Sachiko

Wow!! I am happy Japan is the third 'The world's flags given letter grades'.  Their comments are funny. Check it out.

Dog Prays at Japanese Zen Temple. Ha ha ha, cute dog.  He didn't have any training.  The dog learned it naturally by watching him.

The Japan Productivity Center for Socio-Economic Development releases 'This year's new recruit type' every year. It means JPC-SED makes up a pattern for new recruits to describe their disposition. Last year, it was 'Day trader type'. Because of an economic upturn, many companies took a bumper crop of college graduates, but graduates hunted jobs on their minor pluses and minuses, and short-term trading ( changing job) is expected. They have their own network via the Internet but they should have discreetness without being swayed by information. In 2006, it was 'Blog type', He looks friendly, polite, obedient. But suddenly he may make statements on the Internet via his blog diary. He may have delicate sensitivity and a community network on the Internet, but he might talk on the blog only. This year's new face type is 'Curling'.  If you stopped brushing, it will speed down or stop soon. You really need to take care always...orz

This is an interesting article. 'Name game: Elizabeth, James top British success poll'. If we had the same poll, what would be the top? But I guess the most unlucky female name would be 'Sachiko 幸子'. I guess people have such a negative image for Sachiko and actually we have such a song Sachiko where is an unhappy girl. But you know the meaning of Sachiko is 'a happy child'. The most well known Japanese female name will be Yoko. The meaning of Yoko depends on which Kanji is used for the name. Ono Yoko 洋子 is a child of ocean, 陽子 is a child of Sun, 葉子 is a child of green. There are more and more different meanings for Yoko. Since even the same sounding names have differences in Japan, I read Japan has a much larger numbers of names than other countries. So it is very hard to have some common image for names (Sachiko is a rare case). Actually I have no idea about a lucky or unlucky guy's name.

Comments

[Chris Kuan]

Heidi,

When I was in Japan during the Winter Olympics, the TV showed mostly ice-skating and curling! Obviously the interest is there as well :-)

[Heidi]

Wow - the LAST place on Earth I would expect to hear a "curling" analogy is Japan! ^-^; Curling is a very nuck thing...I will make a prediction that for 2009, the new recruit type will be trolling...;) If Mari-san gets that one right, I will be very impressed!

[Ricardo]

My friend's father name is Hideyoshi 秀吉, he said it meant very good luck... but I doubt I would name a child that ^^;

He mentioned Kichirou 吉郎 is a good luck name too.

[Raijin]

My mother's name is Sachiko. So this explains a lot! *^_^*

[Taki]

Taki is a very unlucky name. :(

[M. Nestor]

Sachiko is the unlucky female name from Ai Yazawa's Nana series too, right?