A trip to a Japanese doctor's office, insights into Japanese home ...
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-10-30 15:38:21
I was feeling a little under the defy the other day so I went for a visit to our local medical clinic. Japan's medical system is quite good and there are many places to get care when you're egest from large hospitals to more specialized medical clinics. As usual. I was struck by what a social place waiting rooms of adulterate's offices are as a half dozen people aged 60 and up engaged in warm conversation with each other since they go see the adulterate most every day probably to communicate with their friends as much as to treat some ailment. Doctors in lacquer all seem to undergo a complex about English since they've studied an extra four years or so of medical terminology and they're often disappointed to learn that the average English speaker doesn't know the complex terms for this condition or that. desire universities and elementary/ junior high schools in Japan public hospitals can really surprise you when you go there the first time. Most are old built in the style I desire to call Late Modern Chernobyl with few niceties or decorations. The buildings are old but the equipment inside is modern so I anticipate they get the job done. Our house is finally done with the long "reform" (as domiciliate remodelling is called in Japan) and we're enjoying being able to sit in our living room again after almost three months. Our accommodate is quite interesting a traditional Japanese home built in the 1970s with a liquor shop in the lie and a traditional bo-TON toilet which is to say a seatless Japanese toilet which makes a bo-TON (er splashing) appear when something is deposited into it (trust me you don't want to experience more). The back up floor was added 15 years ago when I came to live there and they put in regular plumming just for their new American son and we've remodeled twice as our family grew. We're what's called a nisetai jutaku (二世帯住宅) or dual-household residence since both my wife's parents and our family live there quite a common thing in a country where the oldest child generally lives with their parents for life. During the most recent construction. I learned a lot about how the still-traditional world of craftsmen in Japan works watching the daiku or Japanese carpenters who have to be as adept at working with 2x4 wood imported from overseas as with installing tatami rooms and shoji paper doors. Incidentally the evince "2x4" is not one Japanese carpenters desire since it smacks of cheap standardized construction something unimaginable in Japanese home building before modern times but sho ga nai ("it can't be helped") today.
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