we use eyes to talk to you

I wrote about the article Americans and Japanese Read Faces Differently"". The report said Japanese talk with their eyes?! I read another article that said the same thing. Japanese faces mark talk in the eyes. This is original and this is web translation. Hmm, interesting. Western people say Japanese are emotionless masks, but please check our eyes more, we say some things clearly withour eyes. :-)

I wrote this post about our National Anthem. On Youtube, there is some funny National Anthem version, I was impressed this most the Kimigayo in English, you can know the meaning of the song easily by this. In Japan, this was good topic on the Internet as a "New National Anthem". Dragon Quest has really nice music.

Talking about Game topic, Check the The Last Remnant Trailer, hmm looks like "Load of the Ring"

Comments

[Mari]

I don't like face mark, I hardly use it mail and blog.

[Heidi]

When I was in Japan (only for two weeks) in 2005, I made a point to learn good Japanese manners before my trip. I learned that making direct eye contact was impolite in Japan. I tried to avoid eye contact unless I was speaking directly with someone (asking for directions or buying something) and tried to indirectly watch others' faces -if someone was looking at my face first, then I would look at theirs ~ especially with men! I also made a point to bow frequently, speak very softly and not use hand gestures while speaking.

I did see other foreigners (mostly Aussi and German guys in their 20's) who did make very direct eye contact, laughed when people would bow, spoke very loudly (lots of cussing and swearing) and used many gestures, and it really offended me! To me, they were extremely disrespectful of Japanese culture and downright rude and obnoxious - and they didn't care one bit! (baka gaijin)

I live in a very low key culture and we also don't like direct eye contact, loud voices or lots of gestures, so Japanese manners/culture did not seem so "foreign" to me.

But the differences in emoticons is interesting ne! I wonder why in America we use :) for a happy face and in Japan (^-^) is used?

[Marco]

I really love Japanese かおもじ and I think they are more nice than the USA one.