Thanks, but it’s too much. A ranking of annoying etiquettes

Source:Goo Ranking   

Do you follow some etiquettes pertaining to women, like opening a door for ladies? It can be sometimes annoying for Japanese ladies who are not familiar with it. We asked through internet polling about what the annoying rules of etiquette are.

The first place is, “Putting down a handkerchief on a puddle in order to protect a ladies’ cloths from dirt.” It’s like a story of a shojo manga(Japanese comic books for ladies). If you really did that, all Japanese ladies would escape from you. The second place is, “Blowing on ladies’ hot food to cool it down”  Your kind will think that ladies don’t want to get burned. However, if you try that to a Japanese lady’s hot food, you would also blow off her feelings toward you.

Rules of etiquette come from the United States and Europe. Not a small number of Japanese women may be happy when they experience it while traveling. However, since it's not well-established in Japan they get confused instead. But if you show   appropriate etiquettes to ladies, they will probably appreciate your actions. If you will examine the ranking, you might have second thoughts before you follow the etiquettes.

1.      Putting down a handkerchief on a puddle in order to protect ladies’ cloths from dirt

2.      Blowing on ladies’ hot food to cool it down

3.      Giving ladies a piggyback ride when she's tired of walking..

4.      Lifting up ladies to go over bumps.

5.      Doing ladies’ shoelace.

6.      Carrying ladies’ bag which has their important stuff.

7.      Putting down a handkerchief on a bench when ladies sit down.

8.      Holding ladies in your arms when they get injured.

9.      Ordering all sort of food in a restaurant.

10.  Watching ladies until they disappear from your sight at her leave.

11.  Drafting a chair when ladies sit down in a restaurant.

12.  Lending your jacket when it’s cold.

13.  Gibing ladies a hand when they go down stairs.

14.  Putting on a jacket on a lady

15.  Presenting to eat the food that ladies don't like, instead of them.

16.  Sharing food with ladies when we have big portions of the food.

17.  Locating an empty seat on a train and giving it to ladies.

18.  Opening a car’s door for ladies.

19.  Letting ladies go ahead at elevators or stairs.

The original Japanese site has the ranking until 30^th but I’m tired of translating. Japanese addresses these rules of etiquettes as “Lady First”. Some of the Japanese think that these are the manners how to deal with ladies and they come from the North America and Europe.

“Welcome back, Hachi.” Reunion of a pet dog after 11 days.

Source:Iwate Nippou

Hideko and Hachi celebrated the
reunion after getting over the
tsunami.

On the 22nd of March, a Shiba Inu who was taken care of by an animal hospital when it was still weak in Miyako city, Iware prefecture, was taken back to the owner. It was engulfed by a tsunami which happened on the 11th of March, but somehow it managed to survive. Then, after 11 days, the dog got reunited with its owner and the reunion brought so much happiness to the family's owner whose house was washed away.

The Shiba Inu, Hachi, is owned by Naoshi Iwata, a local official of Kuwagasakishimomachi, Miyako city.

Desperately, Hideko tried to pull Hachi and escaped, but they were swamped by the tsunami. Hideko managed to hold a nearby wire mesh and got out of trouble, but Hachi’s collar came off and he was swamped.

After that, Iwata’s family looked for Hachi, but they couldn’t find him. However, On the 22^nd, they knew that he was receiving care in an animal hospital and they brought him back.

Iwata said, “He often becomes ill recently. Therefore I almost gave him up.” “I’m relieved he was able to hang on.”

Hideko was the happiest among the family for this reunion. She lived in a new rented house through her relative but her sorrow grew when she was alone and she remembered him.

Hideko said, “It is the greatest happiness.” “Even if I lost all of my money because of the tsunami, Hachi would make me energetic.” She strongly held her pet dog.

One in four people are Dekichatta kekkon. Dekichatta kekkon’s ranking by prefecture in Japan.

Source:NicoNicoNews

One out of four people in Japan are in a Dekichatta kekkon (a marriage necessitated by an unplanned pregnancy). The data was gathered by prefecture. According to the statistics regarding birth released by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare in 2010, the national average on the percentage of Dekichatta kekkon is 25.3%.

When we look at the nationwide level, the figure is high in Tohoku and Kyusyu region but low in Kanto and Kinki region. The Dekichatta kekkon’s ranking by prefecture is shown below.

