So just like that in Japan, even though it's all "red"
there are many names for it.
That's not a big deal, why do Japanese
- get green and blue mixed up? - Huh?
Well, they call green traffic lights, blue lights (aoi shingou) here!
Yeah! And even green veggies, they call them blue (aona). It's strange!
In China, even though some things are green, they call it blue too right?
- No! - Well...
Bok choy has the character for blue. Even though it's green.
- I see. - But why is green blue then? It's confusing!
I figured that question would come up.
Here! Look at this.
"Gunjou iro", "seiji iro", "ao kuchiba", "ao takeiro", "sei tai".
They all used "blue" back in the day.
But the one in the middle is definitely green, no doubt about it.
I can only see black in that last one.
Right. In other words, back in the day, "blue"
was used for all these different colors.
Then when did the character for green come?
Actually, the character for green didn't originally represent a color!
If it wasn't, then what?
Originally, the character for green
represented the budding youth of plants.
So that's why for example, glossy hair is
called "greenish black hair" and
a newborn baby is
called a "green child".
I see. So then the character represents youth.
That's right! The snack bar mama Midori I know always says... ("midori" means green)
I'll be 20 forever...
- Just like that. - Well, I don't know about that
but why do you know people in the nightlife business?
Haruko! When Japanese draw
pictures of the sun, why do they use red?
In hanafuda too, the crane card even has a red sun. Why is the sun red?
Huh? Why? Isn't the sun red?
When the sun is setting, I usually think of it as yellow.
- In China it's yellow and white. - The sun is gold! Golden.
- Huh, so maybe a red sun is the minority. - Haruko! They say it's red in Russia too!
- Arctic nights in northern Europe have bright red suns! - We don't have those nights in Japan though.
- Haruko, what's a pink movie? - Pink movie?
- What's that? - What kind of movie?
Well... it's a kind of pink colored movie.
- What's that? - What is pink about it?
Hmm... pink equals indecent, okay?
- Ah! An erotic movie! - Shh! You're too loud.
They call it a "blue film" in America.
So, blue is erotic.
In China it's yellow. There's a movie called "The Happy Yellow Handkerchief".
- It's quite good. - What are you thinking about?
- In Spain it's green. - Not the color of nature, but eroticism!
Speaking of which, when handsome men come to visit the snack bar mama...
- That's what she does. - Okay! Let's go meet her!
- We're not going! Be quiet and sit down! - Hello!
If you have any questions about men and women, just ask me.
Why are you acting so cool? And why are you so late?
I couldn't leave my honey behind.
- Wait! - Hey!
- Don't hey me. - He started a new job last week
since then I think he got a Japanese girlfriend.
That has nothing to do with you being late! And what's with these clothes?
- Haruko, you're that fascinated by me? - Are you stupid?
You're falling in love with me?
Not at all. Come to the office later!
- Going to confess? - No!
Nihonjin no Shiranai Nihongo (The Japanese the Japanese Don't Know) Episode 7
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Ugh! There are mistaken guys all over this world.
- Excuse me. Shibuya-sensei. - Oh, what is it?
- I was wondering if you could tell me what color Japanese men like? - They like? Why?
I'd like to present my body (nikutai) as a gift for someone.
What!?
Your body (nikutai)?
You want to know what I like?
What are saying!? Necktie (nekutai)! Not body (nikutai), necktie!
- Ah, a necktie. - Oh come on! You should say that faster.
- A necktie! - Oh... I didn't mean faster like that.
Well, this is boring.
- Well, why don't you ask the person? - Yes, I will.
- Oh, it wasn't for me? - Why are you so disappointed?
Disappointed... I'm not!
There are a lot of mistaken guys out there.
Hello Haruko!
Hey! Sit down.
- Hey, were there any calls for me? - Calls?
There are. Some girl named Mari.
"I'm coming by today. Looking forward to a private lesson."
- What? - There are more. Mayumi. Erika. Maika.
Hey hey! The office is not a call center!
Why are they calling the school?
- I can't tell them my cell number. - Why?
My battery won't last! I'm too popular.
Oh, cute!
Don't you have a girlfriend? Why are you hanging out with other girls?
Momoko won't complain about stuff like that. She's a yamato nadekoshi. (Yamato nadeshiko - the ideal Japanese woman)
- Huh? - It's Nadeshiko. (Yamato nadeshiko - the ideal Japanese woman)
Then what's with all this fooling around?
I'm just making a few friends. Don't Japanese women do it too?
There's no way you're that popular!
- What's so attractive about you? - Haruko-sensei, that's rude!
- Okay Catherine, wanna bet? - Huh?
If he is really that popular,
- I'll give you sushi. - Well, that's...
We'll check up on you at work!
Catherine-sensei, please enjoy the sushi.
I am a lady killer after all.
- That mistaken guy! I'll put him in his place. - What about you?
- Getting all your students to graduate is at a yellow light. - Huh? What?
