Japanese Culture

What college degree is the Japanese Language Proficiency Test level n1 certificate is equivalent to today? I am thinking of getting that proficient at Japanese, but I am just starting out at Japanese.

It doesn’t have a degree equivalent. Passing the N1 is not like earning a degree in college in anyway, it just marks that you have reached a native-level of Japanese in reading and listening skills. Passing the N1 doesn’t really increase your chances of being hired by anyone, the JLPT is better for showing the test taker their current strengths and abilities, not showing employees.

Is it a domestic touristic destination, for example? It is interesting because it is far from other areas of Japan

About 5,000,000 people visit Okinawa every year.
Okinawa is one of most popular tourist destination, especially for swimming and diving.
A lot of people visit there repeatedly. Usually they want to live there.

I have been learning some Japanese, but I will probably sound like I’m trying to make of them if I speak it.

I know that instead of extending your hand for shake, you just bow, deeper and longer than your senior.

What else do I need to know?

WOW!

So much you need to know, but after living here for over four years already I have come to understand it all.

Yes, taking off your shoes is right, but also wearing different provided slippers for the toilet for example!

Don’t cross your hashi (chopsticks)
Don’t be loud and annoying like many gaijins I see.
Learn some Japanese words for etiquette
You can shake hand, most J people like to as it is different for them.
Bowing is mainly for formal situations
Don’t spit
Don’t eat on the trains
Have your phone on vibrate or silent on the trains and DO NOT talk on your phone on a train

There is more, but I have a lesson to prepare!

If you have any questions you can mail me and I will answer you.

It’s a great place to live, but does take some getting used to!

I am looking for a futon (hopefully no to expensive) and would like a traditional japanese one, cotton and foldable. I would love some websites or any locations in Santa Barbara, San Francisco, or LA area, so if you are from any of these and know of a place and could give me a name and address/or number that would be wonderful!

Artesia & Western
1759 W. Artesia Blvd.

Gardena, CA 90248

I have obtained a Japanese permanent resident card. Do I need a visa to travel to China?

Probably. Your residency does not matter. It’s your nationality that decides the issue.

I have to do an assignment for Japanese and we have to find 3 foods from Japan and explain where they originate from. I chose Okayu but I can’t find where it comes from, maybe you could just tell me where it’s mainly eaten?

?? (okayu) — is a Japanese form of congee served to invalids and is often an infants first food. Congee, the food, was prevalent in China as early as the pre-Qin period (221 – 207 B.C.) and may have originated there. The congee recipes used in India show Chinese influence. The origin of the food is somewhat confused as the word "congee" itself is believed to have originated with the Dravdian people of India.