Nate Oyama

American computer Magazine

My dad often travel overseas on bussiness. Three weeks ago he traveled to Philadelphia, the United States, and then I asked him to buy American computer magazines. Last week he sent me those things and some interesting ones.

PC Magazine and PC World are my favorite computer magazine. These magazines are very interesting unlike Japanese ones. Their article is written rationally with quantified data. On the other hand, Japanese computer magazines are written emotionally so they are funny rather than interesting.

You may say why don't they sale their magazines to Japanese readers, but I think it's very difficult. The computer generally grow rapid, so while they translate them to Japanese, their article is getting old and useless. Besides most Asian includes Japanese people are not good at thinking rationally or understanding quantified data like Western. I think that's why Japanese manga is very funny while American comics are boring.

My dad also sent me The Economist. Some people believe that it is the world's greatest magazine. But their English was too difficult for me, but I'll read it as much as possible for improve my knowledge and English ability.

Shiseido Tsubaki, Japanese Shampoo

In Japan, Unilever Lux "Super Rich" had been the best sold shampoo for six years. But in this spring Shiseido Tsubaki broke this recode. Their catch phrase is "Japanese women has beautiful hair."

Most American shampoo are suitable for Western people, not Asian. I think most pharmaceutical companies realized that they should distribute for each race of people; for example, for White, Black, and Yellow. However, if they distribute such racial shampoo, it must cause the human right issues. White, major race shampoo must be quite commonly sold, while Black and Yellow, minority shampoo are uncommon and expensive.

Yet, the difference between each race is very obvious and inevitable. Speaking generally, white people have wavy hairs, black people have frizzy hairs, and yellow people have straight and bold hairs.

Most foreigners surprised what a strange country Japan is. There are very few foreigners, plus, most of them are from Korea, China, and Taiwan, so as usually you cannot distinguish them from Japanese until you know their names.

Then why we use white people's shampoo? Two years ago, Kao, Japanese popular pharmaceutical company released shampoo for Asian people. It's name is "Asience," and their catch phrase is "The World envy Asian." Very few people criticize it. Indeed this product and phrase surprised me very much. If I release a thing with a phrase "The World envy American White," I will be criticized by many people. This might prove that most Japanese people has inferiority complexes for their race.

Anyhow I bought a hair washing set in a super market: Shiseido Tsubaki, it includes shampoo (550 ml, 18.6 oz.,) conditioner (550ml,) and treatment (120g, 4.2 oz.) It was about 1,500 JPY (13.64 USD.) A tsubaki is in Japanese, a camellia (ie Japanese rose,) and it smells funny like a spoiled orange! I believe day by day my hair is getting better and better.

Don't forget that minority people also love beautiful hair. I want black and glossy hairs like silk! I don't want to get bald, and that's why I shampoo very carefully and I never color my hair!

Learning English in Japan 1

In fact until I entered TUS, I really worried about their English classes. I know some people who is/was a student in TUS, but they hardly speak English. Speaking English ability is very important when you study something, including math, science, economics and sociology. As you know TUS is an abbreviation for "Tokyo University of Science," so all the students there major science. If you don't speak English, how do you study science? To read translated articles? It's a good idea as long as you are an ordinary student. However, if you want to become one of the greatest scientist or scholar in the world, how do you consider foreign articles? How do you report your research to foreign researchers? Some people believe you should read translated versions and contract with a translator. But I'm not sure. Most translated versions are old and selected too carefully. When translators thought it is not valuable to translate, even if it is valuable for you, you can't read it.

In Japan and Korea, there are very few people speak English well. Why such diligent people hardly speak English? Well, I'll talk about it later.