Paprika Girl (@PaprikaGirl

Paprika Girl

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Paprika Girl

@PaprikaGirl_JP

映像演出家、大神田リキ。Chicago出身, ICU卒, Kichijoji住まい. Everyone’s grandma at heart! Philosophy of Science major. Kimonos, tea, cats, culture, and Japanese film. E/J語❤︎

Musashino, Tokyo, Japan

Joined December 2017

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Paprika Girl
@PaprikaGirl_JP
Jun 30
It is Fumitsuki (文月), or July, in Japan! The rainy season is winding down and refreshing ways to keep cool take over the public discourse. Summer kimonos are now out and about, or yukata; the more casual version!
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Paprika Girl
@PaprikaGirl_JP
Dec 12, 2024
I’m a foreigner living in Japan since 2002, and I love living here. Here’s a thread of 20 honest advice items to consider if you want to have a good life in Japan.
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Paprika Girl
@PaprikaGirl_JP
Oct 3, 2023
Quick PSA: Daiso has rice scoops that shape the result into cats. This is what they look like when served with green curry; my husband’s specialty.
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Paprika Girl
@PaprikaGirl_JP
Dec 23, 2023
Replying to @ShouldHaveCat
They are adorablest. They get less wrinkly as they get older, but never have I had a cat with that much genuine love and affection for his owner. They’re so friendly, have so many expressions, and make the best hot water bottle ever!
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Paprika Girl
@PaprikaGirl_JP
Aug 2, 2024
Just to let everyone in on what’s happening on JP Twitter, Turkish sharpshooter Yusuf Dikec has been named the highly-meme-able olympic hero “Toruko Ojisan” (#トルコおじさん). When it was discovered that the casual, under-equipped godhand of cool old dudes was a cat lover, well
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Paprika Girl
@PaprikaGirl_JP
Aug 5, 2024
When traveling Japan, I usually take the non-highway roads through the mountains. There are called “to-u-ge” (峠). Though it takes slightly longer, you get to see hamlets and valleys off the beaten path. It’s significantly cooler than the towns in the summer, as well.
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I just finished watching the Indian film RRR, and it’s probably one of the best films I’ve seen in ages. A perfect blend of CG, music, and insane action. It’s completely over-the-top, but by far it makes movies fun again! And holy bananas, is that Ram Charan handsome❤︎@RRRMovie
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Paprika Girl
@PaprikaGirl_JP
Dec 12, 2024
Replying to @PaprikaGirl_JP
3/20: Get used to being a gaijin Japan is not a “happy melting pot” of peoples and ideas escaping gloom, war and poverty from around the world. No matter how many years you live in Japan - five or forty - you will always be a gaijin expat. You will never “become Japanese.” And
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Paprika Girl
@PaprikaGirl_JP
Jul 29, 2023
A kawadoko (川床) is a restaurant built right over a flowing mountain stream. Popular during the summer for obvious reasons, Kyoto has them in an area called Kifune (貴船). The cool breeze and rush of water beneath us as we ate lunch was a very welcome feeling. We went to
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Paprika Girl
@PaprikaGirl_JP
Sep 13, 2024
This morning at 9:00 AM, my grandmother-in-law in Hiroshima passed away at the age of 98. A beautiful, proud, formidable, and educated woman, she experienced the atomic bomb going off right over her head at 19, but survived and married to raise a handsome and accomplished family
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Paprika Girl
@PaprikaGirl_JP
Dec 12, 2024
Replying to @PaprikaGirl_JP
Finally: I’m a late Gen-X television director from Chicago who has seen and done more than your wildest nightmares. Don’t think I know? …I know. Despite all that, the above is my honest old-lady experience, and I’m happy to be your grandma in Japan if you have questions and
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My day job is in Japanese film production, such as screenwriting, which I will be engaged in as usual today. I thought perhaps you might be interested in the structure of a Japanese film script, which is very different from the western counterpart.
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Paprika Girl
@PaprikaGirl_JP
Dec 12, 2024
Replying to @PaprikaGirl_JP
5/20: Vouching is everything Japan runs like the mob - if you have an introduction, you’re in. If you don’t, you’re on your own, kid. For this reason, when a school / friend / employer gives you your first in, that’s your gateway to the world. Treat it like gold. The more you
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Paprika Girl
@PaprikaGirl_JP
Dec 12, 2024
Replying to @PaprikaGirl_JP
2/20: Learn Japanese. English may be Lingua Franca in other areas of the world, but in Japan it’s not. Pussyfooting around language learning will cut you off from the majority of society, and limit your world. Dive in, and never stop studying.
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