< Dekichatta kekkon’s ranking by prefecture >

1.  Okinawa-----38.2%

2.  Saga--------33.3%

3.  Aomori------32.4%

4.  Kumamoto---32.0%

5.  Fukushima---31.2%

6.  Nagasaki----30.5%

7.  Akita-------30.1%

8.  Miyazaki----29.6%

9.  Yamagata----29.2%

9.  Iwate-------29.2%

11. Ibaraki-----29.0%

12. Kochi-------28.2%

12. Fukuoka-----28.2%

15. Ooita-------28.1%

16. Miyagi------27.8%

17. Tottori-----27.4%

18. Shimane-----27.2%

18. Yamanashi---27.2%

20. Fukui-------26.9%

21. Gunma-------26.6%

22. Niigata-----26.5%

23. Ehime-------26.3%

24. Hokkaido----26.0%

24. Wakayama----26.0%

26. Ishikawa----25.8%

27. Tochigi-----25.6%

28. Tokushima---25.4%

28. Mie---------25.4%

31. Nagano------25.1%

32. Shizuoka----25.0%

33. Yamaguchi---24.6%

34. Osaka-------24.3%

35. Tokyo-------24.2%

36. Gifu--------24.1%

37. Saitama-----24.0%

38. Chiba-------23.9%

39. Hiroshima---23.5%

40. Toyama------23.4%

41. Kyoto-------23.1%

42. Nara--------23.0%

42. Kagawa------23.0%

44. Hyogo-------22.9%

45. Kanagawa----22.7%

46. Aichi-------22.2%

47. Shiga-------21.6%

Is it true that more than one third of Okinawan people are in aDekichatta kekkon? There is a 16% gap from Shiga, the lowest in rank.

We can think that this is ranked by prefectures that don’t care about public images. Does that mean that those prefectures’ environment, which are over 30% such as Okinawa, Saga, Aomori, Kumamoto, Fukushima and Nagasaki, are natural behavior,  little interruption from parents, and free love?

Well, we also can suppose that this is ranked by prefectures that are responsible because they get married after discovering the pregnancy. We can treat it's various interpretations.

What do you feel about this ranking that Tohoku and Kyusyu areas are high, but Kanto and Kinki areas are low?

Old lady’s pet dog saved her life.

Source:Yomiuri Online

Akanuma lives with her pet dog who 

saved her life in an evacuation area. 

Taken by Tetsuya Kikumasa.

There is a lady who was saved by her pet dog in Miyako City, Iwate Prefecture, which was damaged by the devastating earthquake and tsunami that happened on 11th of March.

Her pet dog seemed upset then jerked the lady to a higher place which led to an evacuation area for 30 minutes before the tsunami attacked. 

Her name is Tami Akanuma. She lived at about 200 meters away from the coast. She was hit by the earthquake when she was relaxing in the living room with her dog, Babu, a female Shih-tzu. When the fluorescent light turned off, Babu bustled running around and wagging her tail strongly with her nose whimpering.

The community wireless system went on a big tsunami alarm while AKanuma was attaching a leash to her dog, though, she thought it was not yet time to go walking for her dog.

When Akanuma opened the front door, Babu flew out and headed for a hill which is an opposite direction of their usual walking way.

When Akanuma slowed down, Babu turned around and gestured as if she was urging her to walk faster. When Akanuma caught up with Babu, she vigorously moved forward. As they repeated that, they climbed up to a steep slope without stopping until reaching the evacuation area which is 1 km away from their house.

When she looked back, the way she had been walking through was swallowed by the tsunami and her house was also washed away. She wondered that Babu might have felt the tsunami would come, in light of Babu's unusual behavior that Babu usually hated walking.

Babu is living with Akanuma and 60 other residents in a neighboring public hall. On 23rd, when Babu tuned 12 years old, Babu got her favorite pink cloth washed and looked happy.

Leave repairing bicycles to me. Osaka to Sendai.

Source: Nikkansports

"I can't stand doing nothing!" Norio Gotou, who owns the mobile bicycle repair shop "Shin Kitajima cycle" in Osaka City, spent 16 hours by car to travel Shichigo Elementary school, a designated evacuation area in Sendai City. He encouraged the victims of Tohoku earthquake and tsunami by repairing their bicycles and bikes, fixing flat tires and wheel chairs for free as soon as he got there.

"I couldn't help doing nothing." Gotou drove a car by himself all night. When he arrived at Shichigo elementary school where 1, 200 victims are living, he took out his repair tools and started to ask passing people after another.

