Childhood TV

Paulm said:
it was here in the 70's, but it was a Japanese series....maybe this will remind you of your time in japan...lol

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Yes it does Paul. But some few of the things that remind me most of my time in Japan can’t be posted in a video on the PNF. I was a teenager so you can guess about the behaviors.

Actually, have some really lovely memories of that time too. In fact, the scene in Karate Kid 2 where the characters attend the Obon Festival is one. In my last weeks there, I ran across that festival - a total random discovery in the night - and it was gorgeous...just as awesome as it looked in the movie.
 
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WitchAndShaman said:
Yes it does Paul. But some few of the things that remind me most of my time in Japan can’t be posted in a video on the PNF. I was a teenager so you can guess about the behaviors.

Actually, have some really lovely memories of that time too. In fact, the scene in Karate Kid 2 where the characters attend the Obon Festival is one. In my last weeks there, I ran across that festival - a total random discovery in the night - and it was gorgeous...just as awesome as it looked in the movie.
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Love the culture, did you ever feel like gaijin or was acceptance pretty good.
 
Paulm said:
Love the culture, did you ever feel like gaijin or was acceptance pretty good.
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I lived on the American occupied island of Okinawa during the first few years after it was returned back to Japanese control. The local Japanese nationals lived with a constant American presence for 27 years so by the time I got there I was just one of a long history of a million foreigners. But, the Japanese people never made me feel like I was not welcome. I found the local people to be, as a whole, very pleasant; and even being a teenage, I felt very safe being alone with them.
 
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WitchAndShaman said:
I lived on the American occupied island of Okinawa during the first few years after it was returned back to Japanese control. The local Japanese nationals lived with a constant American presence for 27 years so by the time I got there I was just one of a long history of a million foreigners. But, the Japanese people never made me feel like I was not welcome. I found the local people to be, as a whole, very pleasant; and even being a teenage, I felt very safe being alone with them.
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that's cool, I worked for a Japanese company in my 20's, always very polite ppl, sometimes at the point of forcefull politeness,(sure you know what I meen, lol)... did you become fluent in Japanese while you were there?, I learned enough to get by but have gotten extremely rusty over the past 30 years,...oh well as long as I remember "ichi nama biru kudasai" and "toile wa doku desu ka" I would be ok....lol
 
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Paulm said:
that's cool, I worked for a Japanese company in my 20's, always very polite ppl, sometimes at the point of forcefull politeness,(sure you know what I meen, lol)... did you become fluent in Japanese while you were there?, I learned enough to get by but have gotten extremely rusty over the past 30 years,...oh well as long as I remember "ichi nama biru kudasai" and "toile wa doku desu ka" I would be ok....lol
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No, my Japanese was no better than yours. I learned only enough to be polite and to navigate.
 
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And speaking of television & Japan. Does anyone remember Prince Planet?
 
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