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But there is yet another type of restaurants that are perhaps not so well known among foreigners, a kind of uniquely Japanese gastronomical melting pots found all over the country: You certainly can't call yourself an expert on Japanese food until you've eaten your fill at these places! They have all kinds of food, Japanese, Western and Chinese, appetizers, main dishes and desserts, and usually a much wider selection than a standard restaurant.
If you're hungry, they have extra large portions, or you can simply chat away for hours over a light snack. There is something for everyone. It is this wide variety of foods that makes family restaurants a Mecca for forlorn foreigners. Some British exchange student friends of mine had a hard time adjusting to Japanese food, and just went to fast food places like McDonald's and KFC every day. When I heard about their sorry state of affairs I took them to a family restaurant, and it was as if they had discovered a new continent.
Their happiness knew no bounds.
Ed Piskor “Hip Hop Family Tree vol.1 Japanese edition”
Now they frequently go to family restaurants, where they are sure to find something that appeals to the foreign palate, the staff are friendly, and the cuisine is much healthier than in the fast food joints as well. Family restaurants are usually fairly large with spaciously arranged tables, where each group — or solitary guest — can relax and enjoy their food at their own pace.
Many have large windows, and you can sit for hours just glancing at the streetscape outside. Actually, this laid-back, easy-going atmosphere is rather special to family restaurants in Japan. It is almost like another country. Japan is arguably the first postindustrial society to embrace the prospect of human-robot coexistence. Over the past decade, Japanese humanoid robots designed for use in homes, hospitals, offices, and schools have become celebrated in mass and social media throughout the world.
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Top Reviews Most recent Top Reviews. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Cultural studies books about Japan too often wind up reveling in either Other-ness or kawaii-ness. Given that this book deals with the particularly trendy topic of robots, it's all the more refreshing that it steers clear of those Orientalist traps.
It's a serious and worthwhile book, especially for readers interested in what the future will be like for those who live in Japan. The prognosis is not sunny. The author's JR's main themes are more connected to politics than to popular culture. JR closely examines a Japanese government manga called "Innovation ," promulgated in during the first Abe Administration.
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Among other things, robots are seen as a way to free women to have more children while working for "pocket money" by telecommuting from home. JR connects this vision to Abe's nostalgia for the authoritarianism beloved by his maternal grandfather, a member of the wartime Cabinet and later a peacetime prime minister. But it's not only Abe and his supporters who pull robots into this conservative vision: Japanese researchers seem to take it for granted that robots will be accepted into the home, and seem to emphasize a "build it, and they will come" attitude toward technical improvements without being very concerned about what users want.
In a later chapter JR deconstructs Mori Masahiro's famous "uncanny valley," the notion that as robots become more human in appearance and behavior they first will be more repellent to humans, until the likeness improves sufficiently for them to be accepted. Mori's original essay in Japanese expressed a contempt for the disabled that has been laundered out of translated versions.
Perhaps most depressing was the discussion of how a pair of Paro, therapeutic robots in the shape of a baby seal, were given a Japanese family registration kouseki because their "father" creator is Japanese.
Meanwhile, persons of Korean descent whose families have lived in Japan for generations are denied both a family registration and an easy path to citizenship. As JR points out, whereas in some cultures robots are seen as distinct from humans, to Japanese roboticists, government and opinion-poll respondents, the relevant distinction is between Japanese and non-Japanese, with even non-humanoid robots being no different from humans when regarded in this light. I'm currently teaching an undergraduate course on robots and society at a Japanese university. The emphasis in the course is the recent field known as "robot ethics," which has been the subject of a couple of good edited volumes in the past few years.