Reflective Journals #ThirdWeek

Liana Riani Ramli

Reflective Journal

February 17th, 2017

Hi, everyone. Meet me again on my blog. Maybe this will be my weekly routine, thanking you all. Thank you very much for reading my blog. I'm sorry if there is still a mistake on my posts. I try to improve myself everyday.

This week theme, I've promised to myself, I used something I like to make those daily journals. I love Japanese culture, so I wrote bout Japan this whole week. But I only get 5 topics each week and I couldn't write something like opinion, so I didn't really enjoy writing this week journals. Especially the last daily journal I wrote. It's about anime. I really love anime, since I was a kid I've already sit down in front a screen and watch anime. But I couldn't write my thought about it, so I felt so sad I could only write about the fact. I actually wanted to add some other sentences, but it was already too much and this blog assignment is only let me write an exactly one paragraph, I ended up only write a little about anime.

I had some other topics I want to share about Japan, but I couldn't. There are too many ideas I want to write if it's about Japan. I will write about it a little here. One of them is about NEET. Every country has good sides and a bad sides too. Japan is a developed country, but there are still unemployed people in some areas in Japan. Some of them are youngster purposely let themselves jobless. NEET, Not Employment, Education, or Training. In Japan, usually the jobless people who decided to become NEETs only spend their time playing games or watching anime. It's really useless to waste your time, shut yourself in your room. I don't understand why people can do it. I really wanted to share about this topic, but I wanted to write about cheerful articles, not gloomy one. Maybe I'll write it next time.

It's About Anime

Liana Riani Ramli

Daily Journal 

February 17th, 2017

What is the first impression when they hear word "Anime"? Some of them would say it's a animation,  a few people probably asked what kind of food anime is, and mostly Indonesian people would say, "I know it, anime is Naruto, isn't it?" Anime is animation, Japanese pronounce animation as animeshon, than shortened to anime. Anime is not only from Japan actually, but many people make a difference between animation from Japan and non-Japan. In fact, the first anime was made in 1917, but the characteristic of anime had been developed in 1960 and began to be known in the world wide in 1980. Anime has many audiences from all over the world. Due to of the creativity of making animation is unlimited, and Japanese always has unimaginable, anime has so many kinds of genres, like action, comedy, romance, school life, tragedy, sport, and many other genres. Some anime is adapted from the legend and true story. People should pay attention the genres of the anime before watch it. Just like films, anime has it own rate for the age. Some anime are made for children and teenager, and some need parental guidance, and the others for adult only. That's why you must be selective when you are going to watch anime, just to make sure you won't be sorry for knowing anime. 

Source :

http://sukajepang.com/macam-macam-budaya-jepang/

Little Snacks from Japan, Dagashi

Liana Riani Ramli

Daily Journal

February 16th, 2017

Every child likes snacks, starts from candies, chips, cookies, and etc. Japanese children also love those sweets. Dagashi, Japanese cheap snack food, means futile or negligible snacks. Due to the low price and fun packaging, those candies around 5 and 10 yen attract children with small allowances. Most dagashi are packaged in bright, childish wrapping and sometimes come with a small toy or prize. The toy are often small figurines, and a common prize is will allow the holder to claim a second free snack. A store which specially sell dagashi called dagashiya, but now convenience stores sell dagashi as well. Umaibo, the most popular dagashi in Japan, is an over-sized corn puff with a lot of different flavor. Unlike the other snacks. Umaibo flavoring isn't just throwing powder in the mix, but using other method, so Umaibo have different texture each flavor. Even they say Umaibo is "King of Dadashi". Are soft drinks also Dagashi? Yes! One of them is Ramune, a lemon-lime soda. The word Ramune is Japanese re-worked of the word "Lemonade". The bottle of Ramune is quite unique. The cod-ned bottles are sealed with a marble that is pushed down into the neck to open. The glass bottle is now considered a symbol of summer and is regularly sold at summer festivals. If you want to know more about Dagashi, but too lazy to search about them in internet, you can watch the anime "Dagashi Kashi". This anime takes dagasi as the main topic, so it fills with a lot of little trivia also some unknown fact about tasty things called dagashi.

Source :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagashi

http://blog.honeyfeed.fm/top-10-snacks-in-dagashi-kashi/

The World of Geisha

Liana Riani Ramli
Daily Journal
February 15th, 2017

Geisha are traditional Japanese female entertainers who act as hostesses and whose skills include performing various arts such classical music, dance, games and conversation. The word "Geisha" itself means artist. They have been part of Japanese culture for 400 years. In the beginning, some of Geisha were ex-prostitute, but many of them were not. In 1680, they were popular paid entertainers in the private homes of upper-class samurai. Even though many of them had turned to prostitution, by 18th century geisha were strictly forbidden to sell sex in order to protect the business of the Oiran (women of pleasure). After World War II, due to Japan lost the war, women had to go to factories or other places to work for Japan. The geisha world, including the teahouses, bars and geisha houses, was forced to closed. After a year later, they were allowed to reopen the Okiya (geisha house). The few women who returned to the geisha areas decided to reject Western influence, kept their traditional ways of entertainment and life until now. Beautiful women with thick white make-up with red lipstick and black and red accents around the eyes and eyebrows, entertain people with their talent inside the traditional kimono. They are geisha.



Source :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geisha

Unique Table Manners on Japan

Liana Riani Ramli
Daily Journal
February 14th, 2017

Every country has different habits. The way they talk, how they treat others, their fashion style, and even how they eat are different from others. No exception for Japan, Japanese people have their own manner too, especially on table manner. There are many rules must be followed when you eat traditionally in Japan. First, you should sit down on small thin pillow on the tatami mat. Your position should in formal way, folding your legs under your thigh, your bottom on your feet. This posture is called "Seiza". Before you eat, you should say "Itadakimasu" and "Gochisosama" after finish your food. Saying those words in order to appreciate how delicious is the food you eat. Slurping you food and making noises sometimes make people irritated, but that different in Japan. The cooker will be happy because slurping your food showing the food is tasty. The noisier your slurps, the tastier the food is. Those unique manners can be found in Japan only. So, prepare yourself before you go to Japan.



Source :
http://kursusmasakjepang.blogspot.co.id/2014/04/tata-cara-makan-gaya-jepang.html

Hanami, Watching the Cherry Blossom

Liana Riani Ramli

Daily Journal

February 13th, 2017

Japan has a lot of beautiful nature, one of them is cherry trees. Cherry trees have unique characteristic, the flowers will bloom first before the leafs grow. The cherry blossom can be seen only in the spring. In Japanese, they usually call it sakura (桜). Generally, sakura starts blooming when the weather is warmer. Okinawa is the earliest place to see the cherry blossom, and then Kagoshima, Fukuoka, Kyoto, Tokyo and the last is Hokkaido. Sakura only last about seven until ten days, so it's really unfortunate to miss this chance. Japanese too, they're often enjoying the cherry blossom with their families, friends, or with their co-workers. They usually rest under the trees while eating their Bento (homemade food) and chatting with each other even singing together. Sometimes they stay until late at night to keep the beauty of sakura on their mind. Hanami, watching the cherry blossom.

Source :

https://matcha-jp.com/id/1663

https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_blossom

http://www.panorama-tours.com/blog/5-festival-musim-semi-terpopuler-di-jepang.html