Seen plenty of women get too involved with
- students, making them quit. - Is that true?
You saw it right? That last festive one? It's the same pattern again!
- Haha! - Ow! Who was that?
- Haruko-sensei... - It's fine! There's no way he can be that popular.
- Hello Paul! - Good evening ladies. How's it going?
- I'm fine! - Great! The usual?
- Okay! - All right. So anyways...
Paul! You're too quick!
Please speak slowly Paul?
Paul-san is really hitting it off. He's so popular!
- That's not it at all. - Huh?
Oh, excuse me. What's that book?
Oh, we go to an English school upstairs.
Oh, so you're here to talk with Paul in English?
Yep! It's free English conversation.
I see.
- I see. That's the case. - That's the reality of it.
- Paul! Bye! - Okay! Bye bye. Have a good one.
Ah! There's a new girl!
Hey! Who's that girl?
- Maybe that's Paul's girlfriend? - What! No way.
They're in love. I'm jealous.
Damn it!
You didn't really need to...
You won fair and square.
But she was really that cute?
I don't get it at all! That girl!
But I can understand why she would be charmed by Paul.
It's just happening like Takasu-sensei said.
- If he's late again today... - Red light!
This keeps up and Paul will quit.
No! Not yet!
The fight is just beginning!
I guess he didn't come.
Jack, what's wrong?
- My shoulders have been stiff lately. - What?
Why is everyone surprised?
Stiff shoulders? Like a Japanese person.
You don't get stiff shoulders?
In America, we don't really have a concept of stiff shoulders.
I've been using compresses for the pain...
Well, I guess that's a pretty Japanese thing.
- That's "turning into a tatami". - What's that?
When foreigners turn more Japanese. In kanji it's...
- This. - Oh that word exists?
If you stay in Japan for a long time, you get used to the Japanese way of thinking.
Recently, when I go to the bookstore and they cover my books,
- I'm starting to think of it as normal. - It's not?
The latest thing taking Akiba by storm is this transparent cover.
Keeps it clean but you can see the cover. I can't do without it!
Oh, you get that...
I started to notice I nod and go "yeah, yeah" on the phone.
My husband asks what I'm nodding for.
Yeah yeah.
Oh, everyone did it.
Me too! My worries recently has been wanting to keep eating fried gyoza.
What's the worry there?
In China, gyoza is boiled.
But Japanese gyoza is so crispy and delicious.
And it's great with draft beer!
- Draft beer should be with edamame! - Turning into a tatami? It's more like turning into an old guy!
But, Japanese don't seem to like foreigners who don't act very foreign.
- Yeah yeah. - What do you mean?
When they smelled my compress at work,
they seemed a bit disappointed.
Hmm... turning into a tatami.
Yeah yeah.
We're not open yet. Why are you here now?
You haven't been coming to class, that's why!
Well, it's my dinner time now.
Huh? You can eat natto? Even though you're English?
I love it. I could have plenty of natto.
There's a way to eat like Rosanjin.
Mix till threads appear. Then put in 2, 3 drops of soy sauce.
Keep mixing. Wait till the threads start to stretch thin.
Keep doing it and then eat! A perfect way of eating.
- Turning into a tatami. - What?
You don't know cause you didn't come to class.
Why didn't you?
Well, cause of Momoko.
Come on, before you fall deep into love,
there are things you need to take care of! Why did you come to this country?
Well, at first I wanted to become a fisherman here.
Then what?
Ah, be quiet. You don't have a boyfriend, you wouldn't know.
- What!? - Anyway, time to go.
- What? - We're going to open. Bye bye.
Hmm?
Momoko?
I see...
Haruko you're mistaken. Momoko is a yamato nadekoshi.
It's nadeshiko.
But she was kissing someone on the street.
She's just in the middle of studying the West.
- You kiss as an introduction. - And then she went off in a taxi with him somewhere.
It's common to take a girl back home in the West too.
Just leave us alone.
What? But you're not going to school now!
I came to hand in my homework. See!
He's not mistaken, he's just an idiot.
What should we do?
Now we have to put our plan into action.
Plan?
What is this Haruko? And Catherine-sensei too?
Haruko-sensei made me come.
Look, Momoko is here now.
Get it? We'll see just how much
Momoko likes you.
- Why didn't you use "san"? - Just watch
- and see what happens! - What?
- I tried to stop her. - Hmm?
It's Bob.
- Why is he acting like that? - Shh, just watch!
- Here it is. - She's on the move.
It looks like your girlfriend is having fun.
Huh? Well, she just likes to communicate with a lot of people.
A lot of people? Well sure looks like that anyway.
- Then who's next? - Hmm?
- Now it's Luke-kun. - Why is he here?
- Very assertive! - It's common in the West to touch like that.
- Huh? Then who's next? - What?
Jack! Why is everyone here?
Everyone came here to help you out!
- They came to open your eyes. - What?
She doesn't like you, she likes foreigners.
