Family Life

Question A When do children usually leave home?
I think it depens on their situations. Generally speaking in Japan, 18-year-old people tend to leave home basically. Because many high school students go their each ways after their graduation. Some people go to school from their house. but other people go out their hometown and live in different places which they have never been to. Also, the same could to be said of people who take work as new employees. I think 18 years old to be one turning point. (New school, New daily life and New situation)


Question B How many people live in your home?
There are five people in my family. My father, mother two younger sisters and two lovely dogs.


Question C Do you have a head of the family?
Yes, I do. My father wears the pants in my family. He has a power of decision in our family basically.


Question D Who dose the housework?
I think many mothers do housework wholly. Also, there is an old practice in Japan. "Doing housework is women's duty." It is very strong custom from ancient days. But the custom changed so that the world changed. These days many men tend to do housework. Women in Japan may need the man who can do housework so I think that that kind of women increase from now on.


Question E Who runs the family?
Ithink that both mother and father. Because two power is stronger than one power. I think supporting each other is the best way to live happy.


Question F How many rooms do you have to sleep in?
We have each rooms to sleep in except my father. He slept with his wife in their bedroom before. But now he moved to living room. I don't know why he sleeps in there. Perhaps there are big TV and his own computer.

Class#4 Islam

Class #4 Islam

Did her speech change your views of Islam?
I enjyoed her speech very much. The idea to my Islam changed after I had heard her speech. The idea to my Islam is not good because there is an image of terrorism and the war when I hear of Islam. However, my idea changed hearing her story this time. I felt that Islam was very delicate and sacred. Moreover, I thought that Islam is very wonderful religion with the history. It is a little that we think about Islam in usual life. So I was glad to hear such a wonderful story today.

Question 1: How do you greet people in your life?
We always bow each other when we meet, and If we greet the person of the first meeting, we say 'How do you do?'or 'Nice to meet you'' inevitably. we rarely kiss or hug like Americans when we meet. We Japanese do not originally have such a custom. Japanese shows deference to the other party by bowing.

Question 2: Do you touch people when you talk to them?
I think It's depends on the person. But Basically, I think that when we talk to close person, (friends, family and his girlfriend or her boyfriend) we often touch them. because we can mutually obtain the sense of intimacy by doing so. Also we can feel each other to be close. I think that touching people is know each other.

Class #3 Buddhism
Question 1. How is your daily life affected by buddhism? What do you do and why do you do it?

There are many events about buddhism in Japan. For example, ohakamairi. It is one of the old traditional events in Japan. All Japanese visit their graves to respect their ancestors in obon or higan. In addition, we always eat toshikoshi-soba on December 31th every year. It is very auspicious food. Because the noddle is very long. We wish to live long from now on like the noddle of soba. That is why we eat soba. Toshikoshi-soba is a symbol of long life in our country.
Finally, I introduced some Japanese traditional cusutom about Buddhism. I dont know about Buddhism so much, I think that some Japanese don't interested in buddhism at all. But in this time, I found that the buddhism is affected in various ways in our daily life.

Question 2: The next class will be about Islam. Check the newspapers for the next 2 weeks and find articles about Islam. How are they talked about? Do you feel negative or positive about Islam because of these articles?

03/14 from Izza

Boarding has been refused by the Islam invocation. Religious discrimination and the U.S. Co. bringing a case
As for considering the prayer of Islam, and "Suspicious activity" the refusal of boarding to the airplane, it was assumed that it undertook religious discrimination, and Arab-American person's six leaders of Islam caused the appeal to request compensation for damages etc. from U.S. airline US air WAIS in a federal district court in Minnesota state on the 13th. Boarding was refused though abnormality was not found by the security inspection, and it was restrained to the police temporarily according to the petition though six people planned starting after it attended the conference on the leader of North America Islam held in this state Minneapolis on one's way back from the airport on this ground with the US air WAIS machine last November. It is insisted that boarding be refused to the petition because it was informed, "Suspicious activity" other passengers that four of six had lifted up the prayer of Islam in front of the boarding gate. The US air WAIS : according to Reuter. ｢Judgment after the entire behavior of them is seen. The agreement of a local judicial authorities is obtained. ｣It objects.

I think that we should learn the religion and the custom of a different more country. Also people in other countries need to know them. because it is a matter of course for us, but for other people not so. I think if we have knowledge, such a fight can be avoided. Actually, it is difficult to learn religion of other countries without knowing the religion of the home country. But if we receive others with wider view and sympathy,we will be able to narrow each other's distance than now.

Article http://www.iza.ne.jp/news/newsarticle/world/worldnews/43292/