I am a Japanese med-student Akira (born on August 7, 1989), 18 years old, especially wishing to tell you something about Japanese culture.
I have had for many years a dream of becoming a pediatrician, so I have and will have to study lots more on, which I am not sure I could successfully go through were it not for teachers, friends and both parents of mine's kind support.
My Holy Grail is to devote myself to working with Doctors without borders for better, at least safer lives to lead for many children in African nations. I recently have come to find the Japanese society less aware of the importance of children, whom they will have to rely upon. They are always asking for "much more pension benefits without working so much". I would say it's stupid to spend more money in the way rather than education of children, since I think that it is every single child, not aged person, that could change the current evil direction that human beings are walking in. However, I still think that I should always be searching for any way I could be on to help those children get free of fear they are facing, at this very moment.
Yeah, I came across Wikipedia originally in Japanese. At that time I had little ability of foreign language since I was only 11 years old. I have studied hard since then and have been looking forward to putting my abilities to use. So I began to take part in the Wikipedia project :) Now I usually work on translating some English articles into Japanese.
has an acceptable command of English, French and German as well.
is wishing to be of help to you learning something about Japanese language or Japanese culture. Interested in either of them and not finding an article for what you were looking for? Don't hesitate to tell me!
Japanese: I'm a native speaker of Japanese language. I think it beautiful in that it features Kanji and a remarkable writing system which often runs vertically (of course it also runs horizontally. Actually, they are chosen to suit the place on which to write interchangeably. Have you ever seen them? I'm sure it will surprise you). I love Japanese language and will conserve it.
English: This is the first foreign language of mine. Actually, In Japan it is compulsory for any children over the age of 12 to have English classes in their Junior High schools. I'm not sure when I started studying it personally. I only remember that when I was three or four my parents gave me a cartoon videotape in which my favorite charactors were speaking all in English. I can even remember all the words they spoke in the story :)
German: I have been studied German for a year. I'm not yet so good at using it, but it really made me realize the fun I can experience when I became able to read something, write something and communicate through it :)
French: I chose French to be the language I major in in the university, for I wish to work in an environment which requires French as a method of oral communication. I will try hard.
Feel free to see ja:利用者:あきら ◆777777779w for further information. Note that it's written in Japanese, making it sometimes difficult for your system to show the charactors properly.
