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In this interview, she talks about leaving her career in human resources in a major automaker company, raising children in a new language and school system, while finding community in a diverse city. Despite these uncertainties, her outlook remains hopeful. Encountering “a different world,” she says, is “really stimulating”— giving her energy, curiosity, and a renewed sense of possibility.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Themes"]},"value":{"en":["Immigration and adaptation, raising bilingual children, Japanese vs. U.S. education, cultural traditions, women balancing career and family, ESL learning challenges, diversity in Jersey City"]}},{"label":{"en":["Publisher"]},"value":{"en":["Jersey City Free Public Library"]}},{"label":{"en":["Type"]},"value":{"en":["oral history","interview"]}},{"label":{"en":["Relation"]},"value":{"en":["English as a Second Language at the Learning Center: Learning English, Living in English (part of)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Coverage"]},"value":{"en":["Jersey City (N.J.) 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For questions about permissions on usage of this work, contact the New Jersey Room at \u003ca href=\"mailto:njroom@jcfpl.org\"\u003enjroom@jcfpl.org\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Preferred Citation"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003e\"Arisa Honda oral history interview (2025).\" Jersey City Free Public Library. November, 2025. URL.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Location"]},"value":{"en":["New Jersey Room, Jersey City Free Public Library"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eArisa Honda shares her story of moving from Tokyo to Jersey City with her family and beginning a new chapter of life in the United States. In this interview, she talks about leaving her career in human resources in a major automaker company, raising children in a new language and school system, while finding community in a diverse city. Despite these uncertainties, her outlook remains hopeful. Encountering \u0026ldquo;a different world,\u0026rdquo; she says, is \u0026ldquo;really stimulating\u0026rdquo;\u0026mdash; giving her energy, curiosity, and a renewed sense of possibility.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eRecording and participant contributions are made available under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eCreative Commons License CC0: Public Domain Dedication\u003c/a\u003e. This work has been dedicated to the public domain. Users are enabled to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, with no conditions. The use of a work free of known copyright restrictions may be otherwise regulated or limited. The work or its use may be subject to personal data protection laws, publicity, image, or privacy rights. For questions about permissions on usage of this work, contact the New Jersey Room at \u003ca href=\"mailto:njroom@jcfpl.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003enjroom@jcfpl.org\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"]}},"provider":[{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/aboutus","type":"Agent","label":{"en":["Jersey City Free Public Library"]},"homepage":[{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/","type":"Text","label":{"en":["Jersey City Free Public Library"]},"format":"text/html"}],"logo":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/715/original/cropped-JCFPL-Logo-Navy_transparent-1.png?1752521730","type":"Image"}]}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/296/960/small/TJCMP-01_0004_P02.JPG?1762409620","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 1 - TJCMP-01_0004_R02.mp3"]},"duration":4147.56,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/296/960/small/TJCMP-01_0004_P02.JPG?1762409620","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-jclibrary.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/296/960/original/TJCMP-01_0004_R02.mp3?1762405048","type":"Audio","format":"audio/mpeg","duration":4147.56,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Transcript [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=0.0,1.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: Good morning. This is Miriam Dominguez of the Jersey City Memory Project. Today is March 31st, 2025. I am interviewing Arisa Honda. Please Arisa, introduce yourself.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=1.0,15.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: I am originally from Japan. I am 40 years old, and I moved in the Jersey City four month ago. My background is that I raised in Tokyo and born in Tokyo and after soon after graduating from school, I am entering the, called the Nissan, the automaker and engaged in the Nissan for years. And also I am a mom of two and my daughter is eight years old, and I also have a 5-year-old, so","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=15.0,54.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: That's wonderful. So, you have two children here in the United States. So, before we go into your history learning English and your professional background, let's talk a little bit about your family. You moved to the United States with your family.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=54.0,72.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=72.0,73.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: What does your husband do? Why did you move to the states? How are your kids adapting to this new life? Speaking English?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=73.0,83.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Yes. Well, the trigger to come to here is that, well, actually my husband assignment and my husband worked for the stock company for years, and his background is experiences, all the investment marketing. So that's why due to his assignment, we came to the United States, and he worked for the Japanese stock company for years. And also here also that he has and working at the Maha, he works and my kids goes to the elementary school and a public, not private elementary school, and also the prep school, pray school.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=83.0,142.