Between AKIHABARA, OTAKU and MAID CAFES

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AKIHABARA

Akihabara. Is one of the famous names who located around Akihabara Station, soto-Kanda area in the district of Chiyoda city, Tokyo, Japan. Akihabara is a shopping center or sometimes called Akihabara Electronics Center. Some people call it by Akiba.

If you want to look for electronics items, such as computers, cameras, etc.. Visit to Akihabara is the right choice. In addition, Akihabara is the center of the anime, and manga. For the otaku, Akihabara is the perfect place to satisfy their hobby. They always say that Akihabara is the otaku paradise.

OTAKU

image source : "akihabara@deep" serial movie

If talking about Akihabara, perhaps closely related to otaku. So, What is Otaku? Otaku is basically a term from Japan to refer for people who really pursue hobbies. But since the 1990s, the term otaku becoming known outside of Japan to mention a huge fan of Japanese subcultures such as anime and manga. There are even some people who call themselves as otaku.

Maybe now, otaku known to refer for someone who really likes anime, manga, games, etc.. can be said to be maniacs.

Negativity of the otaku is sometimes they do not want to come in contact with the outside world, did not want to have a partner and prefer to spend single life with his favorite anime characters. Even I (the author) had seen anyone who is married to his favorite anime character, he is not attracted to human women, but he fell in love with two-dimensional female character who always he carried everywhere for a date.

There are several films in the Japanese drama series which tells about the Otaku, that is "Densha Otoko" and "Akihabara @ Deep"

MAID CAFE

Still in Akihabara...

Besides otaku, there are other interesting things contained in this anime lovers paradise. We could call it a "Maid Cafe".

Maid Cafe is a cafe regular, but the waiter from the cafe is very different from the other cafes in the world. The waiters were women aged 16 to 28 years who wear lolita fashion costume, or dressed and behaved exactly like a character from the anime.

The servants of the maid cafe always call consumers with the title "goshuujin-sama" which means lord, master. At the time the customer enters into the cafe, the waiter would say "Okaerinasai, goshuujin-sama!", Which means "Welcome home, my lord!", As if the maid was waiting for his master came home.

History of Kanji

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Kanji is letters that come from China. At first, the ancient Chinese people draw things that exist around them. The images are then made ​​as simple as possible and drawn in the form of boxes to ease them in writing. Then came the kanji 山 (Yama, the mountain), 川 (Kawa, rivers), 田 (ta, rice field), 人 (hito, human), and others.

Because it originated from simplifying an image, each character of Kanji has a specific meaning. This also means that almost all the objects that exist in this world (especially words that are included in the Chinese language and Japanese) can be written in kanji. Thus it can be assumed to be the number of kanji is almost equal to the number of objects in the world.

Kanji comes into Japanese around the fourth century. At that time China was under the power of Kan Dynasty. Thus the letter in the form of drawings called "Kanji", which means "letters from Kan country". 

Although Japanese Kanji adapted from China, but not all the kanji in Japanese are same with Chinese kanji. This is because there are several kanji that have the simplification of forms. In addition, the number of kanji in Japan is not as much in China. In 1900 began the argument for limiting the number of kanji that so much. Finally in 1981 set list of kanji that contains the 1945 kanji used in everyday life.

See Someone's Character

Know Someone's Character By The Name Of The Day They Are Born.

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Born from the beliefs of Chinese, some Japanese people know the belief that a person's character will be described through the provision of day someone is born. names of days are written with kanji that describe the elements of nature.

日 = Nichi  = Sun (Sunday)
月 = Getsu = Moon (Monday)
火 = Ka      = Fire (Tuesday)
水 = Sui     = Water (Wednesday)
木 = Moku = Wood (Thursday)
金 = Kin    = Copper/Gold (Friday)
土 = Do     = Ground (Saturday)



Conclusions obtained about the character of a person born on the day.

Sunday, character like the sun, always emitting light. provide information to everyone, can form ideas, motivation, pioneered an idea and others. But the sun will lose its rays on cloudy or night time comes. It means that this character shows, when once failures come then he will quickly give up and looking for another idea so they'll do something else, whereas previous work has not been completed.

Monday, character like the moon, earthy, like the beauty and uniqueness, calm, able to refract light when darkness comes. But on the other hand, they are moody, harbored something without transparency, quick sad, sensitive, and many considerations.

Tuesday, character such as a fire, passionate, optimistic, strong-willed, decisive in the rules and strong discipline, tactical strategy. On the other hand, they tend to be arrogant and difficult to accept other people's opinions openly.

Wednesday, character such as water, calm, able to follow the rhythm of life, flexible, recognized by many friends, well-respected opponent, broad-minded. But on the other hand, they do not focus on something, sometimes less sensitive and easy to get caught up in something.

Thursday character such as wood, as a protector, pedestal every person, dignified, charismatic, wise. On the other hand, they are happy at the praise, easily agitated, less firm in the establishment, and less confident.

Friday character such as copper or gold, like beauty, irregularity and tidiness, creative and innovative, productive work in solitude, thinkers and idealists. On the other hand, they are shy and reclusive, sensitive, easily offended but did not open.

saturday character such as land, become the foundation of every person, tactical action, rational-minded, not easily give up, be mature in every action. However, they lack respect for other people's opinions, sometimes act without thinking and easily influenced.

So the story goes, but all characters will be controlled as we get a person's knowledge and experience.

Greetings And Apologies In Japan

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As in other languages​​, Japanese has several greetings and apologies, among them:

O hayou Gozaimasu (good morning)
Konnichiwa (good afternoon)
Konbanwa (good evening)
Oyasuminasai (good night)
Sayounara (goodbye)

Gomennasai (apology when you've made ​​a mistake whether intentional or not).

Sumimasen (apologies usually make mistakes when disturbing or accidentally)

Shitsurei Shimasu (apologies if something works it is considered rude to others.

There is a unique, Japanese people sometimes will say sumimasen if we suddenly gave him assistance services, indicated that he felt uncomfortable because makes us hard. Or if they asked for help from someone they will say Onegai shimasu which could mean 'sorry, I have made a fuss because you have been called upon by me'. Onegai shimasu meaning itself is actually an expression for the request.

Japan Country

About Japan Country

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Japan country has more than 6.800 islands. Most of those islands are very small, only 340 islands have more than 1 km2. Four main islands including 96 percents of this country: Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu. The entire of Japan's wide is 378.000 km2.

A matter of fact, 68 percents of japan is mountain range. Fuji Mountain / Fuji-san (height 3.776 m) is the highest mountain and the most popular in Japan. The Japan's spread from north to south precisely length. With the result that, the weather is very different for each place. The weather changes in step with season. There are four seasons in Japan: Spring (haru; begins March - May), Summer (Natsu; begins June - August), Fall (Aki; begins Ceptember - November), and Winter (Fuyu; begins December - February).

Since 1868, Tokyo has been to be a capital city. Perhaps, Tokyo is a biggest metropolitan region and at the most resident in the world. And also clean, peaceful and international traction to do the business.