by eriko1 on Oct 29, 2020
Gender inequality (男女不平等) still seems to be alive and strong in Japan. But now it has become discreet without also being ill-intentioned. What I mean is that nobody seems to have any idea that s/he is discriminating (差別する) or is being discriminated against. Perhaps discrimination may be too strong of a word. Stereotyped, or over-generalized may be more…
Who am I? Posted by eriko1 on Oct 15, 2020
This week, my students are trying to write their names in Katakana. As I was helping one student write his name, I asked him “have you thought about your name – how it sounds before?” He laughed as he had never thought about it. What Japanese native speakers hear is very different from what non-native…