Comments by "Harry \x22Nic\x22 Nicholas" (@HarryNicNicholas) on "Asagi's Life (No BS Japan)"
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i had been avoiding marriage and children, i worked in tv in the west end of london and was having a great time. then i met a japanese girl who is 13 years younger than me and i got fed up of hearing her complain about visas and the home office, and she was an excelent person - and still is - so we got married and started a family.
what went wrong was that my work means i could work for a six months, and then have six months spending all my money until i needed to work again, and, when we had moved three times, the last time she had to take on the full amount of the mortgage, i was in my late 50's - that's when the cultures clashed, i lost her respect as head of the house and eventually (20 years of marriage later) we split.
we have a son, so we are still in touch and get along pretty well, but the age difference, although good for me to begin with, is probably worth avoiding if you can. my ex was a brilliant wife and mother and her family were the tops, i love japan and the japanese people. it hasn't been a conscious effort, but all my girlfriends have been a year to ten years younger than me - i am young at heart as they say :)
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zoastranism was the first recorded religion, god was invented about 50,000 years ago. personally shinto is my favourite religion, apart from the men in dresses. my ex wife (japanese) says to pronounce japanese correctly you have to speak like a robot, toy - yo - ta, lol. if i ask her the meaning of a symbol i get different definition every day for two weeks. i love japan and the japanese, many happy memories.
my jaoanese family were very welcoming, i actually felt more at home with them than with my own family. me, me brother in law and father in law would sit in the kitchen smoking and drinking beer, but unable to really chat, which is a shame considering everywhere you look in japan there is english, i think although it's natural, the japanification of words is confusing - you have absorbed english but changed the spelling and pronunciation, most japanese would have a lot of english if it wasn't made into pigeon-japanese.
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