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Earlier in my blog, I mentioned I’m a   FAN of Hattori Heiji .   He is a detective with his unique Osaka spirit , while his accent has always been laughed at by other characters, as well as the audience. This is what I’m going to discuss today ——the misrepresentation of Osaka . *    *    *    *    *     *    *    *    *         *     *    *         * Many outsiders ,  including Japanese, tend to regard Osaka people’s accent or way of talking as funny , odd , and extremely out-of-date .  In some Japanese comedy shows, Osaka accent is used as a trick for laughter .               👓   🔎  I n  Detective Conan ,  🔍   👓 🎬   💁‍♀️   Judy , an American teacher, mistook Heiji as a foreigner because of his strange accent .  🎬   💁‍♂️ Heiji explained to her half proudly and half angrily that Osaka accent is also one kind of Japanese, which is called Kansai-ben ,  while Conan kept giggling.                                         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

L ast week, I introduced the signal of Osaka—— Tsutenkaku , while I also mentioned many Osaka people give their special position to Tsutenkaku, the Osaka Castle . Here is a picture of it, but wait, why is it on a manhole cover ?   🍃 ----------------------    👘.   👘.   👘.  👘.  👘.  👘.  ---------------------- 🍃 T hinking of manhole covers, dirty and stink odor come into our mind. However , here, and only in Japan, the manhole cover is joint with painting and artistic design and becomes a beautiful scenery.  While street art usually has its essence of illegalness and resistance (Millner, 2017), Japanese manhole covers are supported by all parties——the government, artistes, local citizens, and tourists.                                                  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- W alking on the Japanese streets, you can infer where you are even without looking up, only by relying on the manhole cover (Richarz, 2019).  The s

👓 · 👓 · 👓 · 👓 · 👓   A s a BIG   FAN of Detective Conan ,  the symbol of Osaka —— Tsutenkaku  has impressed me deeply. ————  🎉   🎉   🎉   🎉   🎉 ———— 🎬....  I n the film ....🎬  The Last Wizard of the Century ,  Kid the Phantom Thief left a warning letter saying he was going to appear from the luminous sky castle. It turns out to be Tsutenkaku, whose name means—— the towering building that rises to the sky. ------  🔭  ·  🔭  ·  🔭  ·  🔭  ·  🔭   ------- W ith its 103-meter’s height, it provides him with the best-overlooking view of Osaka .  Obviously , it also helped him to locate where the jewellery stored.  Though I am NOT interested in the jewellery he stole ,    ~~~~~~~  ✏️  ~~~~~~ I am fascinated by the view of Tsutenkaku   shown from both looking up and down.                         -------   🍃 · 🍃 · 🍃 · 🍃 · 🍃 · 🍃   ------- W hen it was first built in 1912 , locals were shocked by its height of 64 meters —— the tallest building in the Eastern world at that t

Hi everyone 👏 , and a big welcome to the teaching staff and classmates from the subject Going places — Travelling Smarter . It would really be a big gain to learn how to travelling smarter through blogs! I was born in Shanghai, China and travelled to Melbourne, Australia for university study. You can call me Neo. Below is a photo of me travelling to Sydney, and it's my first trip in Australia. Now I came back to Shanghai because of the COVID-19, a pandemic that makes travelling harder and with higher risks.  I am a BIG fan of travel, most of the time I travel in my hometown, China. My biggest motivation to travel is to experience new life. I am always curious about different things and new things. Travelling enables me to learn about new lifestyles and cultures.  I want to look at the world from as many perspectives as possible. And finally, find my own unique perspective . As said from the Pico Iyer reading: we tr avel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to fin