I put on a kimono, but the Japanese did not become.
I put on a kimono, but the Japanese did not become.
To VISIT Japan - all the same what to appear on the Moon. And
The mysterious people occupying this country, even after
Long dialogue with it all the same it is represented
inoplanetnym community. So different life we live and
Our Far East neighbours.
Nannies.
SURPRISE called much. For example, their intricate names.
The man called the Input in a valley, and the girl - the Happy pine. It
Was the bus driver, transporting our journalistic
Group of the airport in hotel, and it - simultaneously the guide,
"Stewardess" and the loader is dashing coping with luggage.
Japanese, as bees flying with our bags and suitcases, already
For the third day seemed something self-evident. Whether to us
To be surprised, got used to that Russians ukatyvajut asphalt
Also put rails? However it was absolutely unusual to observe
How the owner kiotskogo hotel with the beautiful name
"Eternally ringing hand bell" in the presence of the drilled
The personnel personally sinkers of a belonging of lodgers also gave out keys from
Numbers. As he then admitted: "I should watch that,
That to my clients at us it was good. If I sit in
Office I will feel nothing ".
Its hotel "in the Japanese style" - one of exotic
Pleasures for those who has got used to stop in hotels
With the European way. Number floor is covered tatami - wattled
Reed floor-mats, in the centre - the low table to sit for
For which it is possible or in a lap, or having extended feet under it. No
There and beds habitual for the European. Before a dream the parlourmaid in
The kimono displays wadded mattresses (futony) directly on mats,
And cleans them back in a case in the morning. The woman looks after you and
During a meal. In general the personnel of such hotels entirely consists
From elderly skilled women who carry out a role of nurses,
Watching that to lodgers it was comfortable. Kitchen here
Too the national. To one of evenings submitted sukijaki, a basis
Which is made by marble veal in cost of $5 for 100
Grammes. Accurately cut slices grown on beer
On your eyes "the Japanese nanny" fries the calf in the soya
Butter, then adds salad leaves, small gribochki,
Delivered from Korea, bean cottage cheese and a heap of other exotic
Vegetables. The dish prepares on your eyes within five minutes.
Their gratitude does not know borders.
HAVING appeared in Japan, prepare for infinite bows in
Shops, offices, hotels and other public places.
Bow not only at meetings-partings, but also in all
Other cases. If you go to this country not as the tourist, and
On affairs, be necessarily reserved by impressive quantity
Cut-aways. Any meeting comes to an end with their exchange. I remember, how
Puzzly local journalists, when I looked at me
Made a helpless gesture and said, that at me the visiting have come to an end
Cards.
To feel pleasant in this country the consumer. After all
The buyer for local employees of trade - the god. To it
Everything is allowed, up to barefaced rudeness. The seller in
The answer to your roughness only will bow and once again
Will thank for that have come. And if you have bought something,
Accept repeated "thanks". In reply to my purchase in
Children's department of central department store "Tokyo" of the saleswoman
Have made such grateful noise, that I even was frightened - not
Whether has made something unlawful. By the way, a thing bought
In Japan, it is possible to return easy in shop even a year later,
The main thing - to save the check.
Tip here to give it is not accepted, on what notify even
Every possible directories and guidebooks for tourists. Somehow
We have decided to break this tradition and with a view of distance experiment
Some yens from above. The waiter who has appeared to the Bangladesh
The student so was deeply moved that has named us even the
"Brothers", for some reason having mentioned that his brother lives in
Afghanistan.
Japan - one of few countries where gifts are legalised
To chiefs. There are special holidays, during time
Which subordinates "cajole" the chiefs even the such
Non-standard prezentami as boxes with beer and it is beautiful
The packed fresh fish.
Millionaires in oiled "trenikah".
TODAY the average Japanese receives from three to
Five thousand dollars. Such salary at working car factory
"Nissan", working on an assembly line for six hours per day.
At whom the monthly income more low, are considered as the poor. To this
Categories the majority of students concerns, for example. Pupils
The Tokyo university complained that in a month have
Only one thousand dollars (the parental help plus
Own podrabotka in the form of lessons on language). This money it
Hardly suffices for a life, to visit restaurants or to go by a taxi
They cannot. Approximately the pension of the Japanese twice is more
Pensioners. They already have possibility to travel for
Border. It is paradoxical, but the fact - air tickets on internal
Flights stand in Japan much more expensively, than, say, air flight
To Hawaii.