She said she wasn't like that!
Get serious and wake up! Didn't you see all this?
But... nothing really happened.
Oh! Where are they going?
Is she taking him home?
- Huh? Paul! - Momoko!
Ah, Paul. Don't worry, let's go.
Why? I thought you were mine?
This man is amazing. Different from you.
Like, you make noise when eating soba.
And nod your head while on the phone.
You eat fish too perfectly too.
Isn't that a good thing?
I hate such Japanese things, especially from a foreigner!
And the worst of it all, you like natto!
And eating your natto like Rosanjin,
you eat natto like that, all thready?
Are you really a foreigner?
So then, when you went out with me. It was just because I was foreign?
Well, you were happy going out with
a yamato nadeshiko? It's exactly the same.
Let's go.
Sorry, but my shoulders have been pretty stiff lately.
I have to use compresses. Is that okay?
- Huh? - I love onigiri more than I love hamburgers.
And I'm an anime otaku.
What is this? You're just like Paul!
Right!
Thanks everyone. That's enough.
What is this? Who are you?
- I'm a Japanese teacher. - We're her students.
You're all together? Don't make a fool of me!
- Isn't it worse to make a fool of yourself? - What?
All you like is the appearance of a foreigner.
Girls like you, you're making Japanese girls all over look stupid!
Haruko-sensei.
Okay? Paul has a dream.
A fisherman? An Englishman fishing in Japan?
Don't laugh at someone's dream!
Paul has a dream. That's why he came here to study.
He worked hard to become familiar with the country.
People like you, judging those on their appearances,
you'll never understand what makes Paul great.
Shall we dance?
Get it now, Paul?
Paul-san?
Paul.
Paul didn't come today either?
I think you overdid it last night.
- Ugh. - I'm glad you got to a red light
but ran right into a big accident!
I'll be the last one laughing!
- There's no way now! - Yes, there is!
Excuse me.
- Ah! - Oh, he came.
Haruko. I'm going back to England.
Huh? What?
Maybe if I go back,
Momoko will come back to me.
What are you saying?
What's more important? Your dream or her?
Besides, she dumped you.
That's going too far.
Huh? Wasn't there someone who left someone important behind to follow their dream...
- What? - Sorry.
Paul, I'll tell you one thing.
It's probably easier to give up on your dream.
It's really easy to give up on it.
I lost a lot of things for my dream.
- Why are you saying that? - But!
I got a lot too.
Paul-san?
Aren't you glad you said that?
That wasn't for you!
I heard you! These ears don't miss a thing.
Well then. Now that you said that, maybe you can take responsibility?
- How about helping a bit? - No no.
"Won't you please help me Takasu-sensei?"
Paul.
Why are you here now?
Here.
It'll make you popular.
What's with this getup?
Fisherman style.
I can't work like that.
- Oh Paul. - What's with those clothes?
See, they're drawing back.
- That's the plan. - Huh?
Hey!
- Takasu-sensei! - I brought some customers.
My horse racing friends and a sumo coach.
Welcome!
Appetizers.
Oh? Menu? This place has it on the menu?
No, I just like it that's all.
Well at a standing bar, you just stand and drink.
Hey, let's go.
See you Paul.
- Ah, hey! - It's fine.
You don't need any more people who just like you for your appearance.
We'll find people who like you for your personality.
Hey hey, no!
You gotta mix it more for the threads!
I get it bro!
If you don't eat it all at once there's no taste!
He's blended right in.
Excuse me!
- Oh, a young lady is here! - Someone else too!
Hello! I'm Midori!
"Wanbanko"! (Konbanwa, good evening, in reverse)
"Wanbanko"!
Mama Midori?
She's not really a young lady though.
You're terrible! I'm 20 forever!
- I'm heading home. - Already?
- Yes? - I'll go ahead and use this.
- Here ya go. - Uh...
We don't have a coupon like this here.
She tricked me!
- Ah! - You look like a good man.
- No... - Let's drink.
Yes...
Hey! Ladykiller.
Fun, huh?
Thank you very much, teacher.
I got something after all.
Hey hey! That's not like you.
Oh, are you two going out?
If we're in the way, we can disappear.
- Haha! - Hey, quit it!
Ugh... definitely drank too much last night.
Excuse me.
Haruko, I've been thinking for awhile now.
I didn't know anything at all.
If you do now, it's fine.
I guess you really do like me.
- What? - You worked so hard for me.
All because you like me, right?
Oh man, he knows nothing.
He's going for it.
I'm actually a bit jealous.
I'm kind of flattered but, Haruko you're a bit...
See you.
What? Hey!
Why did I get rejected there?
Tough for a girl with no popularity.
Haruko-sensei, don't feel down.
I'm not!
Hello, Koubun Academy.
Okay, wait a second.
- Takasu-sensei, a call. - Who?
A Midori-san.
Are you okay. Your face has gone blue!
Oh! Looks like green can turn into blue after all.