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Do you or your friends or family care about blood types? We do in Japan, and I learned it’s something specific in Japan. “anan” Magazine has just issued a number featuring blood types, while many books on blood types have been issued. Blood types is the issue that is liked to be discussed any time, anywhere, in Japan. My blood type is O, and it is roughly said; -to be a good leader -to be friendly and sociable -not to be worried too much about mistakes -to be romantic rather than realistic -to be good at taking care of people -to be a good speaker rather than a good listener -to be honest -to be careless -to be a poor planner -to show likes and dislikes strongly -to be too confident and selfish …Some sound true but some don’t. How about other blood types? For blood type B, it’s roughly said; -to be very active to work and hobbies -to be positive -to have diverse interests and curiosity -to have good sense especially for art -to be easily warmed up but just as easily cooled down -to dislike team playing work -to like to do things at one’s own pace

How about blood type A?
-to be responsible and deliberate
-to be a hard worker
-to consider moral, rule and regulation are something very important
-to value happy harmony
-to be well-organized
-to be inflexible
-to be worried too much about mistakes
-to be passive
-to be worried too much about what other people would think

Finally blood type AB
-to be cool-headed and very smart
-to be a good planner and flexible
-to be calculating to figure out if things are profitable to one or not
-to be a good listner
-to be mean-spirited from time to time
-to be irresponsible and confusing people around

If you know your blood type, what do you think?
Although my blood type is O, I have many traits from other blood types that apply to my personal character. How is yours?

But there I found one thing that looks definitely true to Japanese people. Did you know that blood type A is major in Japan? Meaning most of Japanese people are made from blood A-type of personality! There’s no wonder many of us are working very hard, and that many of us belong to companies as employees rather than entrepreneurs or self-employed. No wonder many of us are very shy due to the fear of making mistakes, being too deliberate to anything. Maybe that’s why we have to wear company uniforms, do things on time strictly, act polite, and so cooperativeness is considered something most important at work? No…you’ll deny that later when you see the chart at the bottom. :p

I hear that many foreign tourists in Japan are so much impressed with how polite and kind Japanese people are, how clean and well-organized train stations or public places are, how punctual everything is, and so on. Is that because blood-A created this country? No, I’m just kidding. XD

Look at the distribution map of blood types.
Disclaimer: The chart is from this site.

Overall, discussing blood types and personality maybe just nonsense, but Japanese people still like this topic a lot!
If you read Japanese, you can read more in details from here.
You can also try to enter yours and your partner’s blood types to enjoy the result of chemistry just for fun!

ps) This is a reserved post for you while I am off for vacation in Sydney. Your comments may need time until approved by me. But feel free to discuss and share your thoughts. I’m looking forward to reading them later! Thanks!!

I’ve updated a new post, actually a new page about Laforet Harajuku fashion department building. I have prepared a new page for this post, which means there’s no comment section under the post, I mean the page. (Pege and post are different functions. Post is available with comments, while page is not.) So if you want to say something as a comment, feel free to do that under this post.

Announcement
I am leaving for Sydney (Australia) this weekend!
I am visiting there for the first time in 10 years! It was the first time since my working holiday stay in 1999. I lived in Sydney for a couple of months then.

Originally, I am not a person who like to think back or look back old memory and that’s why I rarely try to go back to the pleces such as a old high school or university from which I graduated a long time ago, or the houses or places I spent my childhood. I like to meet with old friends but I am not that much interested in sharing the old memory with them.

But this time Sydney again, 10 years later in my life. I’d never think of going back there without this tempting offer.

It was only 40,000 yen (USD400) for the bound trip direct flight and stay at a high class hotel. There’s no way I should miss it!

It’s only 4 days over there, but it still means something to me.
I’ll come back and frequently on line somewhere around the first week of September. Catch you later!

Pork ginger is one of the most common home cooking recipes in Japan.
It doesn’t take time and is very easy.

To be honest, I am not someone who strictly measures ingredients when I cook meals like home-cooking recipes. That’s why I am so bad at giving instructions how many table spoon of bla bla bla…
Pork ginger is a good sample. I never measure with table spoons. Always my eyes measure but I never screw it up. :p
Maybe I am not qualified for cooking tutorials…^_^; sorry for that.
But I hope you enjoy the video I made.

Do you have any request for the next video? Are you also interested in Japanese lessons by a native Japanese speaker? (it’s me! :p )

PS. I forgot to add this photo!