History geeks in Japan

[Jinx999]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-p ... 433280.stm

[robkelk]

Anything that gets pretty Japanese girls to wear kimono more often is a Good Thing, in my humble opinion...

More seriously, it's good for a culture to remember where it came from. (If a people loses their past, how can they know where to go in the future?) And
pop-culture history is just as good as any other sort of history, as long as it's accurate.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Wiregeek]

personally, I'm looking forward to the return of foot-binding.
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

[Bob Schroeck]

That's China.
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[Wiregeek]

*facepalm*
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

[Foxboy]

Heh. I also love how that site's video player delineates its volume... It goes up to Spin¨al Tap's "11"
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

[ECSNorway]

Wasn't there a sequence sort-of based on this in the Negima manga? The Kyoto arc....
--
Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.

[Black Aeronaut]

Okay, I think I know what I'm gonna do with my girlfriend when I take my summer leave. If I can talk her into it, anyways.