@kaihat.su
Type designer, videomaker, scholar in Osaka. Indigenous Studies (Ainu focus) grad student. 在阪タイプデザイナー、動画制作者と学者。 アイヌを中心に先住民学の大学院生。 English／日本語／Español／العربية Aynu'itak ponno k=eraman. Videos: kaih.at/youtube Writing: afkary.ae Views = my own. 内容は私個人の見解。
What I meant is that in the UK when you buy you usually transfer the sum to your lawyer who then passes it on to the lawyer of the opposite party.
The realtors I’ve spoken to said that in Japan usually once the deal is sealed you transfer directly to the seller.
But yeah there’s always an agency
I think part of it is living in the centre of Osaka and things being competitive, but maybe it’s a cultural thing as well idk.
For me it just a big no-no to not inspect a place in person to make sure there aren’t any problems or things I’m unhappy with
I’ve looked at a couple empty houses but yeah primarily renting. In the UK you can usually get permission from the current tenant and have a quick look around, but that just seems not to happen at all here.
Even crazier is people here seem to close on apartments without seeing them in person!!
LMAO I had no idea he was based on Japanese realtors, that makes a lot of sense haha
One realtor I briefly registered with was sending me so many emails every day that Gmail started marking them as spam. No unsubscribe button. When a polite email request to stop was ignored, I ended up writing a strongly worded one with a threat to report them for harassment before they stopped.
This is my own personal experience so people might have different ones of their own.
Also realtors in Japan are like 100x more obnoxious and obsequious than British estate agents in my experience. Maybe due to a difference in housing demand? Many places I looked at last year are still on the market.
Observations about real estate in Japan compared to the UK.
1. Viewing property that still has a tenant inside seems to be non-existent
2. No middlemen if buying (buyer→seller rather than via lawyers)
3. Realtors can't/won't give info about a building's residents (if they're owners or renters)
"It did become a trigger for Ainu, who had remained silent until then, to start taking action… But the way it was done was childish, and I can’t forgive the fact that they acted in the name of the Ainu. In the end, I wonder if it was all meaningless".
- Ainu poet Tozuka Miwako
A photograph of Japanese activist Ota Ryu.
Anyway the so-called "Ainu Revolution Theory" basically died with Ota (pictured) and doesn't have a following now. Almost all Ainu never agreed with it, though the incidents in the 70s has left parts of Japan's nationalist/right-wing elements paranoid about any left-wing involvement in Ainu affairs.
Believing Japan was "inherently evil", the EAAJAF wanted to have South Korea invade, Ainu declare independence as a Soviet Republic, have Ryukyuans declare independence, then kill all Japanese. The group disbanded when most got arrested.
Ota Ryu went on to become an antisemitic conspiracy theorist.
Yuki was arrested with Waijn allies in 1972 over vandalism of a statue of famous Ainu leader Shakushain who revolted against Wajin control (where Hokkaido Governor's name was scratched off), but was released without charge. Aside from this there's no evidence of Ainu involvement in any incidents.
Ainu activist Yuki Shoji (pictured) associated with Ota but soon split from him, and alongside other Wajin and Ainu criticised Ota's theory for being "inconsistent with Ainu beliefs and circumstances" and for appropriating Ainu-led movements into something violent. Ota responded but became isolated.
The 1976 bombings were by "East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front" who advocated destruction of Japan and all Japanese (via genocide). Activist Ota Ryu formed "Ainu Revolution Theory", believing Ainu were key to revolution based on his (incorrect) belief that they "lived in a primitive communist system".
This is something you don't hear much about in English but in the 70s there were several terrorist incidents in Hokkaido by radical New-Left Wajin (non-Ainu Japanese) activists "on behalf" of Ainu.
Ainu denounced them as many were mistakenly incarcerated and harassed by police as a result.
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I can't write with my left but I do tend to default to holding a lot of things with my left that other people do with their right - like cups for example.
I don't really consider myself ambidextrous and over time I feel like my right hand has been slowly winning out more and more.
This is pretty benign but I am naturally left handed but forced myself to change when I was young as I didn’t like the colour of the left-handed scissors at school (they were blue and the righties had red)
I can’t write with my left now but I still do lots of things with my left instead of right.
A poster advertising the 20th anniversary tour of OKI DUB AINU BAND with performances for the following dates, listed as "Tour Schedule Volume 1" (implying further performances later in the year): 5/9 Himeji 5/10 Okayama 5/12 Kyoto 5/13 Nagoya 5/15 Kofu 5/16 Shibuya, Tokyo
Oki Dub Ainu Band is running a 20th Anniversary Tour throughout Japan during May this year and are performing at the following locations:
5/9 Himeji
5/10 Okayama
5/12 Kyoto
5/13 Nagoya
5/15 Kofu
5/16 Shibuya, Tokyo
(Me being unable to read the Hangul name but trying to read the Hanja/kanji next to it)
Taboo Line / 禁線
“It’s called… kinsen?”
