Osaka continued
Last week I ventured back to Osaka! The cities are great for visiting but I do prefer living in the country. Anyway It was six days of shopping and partying. I prefer Osaka to Tokyo, It has a different energy about it. According to my host mother Osaka people are supposably the fastest walking in the world. I think I believe her, I found Cenral "shin-osaka" station almost danderous. Multiple occasions where I nearly got whiped out. Osaka is the most complicated place to get around you wonder how anyone could adapt. Sorry but I didn't take enough photos while I was in Osaka and im so annoyed about that, so many interesting people and things. Im going back in December so I will remember for then. Here is a photo I took from inside a ferriswheel, shows some of the neverending city of Osaka.
A bit of a rant:
One night Noz and I were on our way to a friends place and we passed an area full of benches where people were lying. What you would think of as a city park. Lots of people one on each bench, and I thought wow whats this. They all looked decently dressed, but walking past them all they were really dirty. I asked Noz, and as I suspected they were homeless. People unable to keep up with the well oiled machine which is Japanese society. School, Uni, Company, family work consume.
Another thing I see alot is young families. Japanese get married reaally young, and I see families with two kids and the parents could have been no older than 25. I ask Japanese friends why, well they have nothing better to do, the male has graduated uni, is now in a respectable company, ok whats next, right family. Everything is prepared here, It would be so easy to float through life in Japan if you were prepared to just shutup and blend in. School primary schools junior high, traditions, uniforms, sports days, clubs its all the same. It reminds me of the book Brave New World. Things to be admired about the Japanese is their strive for perfection, they get things done and dont bullshit around with individual egos and opinions, they are team players. I suppose they need order like this though because there are so many people.
Those homeless people Noz and I saw might have been pushed out of the game, unable to re-enter the speeding society. I see the same thing in Gotsu, the young group of guys that don't go to school anymore. With their bleached hair and their big boots you see them zooming around Gotsu on their scooters. At the trainstation they sit there and go ok what should we do today. They came to our schools Culture festival, but were ignored. These are the guys that are being left behind.
A bit of a rant:
One night Noz and I were on our way to a friends place and we passed an area full of benches where people were lying. What you would think of as a city park. Lots of people one on each bench, and I thought wow whats this. They all looked decently dressed, but walking past them all they were really dirty. I asked Noz, and as I suspected they were homeless. People unable to keep up with the well oiled machine which is Japanese society. School, Uni, Company, family work consume.
Another thing I see alot is young families. Japanese get married reaally young, and I see families with two kids and the parents could have been no older than 25. I ask Japanese friends why, well they have nothing better to do, the male has graduated uni, is now in a respectable company, ok whats next, right family. Everything is prepared here, It would be so easy to float through life in Japan if you were prepared to just shutup and blend in. School primary schools junior high, traditions, uniforms, sports days, clubs its all the same. It reminds me of the book Brave New World. Things to be admired about the Japanese is their strive for perfection, they get things done and dont bullshit around with individual egos and opinions, they are team players. I suppose they need order like this though because there are so many people.
Those homeless people Noz and I saw might have been pushed out of the game, unable to re-enter the speeding society. I see the same thing in Gotsu, the young group of guys that don't go to school anymore. With their bleached hair and their big boots you see them zooming around Gotsu on their scooters. At the trainstation they sit there and go ok what should we do today. They came to our schools Culture festival, but were ignored. These are the guys that are being left behind.
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