tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714063.post4326985424587334621..comments2023-10-09T00:45:55.603+09:00Comments on Shisaku: Entre La France Et Le JaponMTChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04626942240117432624noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714063.post-289774482537107302013-07-20T22:17:41.994+09:002013-07-20T22:17:41.994+09:00Funny. I accept our Shinjuku Station experience, ...Funny. I accept our Shinjuku Station experience, but I always found it intuitive, if huge and otherwise daunting. I am a visual thinker, not to say that you are not. For some reason; however, the much smaller Kita-Senju Station I cannot wrap my head around: mainly the connections between Chiyoda/Joban and Hibiya/Tobu platforms.Ἀντισθένηςhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06199983680204710885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714063.post-39350226700308547932013-07-20T15:40:00.543+09:002013-07-20T15:40:00.543+09:00Took me about 3 months to figure out how to naviga...Took me about 3 months to figure out how to navigate around Shinjuku Station with ease.<br /><br />Try this book. It's got some pretty cool 3D cross-sections of these modern-day "dungeons" and some expert tips on how to efficiently navigate through them.<br /><br />http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E9%A6%96%E9%83%BD%E6%9D%B1%E4%BA%AC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9F%E3%83%8A%E3%83%AB%E9%A7%85%E6%96%AD%E9%9D%A2%E9%80%8F%E8%A6%96%E5%9B%B3-%EF%BC%88%E6%A0%AA%EF%BC%89%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%82%AA/dp/4569794491Kinny Riddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14381745237663421712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714063.post-49793388365032508102013-07-20T08:49:45.095+09:002013-07-20T08:49:45.095+09:00I would not and could not rely on French media sou...I would not and could not rely on French media sources for "reading Japan" except for Philippe Pons, long time correspondant of Le Monde. The rest are appalling rewriters of news agencies or happilly just landed for a few days journalists in weird Japan. The coverage of the French president in Japan recently was a journalistic shame.<br /><br /> Barthes was one of my key entry point to Japan more than 35 years ago. "Japon Expo" is the contemporary phenomenal main gateway to "Japan" heavily marketised as a weird and wondrous product in a very French way. <br /><br />As with everything, there are exceptions, but when it comes to Japanology, English sources rule. I could not seriously read Barthes today but as a canonical lens and peep into the French totemic way of seeing Japan, it still plays in the background. <br /><br />To me, not speaking and reading Japanese brings the value of any commentator of Japan to an anecdotal level. The fact is that short time visitors of the local zoo refering to Them, the Japanese, as some panda species, have always grabbed the limelight. Nowadays, "Japan as seen through my Westerner navel" is also a feature of somewhat long time resident unavoidable French authors fairly fluent in Japanese and orbiting around the French embassy in Tokyo. Marketing and vested interests are however strong factors here one cannot ignore. But as authors they can be ignored.<br /><br /> If not for Fukushima revealing the depth of involvement between France and Japan in matters of nuclear, one could be stuck, as many are, with chefs using yuzu in fashionable cakes, the Michelin guide of Tokyo and everything manga. Of course, I am summarising so much that it sounds like a caricature. It is more complicated than that and features many side walks and exits, but not as much as Shinjuku station for which I have developed my own mental map. Lionel Dersothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08968402690141949197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714063.post-80244111750005691352013-07-19T14:40:37.211+09:002013-07-19T14:40:37.211+09:00Unknown -
Mon Dieu! The map accompanying the arti...Unknown -<br /><br /><i>Mon Dieu!</i> The map accompanying the article places Shinjuku Station at Tokyo Station. <i>Quel bordel!</i> MTChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04626942240117432624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714063.post-64280001282062396152013-07-19T14:30:33.265+09:002013-07-19T14:30:33.265+09:00Unknown -
Thank you for the notice. Le Figaro ha...Unknown - <br /><br />Thank you for the notice. <i>Le Figaro</i> has indeed released the hold it had on full text...and too bad! The article does not fulfill the promise of the title, unless the reader is supposed to find punctuality, convenience and crowding "troublant."MTChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04626942240117432624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714063.post-86126263827689118572013-07-19T13:29:46.249+09:002013-07-19T13:29:46.249+09:00I could access the article in your link without pr...I could access the article in your link without problem or any pay-wall. Maybe it has been updated and you should try again.Luinilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03729508644269192730noreply@blogger.com