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This entry was posted on Sunday, October 1st, 2006 at 11:59 pm and is filed under Japanese Culture Classes . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
26 Responses to “Japanese Culture Class #27 - Respect-for-the-Aged Day”
Sunday at 11:59 pm
Mina-san, we hope you’re having a great weekend wherever you are!
Monday at 1:46 am
雨が降ってです。
Monday at 1:49 am
「雨が降っています」と書きたいでした。
Monday at 2:01 am
「雨が降っています」と書きたかったです。
I’ll just go listen to the podcast shall I?
Monday at 2:07 am
Alan-san, こちらも雨です。Thanks for the update!
書きたいでした。ー>書きたかったです。Tai is actually an auxiliary adjective, and conjugated in the same fashion as i-adjectives.
宜しくお願いします。
Monday at 2:26 am
It’s raining here too
A culture class will cheer me up
Monday at 2:37 am
America has National Grandparents day (1978) which is similar. (First Sunday after labor day).
Usually Elementary schools invite grandparents to come to their grandchildren’s classes. Teachers typically will have some small activities to have the grandparents and grandchildren to do.
Monday at 3:12 am
Over here in the UK we also have an aging population, although the trend is not nearly as pronounced as that in Japan. People are also living longer, placing further pressure on the pension system. The government is gradually increasing the retirement age by a couple of years (over the next two decades roughly) to help compensate. However I think it’s much worse in Spain.
In 2005
21.0% of Japan’s population was over 65 in 2005
13.9% of Europes population was over 65 in 1995
(I’m guessing about 15% to 16% over 65 in 2005 for Europe)
In 2050
37.5% of Japan’s population will be over 65
27.6% of Europes population will be over 65
No wonder the Japanese government is trying to encourage people to start families. However, surely such a big gap can only be closed by allowing immigration, but this would entail some cultural sacrifice. It’s difficult to maintain a common world view across the entire population, as we are currently finding in the UK.
Europe Data
Japan Data
Monday at 5:09 am
i’d be willing for forgo my career and move to Japan to help out with the population problem
Monday at 5:30 am
雨,雨,雨…
Monday at 5:52 am
http://www.japanesepod101.com/2006/09/18/survival-phrases-39-visiting-a-temple/#comments
I’m also surprise with Alan’s data about Europe and Japan so here is North America data too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America
Monday at 7:19 am
With Japan probably having to accept immigration to cope with it’s aging population, the shortage is unlikely to be in the skilled workforce but the unskilled workforce. So the majority of immigrants will come from somewhere where a low paid job in Japan is seen as a step up.
Probably Chinese from the less affluent parts of China I’d guess rather than Europeans or Americans. Although determined people from there might take advantage of a more liberal immigration policy.
今日は、雷雨が降っていました。
Why is Takase-san’s name called out around 12:50 ???
Monday at 9:43 am
どこでも雨が降っているらしい
Monday at 11:31 am
I love this podcast. My only suggestion would be that it come before the holiday so that I could try it out on my Japanese Family. Thank you.
Monday at 12:15 pm
“Keirou no hi” used to fall on September 15, but several years ago, the government moved it to the third Monday of September. By moving it to Monday which is the next day of Sunday, the nation can have longer holidays. And that is called “Happy Monday” system.
But why JP101.com picked up this day which has already passed by as a topic now, Peter-san?
“体育の日(Taiiku no hi)” is coming soon; October 9, the second Monday of October.
“Mothers’ Day” and “Fathers’ Day” they were referring are not national holidays but “Children’s Day” is. I’m sorry for mothers and fathers
Anyway, thanks to Yoshi-san. You let me know what I didn’t know about “Keirou no hi”.
Monday at 5:29 pm
In France, we have a “grandma day” wich is the fourth of March for 2007.As for the japanese White Day, it was a brand’s idea (for France a coffee brand) . It is very recent : 1997, in fact the children offers a gift to their grandma, often some flowers. The granpas are forgotten!
Monday at 10:19 pm
Some notes for the Save Peter Campaign™:
“It’s a yuge issue”
And what was the “Meiji error”?
Yeah, what was up with the “Takase!” bit? Yoshiさん、have you been sabotoging editing again?
Tuesday at 1:49 am
Tech guy-san, Please double check the files of lesson notes and kanji closed-up.
Tuesday at 4:51 am
Yes, the link for the lesson notes and kanji are the same!
Tuesday at 5:23 am
Vicky-san / Sylvoe-san,
The link to the Kanji Close-Up PDF has been corrected. There is a mistake with Lesson # in the PDF but it will be corrected tomorrow.
Thanks for reporting this issue.
Eran
Tuesday at 7:20 pm
皆さん、初めまして。Karenです。
台湾(Taiwan)では敬老の日もありますよ。
It’s on 9/9 in lunar calendar(means 10/30 this year.).
I don’t quite remember if it’s national holiday before, anyway, it’s not now.
But we couldn’t just respect elders on that day, we should respct them all the time, aren’t we?
Tuesday at 10:38 pm
This is one of my favorite culture lessons to date. The comments by Sakura-san and Yoshi-san were terrific. Great job as always!
Tuesday at 11:17 pm
アメリカは普段若さを憧れていて、老人を捨てる社会です。悲しいなあ。若者は若いから、何もわかるはずがないのに。私、若さが悪いと言っている訳じゃありません。ただ、「なんでアメリカはそんなに若さを大切にしている?なんで老人を大切にしていない?」と悩んでいます。確かに、若さは目に美しいです。ですが、老人にも美しさがあります。目で見にくいかもしれないが、きっとあります。私は目だけで見る人がかわいそうだと思います。
つまり、しっかりして老人を尊敬しろ、アメリカの若者共め!Lizさんみたいに経験があるからな。
Tuesday at 11:21 pm
Very interesting conversation.
Was also interesting and funny — laughed out loud a few times.
j-POD0101 Team please keep up the great work!!
Gambatte kudasai! Yoroshiku onegai shimasu.
Wednesday at 11:50 pm
とてもおもしろかった
ありがとうございます
Sunday at 9:22 am
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