Lizzie asks…
admin answers:
Maybe on youtube but in different parts sorry
Charles asks…
Would a Chinese-Australian face any racism in Japan?
I’m Chinese, born and raised in Australia.
My school is arranging a study tour in Japan around about September next year, and I was wondering if people will notice us (in a bad way)…
Most of my school is Chinese, and everyone who is going on the tour is Chinese.
I know this question’s probably been asked many times before, but most of them only apply to obvious foreigners, people who actually LOOK caucasian/black, but since we look asian, are locals going to look down on us once they find out we’re Chinese? We speak Japanese, yes, but is there still racism? I’ve heard different accounts from different (Chinese) people D:
admin answers:
Born an raised in Australia, so technically speaking you’re more Australian then you are Chinese.
I am an American of Asian decent who lives in Japan. My experiences maybe a little different from those of my friends and colleagues who are white, in that I “look” the part, I don’t stand out. But I never had any problems in racism, nor have my white/black counterparts either.
Japanese have problems with the (country) China, to be exact The People’s Republic of China (communist china) , though generally there isn’t much problems with people of Chinese decent who happen to be Canadian, Australian, American etc. Nor is there any major problems with Taiwan or Taiwanese (who some might say are “Chinese” too, but that is neither here or there).
It’s not to say there is no racism, but there is no country on earth where there is no racism. There’s racism in Japan, there’s racism in China, there’s racism in America, Australia, New Zealand, you name it.
For the most part, I think going on a study abroad your experiences will for the vast part be a positive experience, and people will not view you as “Chinese” (eg you are FROM Communist China) but as Australian. Not saying if people view you as Chinese as bad, because I know a few Chinese (real Chinese FROM China) who live in Japan without much issues either.
Protests are more in line against the Government of China (People’s Republic of China) then it is against persons from there. But you’re from Australia anyway, so it doesn’t concern you much.
Again I think as a student your experiences will be for the vast majority a positive experience.
Susan asks…
I have a Japanese Assignment i need help Translating (due 20th april)?
ok our assignment is to kinda do a tour on wateva places we want but it has to be in jap, and we are not allowed to use translators, so we type it in romaji and at school we change it to hiragan and katakana, but i need a few questions answered plz help (no translators, and must be in romaji)
1. what is this is Japanese Romaji:
What is our transport?
2. if we say “we are going from australia to japan” what would the structure of the sentence be, like um oousuturaria….. help!
3. what are these words in Japanese Romaji:
-Airplan
-Train
-Bus
4. we have to have places to stay (hotel!>w<) how do i say this in Japanese Romaji?:
Where do we stay?
5. can someone get me the kanji for these places:
tokyo
osaka
kyoto
instead of making these seperate im getting even more lazy and putten em together (sorry >o<)
what is this is japanese romaji?:
-What will we be doing?
-more infomation
okay thats it, soz for all the questions, and i need this before my holidays end!!! (end on the 20th april)
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Ken asks…
(Mostly for Green Day fans), where can i find this stuff!?
In some countries, bonus versions of the album were released.
The most common version[citation needed] can be found in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. It features “Too Much Too Soon”, one of the album’s B-sides, at the end of the album.
In the Japanese version,[3] there are 14 tracks, the last track is “Favorite Son”, another B-side to the album. Another Japanese version includes a bonus CD, recorded live in Makuhari Messe on March 19, 2005. The Enhanced CD contains live footage and behind-the-scenes featurette from the Japan tour.
In the French version, [4] there are 16 tracks, featuring three of the album’s B-sides: “Too Much Too Soon”, “Governator” and “Shoplifter”. The French version combines “Holiday” and “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” into one track and does the same with “Are We the Waiting” and “St. Jimmy”, “Give Me Novacaine” and “She’s a Rebel”, and “Extraordinary Girl” and “Letterbomb”.
A limited edition version of the album was released, which was packaged to look like a book. While this version contains no extra tracks, The booklet is extended to contain artwork and journal entries made by “Saint Jimmy,” which further outline the story.
okay so i really want to find at least one of these, preferably the Saint Jimmy journal and the French Version.
i’ve tried ebay…no luck.
are there any “underground” places i can try to find it? *ugh* im gonna kill somebody if i dont find it at some point…!
admin answers:
I actually don’t have the American Idiot album (a friend lended it to me), so I don’t know the difference. I don’t know how the booklet looks like, but when I looked on amazon.com’s pictures for the AI booklet, I think I saw the St. Jimmy entries you were talking about. I’m not sure if that’s from the orginal booklet or the special edition one though 
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Http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-images/B0002OERI0/ref=cm_ciu_pdp_images_all#gallery
“Too Much Too Soon” is on the “American Idiot” single. “Favorite Son is on “Rock Against Bush v.2″, and I think Governator and Shoplifter are (seperately) on the singles for “WMUWSE” and “BOBD”. I think Limewire also has them. And as for the combined versions of Holiday/BOBD and etc… There isn’t much of a difference, the seperate versions are better.
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