Japanease: Understanding Japan and Japanese People

Japanease: Understanding Japan and Japanese People

Having travelled in Japan for five years now I have decided that now is the right time to publish a book on the subject. Consequently I will be producing a manuscript in 2012, complete with original photographs, and publishing as an E-book available through Amazon.

In this work I will cover the story of my own relationship with Japan and the people I know here. The focus will be on understanding the Japanese mindset using the slightly humorous views of a London cockney. I will also be presenting a mythological analysis as would be appropriate in my occupation as a Comparative Mythologist.

This blog will serve as the fundamental background research for the text but new, unseen material, text, image and video, will be presented so that even the most devoted reader of these pages, and yes, there are people in secure institutions who write approving letters to me on a regular basis, will find this new book of interest.

The title is a word I "invented" five years ago to reflect something of how I feel in Japan. Japanease means to be comfortable and safe when amongst Japanese people; "I am having it Japaneasy right now!" This is probably not an original coining of the word but when I first wrote it I could not find another reference to it at that time. I do find that there is the Japaneasy Language School in Melbourne now and am therefore supplying a link on this page for those of you inclined to travel to Australia and take language lessons. This should be enough goodwill to prevent any claim that the use of Japanease and its grammatical derivatives somehow breaches either etiquette or law.

I am now hoping that a fervent wave of excitement and expectation will swell in the coming months as readers anxiously await publication of this marvellous new tome. Hopefully sales will make double figures over the coming yeas and I will be invited on lecture tours.

Back in the real world my expectation is that I will really enjoy writing this and some of you may even enjoy reading it. Beyond that I remain a truly fortunate human being gifted with a fine Ox Hammer, a redoubtable HMiL and invited to spend time in Japan every summer and winter, what more could a poor boy from the wrong side of the tracks ask for?