{"id":3538,"date":"2021-11-03T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/?p=3538"},"modified":"2021-11-26T10:55:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T01:55:53","slug":"mimi-bunpou009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/mimi-bunpou009\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019ve heard that many Japanese people go dining alone, or go to the movies alone. Do Japanese people like to do things by themselves?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>&#8211; Vol.9 &#8211;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">ARC teacher Mimi Sensei will answer your questions regarding Japanese language.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/mimi-line4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"619\" height=\"60\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3412\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"border: 5px solid #e2cdd9; padding: 10px; border-radius: 5px; background: ##ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>\uff31\uff1aI\u2019ve heard that many Japanese people go dining alone, or go to the movies alone. Do Japanese people like to do things by themselves?<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>\uff21<\/strong><\/span>\uff1a<\/p>\r\n<p>\u3000\u3000Yes, in fact many people choose to do things alone. Me too, for instance, I like to go to see a movie by myself at the exact time when I feel I want to watch it. I might have never gone out and dined at the restaurant alone but&#8230;many times I have a solo lunch or go to a caf\u00e9 by myself.<\/p>\r\n<p><br \/>\u00a0Depending on the country, sometimes people tend to assume that if you go see a movie alone it\u2019s because you don\u2019t have friends to go with, but I feel like in Japan not so many people think that way. Among my friendships as well, some think that \u201cit\u2019s better to go alone\u201d.<\/p>\r\n<p><br \/>\u00a0You might have heard this, but solo karaoke is a thing too! Very popular. Of course, it\u2019s fun to go together with friends, but when you are alone, you can let go and sing out loudly, don\u2019t have to wait for your turn and can sing as much as you like the songs that you love: sounds like the perfect way to release the stress. I personally haven\u2019t tried yet but, why not&#8230;? \ud83d\ude42<br \/><span><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/00330b848f789bac522b57f203077239-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/00330b848f789bac522b57f203077239-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/00330b848f789bac522b57f203077239-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/00330b848f789bac522b57f203077239-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/00330b848f789bac522b57f203077239.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; Vol.9 &#8211; ARC teacher Mimi Sensei will answer your questions regarding Japanese language. &nbsp; &#038;&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,1],"tags":[25,26,28,23,24,27],"class_list":["post-3538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mimi-sensei-oshiete","category-news","tag-japanese-grammar","tag-japanese-writing","tag-jlpt-n4","tag-jlpt-n5","tag-katakana","tag-katakana-from-english"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/mimi-sensei.png","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3540,"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3538\/revisions\/3540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}