Makiko Itoh (伊藤牧子)

@makiwi

I write about Japan. Tokyo native. 日本人だよ。My books: Patreon: Links: 主に日/英 仏/独ちょっと Funassyi💙

Yokohama/bei Zürich
Vrijeme pridruživanja: prosinac 2007.

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    I have gained quite a few new followers recently for some reason (thank you!), So I thought I'd re-introduce myself. 😃 Hi! My name is Makiko, accent on the first part - MA-ki-ko. It's written 牧子 in Japanese. There are several ways to write Makiko, but that's mine. 1/

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  2. If I remember correctly, the most problematic one in this bunch in terms of blatant racism is The Secret Garden, although the protagonist Mary was supposed to be very contrary (heh)

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  4. Its *not* a widespread custom or anything to divide them like that though! It's a Yamada family thing. Although some families copied the game after the movie came out. 😄

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  5. The cards are nengajo, New Year's cards (like Christmas cards but for New Years). The father is making a game out of dividing them quickly by who they are addressed to.

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  6. (questions* of. Twitter grrr)

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  7. So I think that's it. I am that rarity, a real Japanese person you can read or ask question of in English! 😇 Anyway, thanks for stopping by. 😀 12/end

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  8. The things I focus on Japan-wise tend to be a bit random, but there are certain things I love more than others: - the food - history, esp. the Edo period - sumo - I am a big Hakuho fan - Funassyi the pear fairy is my hero - literature - crafty things 11/

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  9. So these are the things that define me really. 1. I'm Japanese, but I think I can look at the society from 'outside'. 2. I am really J/E bilingual. 3. My illnesses have changed me a lot. 10/

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  10. ...in 2016 I was diagnosed with another, unrelated cancer - a malignant sarcoma in my small intestines, aka a GIST. Actually I almost died there. But I have so far survived that too. (Skipping stuff like the hernia operation and the infected insect bite operation 😅 9/ )

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  11. So I started writing about more than food - Japanese culture, society, history, and whatnot. I did get back to food writing too (and never stopped writing for The Japan Times), and got to my 2nd cookbook in 2015-16. But then... 8/

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  12. The other big event for me in 2011 was that I got cancer (endometrial). After surgery, radiation therapy, brachytherapy, etc. I went into remission, but it took a couple of years to get back to feeling 'normal'. And it became rather hard to keep writing just about food. 7/

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  13. So...in 2011, two things happened. First, the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011, which totally devastated me, and also made me realize just how much Japan was part of me, and how Japanese I was, wherever I lived. 6/

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  14. I have written 2 cookbooks about making bento lunches! I was at the forefront of the bento revolution! Or so I like to think. 😁 Links to my books are in my profile. I also write a monthly food column for The Japan Times, and sporadically update my blogs. 5/

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  15. I can also read French to a middling level (like I can get my way through a newspaper), and less so German because it got really rusty after 10 years in France. Oh and I'm living in Europe mainly because my spousal unit is a Swiss dude. 4/

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  16. I was a former kikokushijo - that is, I spend a good chunk of my growing up years outside of Japan, which is why I can speak/write English. But thanks to my mother I can also speak/write Japanese. I'm equally comfortable in both, but I mostly tweet in English. 3/

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  17. I am a middle aged female, born in Tokyo. My parents are both Japanese. I live either in Yokohama, Japan or near Zürich, Switzerland (until last year was in France). I've lived in a bunch of other places too, in the US and UK. 2/

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  18. Well she was an aristocrat. But how many modern people would recognize a rice plant lol

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  19. My stepfather is in his mid 70s so he was born after the war, but grew up in a rather poor family where his mother often served suiton (dumplings) or udon because they couldn't afford rice. He still hates dumplings and is not fond of udon unless it's loaded with meat etc. 😅

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  20. Some people even have a dislike of flour products because for yers after the war it was used (as dumplings and so forth) as a substitute for that much desired 'good' rice.

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