Daito Bunka Social Media 2024

   Please watch this video about funny and unusual apartment names used in Japan. Do you live in a place with a strange name? Please write your thought about this video, as well as general strange use of fake English in Japan in 50 words or more.

     Getting sick!   Yes, it is that time of year! People start getting cold and flu! Please search online in English for sites and blogs that give helpful advice and tips for how to keep healthy in the fall and wintertime (no videos)     Than write in 50 words or more your opinion about the links you found. Please include website links. Please do not talk about corona, just general health. My example: Oh no! cold and flu season is almost here! But do not worry, I have some secrets that can help you. I am going to eat lots of vegetables, because they fight off illness. I will also get lots of  Vitamin D, from being out in the sunshine, and from pills, this helps keep you awake and your mind clear. I will also wash my hands a lot to kill germs and avoid spreading them. How did I learn all this? From a great site online! There are many more secrets I found there and you can read them  right  here!

 Prices keep going up! The economy is really going crazy. I don't want to say its "bad" but things are more expensive than before! The news was that on October 1st 3,000+ items increased in price!  Its not like this is the first time! Prices have increased constatly since 2021!  Prices do change all the time, but its so slow we do not usully notice it. This change is actually very shocking. The post office is raising rates for the first time since 1994! That is 30 years without a change! When I came to Japan 20 years ago, people told me one great thing about Japan is that there was no inflation. If you look at movies and TV shows from the 1980s, the prices of things  are    were the same as they were are today in 2013. I think the trouble started 10 years ago, when the sales tax increased from 5% to 8%. You might be too young to remember but the prices of many things were "one coin." Small things like snacks were 100 yen, larger things like bentos were 500 ye