A photo of a projected image of a Geumjul at the National Folk Museum of Korea. It is a rope hung across a gate outside, with paper streamers, bits of pine branches, and peppers tied into it.
A close up photo of a torii gate at a Japanese shrine, showing the shimenawa tome strung across it. The rope features tied paper and straw streamers hanging out of it. Another torii with shimenawa is visible in the background, along with the man shrine building.
When I visited the National Folk Museum of Korea, I came across a Geumjul, a “taboo line” placed across a gate to inform the house of a birth and to prevent bad spirits and impure people from entering.
Very reminiscent of Japanese Shimenawa which are placed on torii gates.
Ultranationalist group Nippon Kaigi is running this exhibition again the whole day of Monday March 16.
Groups such as CRAC as well as experts, academics, Sapporo residents and Ainu have expressed their frustration at the city government for continuing to issue permits for such displays in public.
Unlike Kitami City, Sappro has yet to implement any public ordinances against hate or discrimination which would work to prevent these kinds of displays from being put up in public walkways.
The planned display, like last year's, will be erected near to a store selling Ainu-made crafts.
Current Japanese prime minister Sanae Takaichi is a member of Nippon Kaigi (so are former PMs Shigeru Ishiba,Taro Aso, and Yoshihide Suga - as well as Shinzo Abe when he was alive).
Ultranationalist group Nippon Kaigi is running this exhibition again the whole day of Monday March 16.
Groups such as CRAC as well as experts, academics, Sapporo residents and Ainu have expressed their frustration at the city government for continuing to issue permits for such displays in public.
Kitami City has begun efforts to enact a proposed “Human Rights Ordinance”, aiming to create a city where people can live without fear of discrimination, abuse, harassment or other human rights violations. It would be the first ordinance in Hokkaido to comprehensively cover human rights issues.
A portrait of famous Japanese graphci designer Nagai Kazumasa.
Nagai Kazumasa, famed Japanese graphic designer and printmaker has died of acute respiratory failure at the age of 96. It was reported that he passed on February 23rd.
He is best known for creating the JR logo, the Asahi Beer logo, and the logo for the 1972 Sapporo Winter Olympics, among others.
A grid of eight Japanese graphic design works displayed on a light gray background, each with a caption beneath it. Top row, left to right: A 1965 Asahi Steiny beer advertisement featuring a dense pattern of red-and-white bottle caps viewed from above, with a single brown beer bottle standing upright near the bottom. The official mark for the 1972 Sapporo Winter Olympics, showing a red sun above a gray snowflake emblem and the Olympic rings, with “SAPPORO ’72” below. A 1976 poster titled “Adonis,” depicting a vivid blue ocean and sky partially obscured by bold red geometric lines forming a stepped, angular frame. The 1986 Asahi Breweries logo in blue, featuring a stylized, flowing “Asahi” wordmark. Bottom row, left to right: A 1988 piece titled “JAPAN (Turtle),” showing a stylized turtle composed of intricate traditional Japanese patterns in gold, black, and green, with “JAPAN” in bold letters at the bottom. A 1999 piece titled “LIFE (Egg),” featuring a highly detailed, monochrome egg centered on a white background with a small bird illustration near the lower left. The 2005 Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group logo, consisting of two overlapping red circular shapes forming a symmetrical emblem above the gray letters “MUFG.” A 2016 piece titled “LIFE (Giraffe),” showing a white giraffe silhouette with black spots on a dark brown background, stylized in a minimal, graphic manner.
Hailing from Osaka, after dropping out of Tokyo University of the Arts he joined textile maker Daiwabo Co., where he worked in graphic design before later establishing Nippon Design Center Inc., a company dedicated to advancing Japanese advertising design.
Below is a small sample of his work.
A portrait of famous Japanese graphci designer Nagai Kazumasa.
Nagai Kazumasa, famed Japanese graphic designer and printmaker has died of acute respiratory failure at the age of 96. It was reported that he passed on February 23rd.
He is best known for creating the JR logo, the Asahi Beer logo, and the logo for the 1972 Sapporo Winter Olympics, among others.
Obviously this is an issue that's close to home for me and it's been taking up a lot of my time - more than I thought - so I might be a little less active until a path forward clears.
In the meantime for anyone in the region who's affected, feel free to get in touch and I can try to help how I can.
I've received a lot of messages asking about me and my family. I'm in Japan, and they're safe - they're not in the UAE currently, but I appreciate all of the people who have been in touch with their concerns, I appreciate it.
As far as I know all my friends over there are also safe.
Yea there was a 20 minute long video inside the lecture which talked about good driving and how to avoid accidents, what to do in an accident etc