Dream of each Japanese - own apartment, superdream -
Country house. As the earth in Japan expensive, own
The real estate there are enough men of means. On a visit at one
From local rich men (the owner zavodika on processing
Seafood) we managed the city of Nemuro to visit.
Among a small group of the people displaying sea seaweed for
Drying, we have paid attention not at once on nothing differing
From the others the worker in bubbling in a lap "trenikah" and
To shabby vest. He worked together with all. Local
Korejko has told to us that personally dives under water for
Sea hedgehogs, them processes and sells. When it
Has invited us in the house (in appearance nothing remarkable
Small two-storeyed cottage in cost, by the way,
Half-million of dollars), we at all have understood at once, what is it
Private residence of the millionaire. The internal furniture of the house was not
Elaborate as in novorusskih fortresses, but spoke about
Solvency of the owner. One stuffed animal of a tiger brought from
China, some tens thousand dollars costed.
Samurajsky vigilance.
AT all external openness and benevolence on
To the relation to foreigners Japanese zealously protect secrets even
There, where they are not present. For example, our group have forbidden to remove
Expensive Tokyo department store "п п я я п п?я п ", external part of a wall
Imperial palace. And shooting of a lesson of culinary art,
Organised specially for our group, have allowed to make
Only partially. At factory "п п я я п п?" have amused with that
Have allowed to remove sites of an assembly line where are involved
Robots, but the workers twisting nuts in five metres therefrom,
To immortalise on a video film have forbidden.
Employees of consulate of Russia located in Sapporo,
Have told to us that for persons with "the European appearance"
Supervision is constantly conducted. Our diplomats ran time and again
On the "tails" following them even at a campaign in a supermarket.
Perhaps, thus Japanese try to be insured from
Larceny. Our diplomats have told funny history about that,
As one of the Russian seamen from a vessel "Prelate Nikolay"
Has robed a Buddhist temple, having pulled down therefrom the TV and a vase for
Colours.
"Give our islands".
The interrogation SPENT in last year among inhabitants of Japan
Has shown, that the liking to our country is tested only by 4 %
Japanese, 28 % "do not like" Russia. "Four Japanese islands
Kuril ridge which in forty fifth have departed under
Jurisdiction of the USSR, today are a stumbling-block in
The Japanese-Russian relations "- so members of movement confirm
For returning of notorious islands. A staff of this public
The organisations, located in the city of Nemuro, that on island
Hokkaido, conducts enough vigorous activity. Are spent
Even the special marathon runnings devoted to struggle for
"Northern territories". We has passed In friendly conditions
Journalistic meeting with the local vice-mayor. In memory of it to us
Have presented colourful booklets and hairpins for ties with an inscription:
"Give our islands!".
Besides everything, the city of Nemuro is remarkable the port, after all
Here within a year some thousand moor
Domestic fishing courts. Therefore the given occupied
The point abounds with Russian inscriptions and signboards. For example, we
Have found out commercial tent with an inscription: "Shop", and hardly
More low too in Russian: "the Blanket is, kolgoty is". One of
Pay phones crowned the announcement: "the cheapest in Japan
International phone ".
The touching meeting with fellow countrymen-seamen has occurred
In port Nemuro. The sad Russian validity
Has appeared in all beauty - rusty, prokopchennye vessels,
Fishermen in fragmentary stripped vests, the slow patter flavoured
materkom. Hardly we have uncovered video-and cameras, that
To embody Russian vessels in the Japanese port, as whence
Undertake the person and has come running, swinging a cellular telephone,
Has "particularly asked:" you that, want troubles? What for
Remove names of courts? Here such affairs are created... Yours
Corpses then will long search ". After such spicy outburst
We have cleaned chambers, and the person, having learnt, that we journalists, has softened
Also began to argue on the severe validity. That supposedly a life
Forces them, sahalintsev, to be engaged in such vile craft -
Poaching: to catch crabs and fish at the coast and
To sell on JAponshchine. "It is stolen and what to do? Here in it
Building, - it was pricked further sahalinets, - the black are spent "
Auctions "crabs, that is names of buyers are coded.
Because officially to trade in their separate kinds
It is forbidden ".
Vladimir SEMISIRS-DIGNITIES.
P. S. The author thanks embassy of Japan in Russia and
The Japanese-Russian centre of the youth exchanges which have organised
Trip.
//* an information Source: Arguments and the facts, 13.10.99
//* Reg. Nom. - 1091000175.19-------------------------------------------
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