Japanese Valentine's day and White day February 14th is Valentine’s Day in Japan. Japanese women give men chocolates to show your love. (NOT from men to women like other countries). Some give chocolates with their real love but others give them as a business, or as an obligation. We call it “GIRI Choco” in Japanese. The White day takes place on March 14th in Japan. It is a special day to give gifts back to women in return of Valentine’s Day. But the Japanese have some negative image partially. Because they are supposed to give it back on that day with obligation for “GIRI Choco”. Godiva Japan thinks White day should be more positive day for all Japanese people. They should give it to women to show your love and thankfulness whether they get chocolate from women on Valentine's day or not. So, their campaign message is “GODIVA NEW WHITE DAY”.

Image of OK I feel OK is the image of circle. Everyone in the world recognize that circle, ⚪︎ is positive, correct image as you know contrasting with negative image of X. Circle itself expresses correct, safe, right, agree acceptable, satisfactory, nice. Here is the commercial which tell the situation using the ok. http://youtu.be/zqKovGMx9xo

What is your reaction?

When i talked with my friends, i used "really?!"a lot.
Is there any other expression of surprise with positive or negative image?

Let me see.
I should have said like...
Wow
Great
Discussing
Sucks
Too bad

Ouchi

Is that true?！

 

 

IMAGINE REAL DAILY LIFE In this italki site, I don't understand the difference between “Start a new discussion” page and “ask a question” one. It seems almost same pages. Let me imagine the discussion in our real life. It occurs at conference room. Several people argue about something excitedly on real time. So I think in this site, “Start a new discussion” page should be at least “live chat” and several people should participate at the same time. I believe you can see the truth of things (in this case, on discussion) when you imagine on your real daily life, But if you don’t, you can’t notice the something different.

Dose anybody get tired of clicking "like" on Facebook? I am asking people except the Japanese. In Japan some people have been tired of clicking "like" to their friends on Facebook. Because there are so much article everyday from so much friends and some articles are totally their own business or their own daily life, for example, eating something, going somewhere,,.whatever.

UCHI-AWASE／打ち合わせ In Japanese, “UCHI-AWASE” means conference or meeting. But I realize its meaning is deeper than conference or meeting. When you see its character literally, it says 打ち=UCHI=hit or shoot / 合わせ=AWASE=merge. I notice this means “to shoot the ideas each other at the meeting then you can merge bigger idea”. You should bring your ideas at the meeting, otherwise you can’t argue without them and you just listen to the others’ ideas. So I always prepare ideas before participating meeting.

INTERVIEW I believe that “Interview” means not just to meet someone and talk or ask something but also watch his or her inner mind. That’s why it called “INTER VIEW”. I believe it is important to have an attitude of "interview" when you meet someone in any situation as you can find his or her background. For example, suddenly you meet cool guy and you would fall in love but if you have interview mind, you can figure out that he could be a gigolo or a swindle. You can judge him or her with realistic and rational way.

"MEET" "Meet" means see each other. It also means to satisfy each other. I realized it has very important meaning for me. For example, if you want me to introduce somebody who owned his company because you want to job from him or her, I can't introduce you to him or her unless you have the something skillful for the owner. If you introduce someone to somebody, you should think of the benefit of the both of them. Not just for one but also for the other. What you call “win-win”.

ZAZEN Japanese ZAZEN, which means meditation, is not to be empty your mind, but feel the visual images of world things. The tips of feel them are not to use language, but just to use your visuals in your brain. First of all, if you meditate with your language, you lost the speed of thinking. People can imagine the several visuals pallalelly at the same time, on the other hand, language isn’t. Say, A is B, B is C, C is D….. It is more like linear thinking. Secondly, with watching several visual images at the same time, you can notice the truth of things easily. The point of feelings is to realize under the unconsciousness. In Japanese, “Ichinen Sanzen” means only one feeling with visual images makes you perceive 3,000 things.