"I came here to fix flat tires. If there is something wrong with your bicycle, bring it to me. “ “Osaka City is also cheering up for you guys."

Gotou got an emergency vehicle permit on the 18th from the local police for his car.

Then he left his house in 0saka at 10:30pm. He travelled north until he reached Niigata prefecture through Hokuriku highway all night then went through Yamagata prefecture. He finally reached in Sendai city on the 19th at 2:30pm. Goto said, “My family was worried about me but I thought I had to help while I watched the news about the disaster. I didn't sleep at all but I’m OK.”

He was concerned of running out of gas so he refilled 10 times when he passed by a service area along the highway. With only 2 rice balls to eat, he went on with his journey

After he reached the school which was designated as an evacuation area, he announced that he would repair bicycles. Then people came rushing with their flat tired bicycles for him to fix. He smiled and said, “Don't worry I would sleep in my car so I wouldn't  annoy anybody.”

Gotou's mobile bicycle repair shop in Osaka has been running for 30 years already. He was also a victim of the Great Hanshin Earthquake that happened in 1995 in Osaka. Fortunately, he didn't get heavy damage, but he regret that he didn’t know that there were victims who were had trouble with flat tires. Due to this incident, He said, “I promised I would definitely help the people when the same tragedy happened”

Vulgar Japanese comedian went to Iwaki city by himself to deliver supplies.

Source:nikkansports

Yutaka Ookawa, the president of Ookawa Kougyou, told that Egashira 2:50, a member of the same group and a Japanese comedian who is well-known for his rough, dirty and extreme behavior, went alone to Iwaki City, which was devastated by the earthquake and tsunami that happened on the 11th of March in Japan, not so far from the Fukushima nuclear power plants which scattered radiations, to deliver aid supplies.

According to the President ookawa, Egashira negotiated with some supermarkets right after the disaster, and paid for aid supplies such as water, food and batteries out of his own pocket. He also arranged a rental truck by himself as transport. He delivered aid supplies, too, when Chuestsu Earthquake happened in the year 2004. from this experience, he told Ookawa that, "There must be isolated evacuation areas somewhere by this earthquake."

Delivering supplies to those isolated areas in Fukushima was not easy in terms of the issues regarding the nuclear power plant accident and the traffic restrictions. Nevertheless, he volunteered to deliver aid supplies. The president Ookawa said, "He would deliver again to some devastated areas and it would be his personal decision, not our company's."

Compliment regarding Egashira 2:50

Egashira(江頭) 2:50

A 2005 Oricon and 2002 - 2008 Nikkei Entertainment! poll named him as the most annoying comedian in Japan because of his obscene and vulgar comedic style. His performance heavily relies on shock value, much like that of GG Allin, Dane Cook and the cast of Jackass.

Contrary to this image as an annoying, shocking performer, it has been remarked on shows like Mecha-Mecha Iketeru! that he is extremely polite and humble when the camera is not rolling. He is known for extremely good manners when dealing with TV staff, which may be part of why he is still on TV. Additionally, his frequent co-stars Yusuke Santamaria, Tsuyoshi Kusanagi and Ninety-Nine etc. are declared fans of Egashira.

Egashira 2:50 is featured in the Internet Meme "No U" image

-Quote from Wikipedia-

Donation in Taiwan for the victims of Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami.

Source:Tokyo Shinbun

The Red Cross in Taiwan and Taiwanese TV stations hold a charity event during the 18^th  to support the victims of Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami happened last 11^th of March. Celebrities who represented Taiwan, President Ma Ying-jeou, Hidetoshi Nakata a former national Japanese soccer team player, and a singer Judy Ongg who is originally from Taiwan were the ones who gathered it. The total amount of the donation was more than 2 billion yen.

While this event was broadcasted live, it received donations from the viewers. The song “Believe”, which supports the victims, was created in accordance with this event.  President Ma Ying-jeou implanted his word “Believe in love, hope, futures…” in the opening of this song.

Hidetoshi Nakata, a former national Japanese soccer team player, said, “I appreciate the efforts of this event, which sends the messages of hope and cooperation to Japanese people.”

A similar event also happened during the 17^th in Taiwan and it was able to collect a donation of 300 billion yen.


Here are the links to some part of the TV program.
「相信希望Fight & Smile」主題曲 Believe 相信愛(錄音室配唱畫面 完整版)

「相信希望Fight & Smile」中田英壽(帶來SMAP的感謝信) 義賣簽名球鞋