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And well before the coming here they kind of learn just a little bit English, but they don't speak English so well. So, it is really, they're so struggling to learn the English, catch up with the English, but well actually my son is because my son is five years old. So, he really enjoyed their life, his life, and really speaking English so proudly and with the confidence. So yeah, even at home sometimes he speak English. But my daughter is a completely opposite because of her personality, she's really reserved, shy, and at the same time she's really perfectionist. So, she doesn't make mistake or she kind of be shy at home speaking English because she's not so fluent. So she never speak English at home. And so assignment, it is really difficult for her to do it, especially for example, that life for example, the life is really, really life. The term is life, word is life is really, really simple. And also, it's really easy for me. But she never doesn't know the term word life. It's because it's invisible. I mean intangible. So I think he's really struggling with explaining something intangible.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=142.0,259.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: What is the difference in the Japanese language when you want to explain something intangible and why your daughter is struggling with translating it into the English or to understand the idea of life in English? How do you say that in Japanese? And is it tangible at all or?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=259.0,280.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: I think it's the stage. I mean that life stage, I think for example, the life is life. The life has, well actually the words life has so many meanings. So, in Japan, sometimes equal the same, sometimes equals the energy, sometimes it causes just daily life. The say, there's so many words. So, I think the “kikyo dousa”  起居動作 ), it is really close to our daily life. So I think we can just learn there through the daily life. And then I cannot explain it so well, but I think through the lives I think we can memorize or remember and learn the words. So we don't have any word note, the list of the words or vocabulary test. We don't have it, but we just learned through the experiences.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=280.0,353.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: So, I misunderstood you what you meant is that for your daughter, she doesn't get that through her life, she will be acquiring English through her experience. She wants to do it by something tangible like studying. Yes. Okay. So that was my misunderstanding. Oh, no, no, no. Okay. So, she still feels like she has to study and get it correct","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=353.0,376.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: That’s it","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=376.0,377.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: Is it going to come easily for your son, who is five? She's eight. He's five, that's right. And what about you? How long have you been speaking English or learning English in Japan? And tell us your experience as an adult.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=377.0,396.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Yeah, originally, well actually yeah, when I was just learned the English when I was 13 years old because of I think the composed subject in Japan. And so well in Japan we usually study English as a subject of subject. So I think two or three times a week. Yeah, usually we have a class of English, but because of the lack of the teacher's, literacy, English, literacy, well usually at that time for me it is basically glamour.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=396.0,447.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Vocabulary, leading is everything. So we didn't have any times we spared in the speaking or listening or something interactive. So I think Japanese tend to be really good at glamor, but they cannot speak English. It's a really typical Japanese trend. Oh, well,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=447.0,474.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: But you speak very well.  So did you have any practice in Japan for speaking?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=474.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Yeah, of course. Of course. Well actually I stayed in California for eight months as an exchange student.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=480.0,487.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: Oh, how cool. Where was that when you were in high school or college?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=487.0,491.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Oh, in the college.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=491.0,493.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=493.0,493.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Yes, because my father worked for the trading company for years, and he went on the busiest trip when I was a child so often. So, I just got interested in the other cultures. And also that he stayed in the south school year for three years when I was a high school, junior high school.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=493.0,523.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So, the three years are really big to me. So because of the taking opportunity of the assignment, I went on the just private trip to South Korea and also Thailand, Indonesia, or Asian countries. So I just explored the different world, and I really got into it. So I just wanted to study abroad, but it is really expensive for our lives and also even in Japanese, so I wanted to use exchange program. So I studied and pass the university that has a really rich exchange program. They accept many, many falling students from all over the world. So that's why we can just use a exchange program. It just because it is exchange program. So yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=523.0,596.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: So, did you stay with a family when you were in California or you stayed in the dorms?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=596.0,601.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: I stayed in the dorms. Oh,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=601.0,603.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: How do you feel about college life in the United States as opposed to college life in Japan?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=603.0,609.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Yeah, it's really, really culture shock. And it is really surprising to me, for example, that well, everything are so new. And also that, for example, the school at the university, they just move the class by the conversation, I mean the discussion. But in Japan, it's kind of the lecture style. So just take a lecture and also do the writing journal and the submission that link to the variation. So usually rating, so usually taking the course and receive the lecture and then do the writing and take the exam and then based on that thing, so we ate. But here United States, it is because of the how proactively we do the conversation or discussion. We did a discussion or some it is because it has a smaller number of the class, a small number of the students in class. Yes. Actually in Japan it usually has a hundred per teacher.