Things i learned in japan for the past 1 year

• Staying alive is not so easy in japan with various natural disasters.
• Japanese buildings are strong n almost immune to strong earthquakes. but tsunami is another thing
• Each city here has her own unique characteristics n cultures
• Japanese are NEVER on time... they always arrive earlier and leave late. 
• everywhere has cards... u have credit cards, member cards, point cards, restaurant cards, cinema cards, karaoke cards, pharmacy cards bla bla bla... we like cards! and i've LOTS of cards!
• the japanese bullet train, shinkansen is fucking awesome!... but expensive
• huge quantity of magazines, books, novels... available.. a very knowledgeable society.
• quoted a sentence from the comic book "crayon shin chan" saying by Sin Chan's neighbor's nephew, Robert-- "why japanese need to learn others' cultures like english when they already have a lot of awesome cultures in hand?" --- i couldn't agree more. 
• karaoke here is expensive, but if u check carefully, get a member card and choose a right time to go, it can be pretty cheap.
• No vegetarian shops here for me, sad.... and squash courts here is expensive, i'm still finding a cheap one. 
• The ability, way of thoughts that make them produce something from nothing.. 
• everything produced here has its own behind-the-scene touching story. Even the ticket sensing machines in the train stations were designed with a long period of hard works and determinations of the past few tens of years.
• to get into the points in a conversation here is extremely difficult. 
• watching the variety shows here... everybody laughing but not me... japanese jokes are difficult to understand. 
• u turn on the TV, every channel is variety show... 
• in winter, most people wear dark color jackets/coats
• Lots of japanese songs are very very nice and meaningful! 
• 2 single man and woman don't sit and have lunch together in factory. 3 above ok! 
• they walk faster then me!
• know how to speak english here sounds very high class
• know how to speak mandarin here is also "sugoi".
• in my country, suicide often means cut ur wrist, hang urself or jump of a building... here, suicide often means jump train or go mount fuji forest. lol
• the renowned suicide line, 中央快速線(rapid central line) delay frequently.
• "one piece" is more interesting when watching in Japanese language.
• oversea holidays sometimes are cheaper then travels inside japan. 
• Japanese Yen (currency) keep going stronger! people r sad but i'm very happy! lol
• The number of Jogging/running events here is like number of football matches.
• To get the chance to participate in Tokyo Marathon is more difficult then finding a job here.
• Engineering/Technology companies here often making losses in lots of infrastructure/technology business. -- reason: lots of things they build are simply so reliable that it just don't break. so no need to purchase a new one. lesson learned: build something easier to break, just like the nuclear power plant.
• it's very difficult to find a food court here.
• smartphone and iphone are different. mobile phone(携帯電話) and smartphone(スマートフォン） are also different. 
• lots of japanese songs are very meaningful. Below is one of them. I like it so much!