tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25713648.post6793292835853842644..comments2024-01-14T17:29:57.602+09:00Comments on Life in Rural Japan: New YearAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03671659320538901131noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25713648.post-77892677722944423412011-01-07T18:38:50.501+09:002011-01-07T18:38:50.501+09:00Funny how it takes 11 years when we are older. I b...Funny how it takes 11 years when we are older. I bet the kids already know all that stuff. But then you surely knew it at least a few years ago. I will have to read the archives.<br /><br />Congrats on making it eleven years as a (foreign) woman in the countryside of Japan! <br /><br />Here, all the men get together and have a party at the local meeting hall, get drunk and leave so the women can Kevinhttp://www.bastish.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25713648.post-1767185113862448322011-01-07T11:31:39.539+09:002011-01-07T11:31:39.539+09:00Yeah, but after 11 years can you stomach nattō?! :...Yeah, but after 11 years can you stomach nattō?! :-)Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25713648.post-47449796420314184842011-01-07T09:50:32.511+09:002011-01-07T09:50:32.511+09:00I love that your family has such a traditional New...I love that your family has such a traditional New Years! That is honestly, so cool. And homemade mochi, omg! Looks so good! With my husbands family all the way in Osaka. And since he works for an American company so he doesn't get off Japanese holidays. We are most always certainly here in Chiba for New Years. So our New Years are so untraditional. But we enjoy them though. : ) <br /><br />Ginahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02427544303742999100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25713648.post-48242511810106019412011-01-06T23:03:20.106+09:002011-01-06T23:03:20.106+09:00Wow. I bet that was difficult to get your head rou...Wow. I bet that was difficult to get your head round when you first arrived in Japan.<br />SueLiving the frugal life in Francehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15620598210939499286noreply@blogger.com