Japan
Japanophile~
Japan
Japanophile~
A study of Japanese businesspeople found that they are typically comfortable with eight-second pauses between one comment and another, roughly twice as long as Americans generally tolerate. They’re wise to take that pause.
Makiko looked old. Everyone looks older as the years go by, but that’s not what I mean. She wasn’t even forty, but if she told you “I just turned fifty-three,” you’d wish her happy birthday. She didn’t look older. She literally looked old.
Children do not become what their parents want them to become.
The therapist helps patients realize that it is possible to coexist with anxiety instead of avoiding it.
Nowadays, when telling old fables, it almost seems as though the old fairy tales have been defanged; it’s almost as if Momotarō the Peach Boy goes to Onigashima Island to destroy the demons, and as soon as he lands the demons surrender. What do you think of this trend? MIYAZAKI: Right after the end of World War II, the old children’s fairy
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