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=609.0,695.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: Wow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=695.0,696.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Especially in the university.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=696.0,698.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: In the university. Okay. So here it's smaller","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=698.0,701.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=701.0,701.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: Classes. Wow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=701.0,702.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=702.0,703.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: Okay. So that's a difference. That's a big contrast. And one of the things that we have discussed this in class and outside of the interview, you have told me about this. You have two children, you are celebrating their birthdays. Tell me about birthdays and these celebrations in Japan, and what is the big difference that you have found here in Jersey City, the United States. So if you want to share that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=703.0,731.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Yeah, I think in terms of the birthday, usually we do some family gathering and exchange some appearance. Usually the gift, the gift to the boys or girls. But just in addition to the birthday, we celebrate the girls' growth or boys' growth annuity. And also at the certain age of certain age. So for a newly, we usually have two days for the children. One is the girls festival on the March 3rd, and the other is the children's day, the May 5th. And for the girls principal, we usually make some feast, a special feast and making a sushi and a cooking sushi. And also preparing the mochi, his mochi, and then displaying some dolls. It is kind of the ancestor, I mean that will link the kimono, their traditional Japanese crews, the pair of the boys and girls. It is kind of the symbol of the Japanese, I think. Or sometimes the aunt sister, but usually the emperor. So we usually display it and make a feast and together. And on the May 5th, it's for kind children's day, but it is considered as a boys' day. So usually we display the Japanese helmet, traditional helmet we call the capital, and also displaying some cups. Cups, yeah, flying cups.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=731.0,857.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=857.0,858.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: It is kind of a symbol of the power and also toughness. So we usually pray for their health and growth and also that our success in the future. And also at the age of, for the boy at the age of the five, and the girls at the age of the third and seventh, on November 15th, around the November 15th, we usually have a really formal celebration to celebrate their birthday, celebrate their birth, well actually to celebrate the birth, usually wearing the kimono and take a family photo and go to Shrine for the pray. Special pray takes about 30, 40 minutes, kind of really formal pray. And then they have a dinner or lunch together with the families, both parents, I mean both grandmother and grandparents. So it is really, really literal one.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=858.0,936.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: So, it's not from the Shinto religion.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=936.0,939.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Yes, yes, that's true. That's true, yes. And also because in old days, because a child doesn't grow enough and also the child tends to die. So there are so many ceremonies within the one year. Yeah, one year for example, 107 days after birth, a hundred days after birth, half birthday and birthday, we celebrate all. So usually they from the gathering and it's celebrate the growth. So it's not their birthday, but there's so many ceremonies to celebrate the growth, their growth.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=939.0,986.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: That's wonderful. So when you were in Japan, you celebrated all of this with your children?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=986.0,994.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: For the parents, even the number of the increase of the working parents, I feel so pressured because my mother did it so well. And there's so many photos we are in the kimono with me. And so that's why I feel so pleasured by kind of the parents to do it. And also I feel pleasured as a really good parent. I have to do it and I want to have my child experience it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=994.0,1031.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: Yes. So here in the New York City metropolitan area, if not Jersey City, have you had a chance to do any of this? Is there a place that you can celebrate the shrine or somewhere here in Manhattan? Maybe. I don't know how the Japanese community does it here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=1031.0,1053.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Well, actually I think No, no, no. There is no shrine, So yeah, some people, I think that there are a couple Japanese photo studio. It can borrow some rent, some clothes, Japanese clothes like kimono. But I think it is not so common. So yeah. So just usually the Japanese growing in here,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=1053.0,1087.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: Birthday party. You mentioned that you had birthday parties here. And what do you see different than birthday parties here in Jersey City as opposed to Japan?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=1087.0,1101.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Yeah, I think when I cold my old days, I feel that, I think it is really same with the old days in Japan.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=1101.0,1119.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=1119.0,1121.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Yeah. I was celebrated. My many student, my classmates and all the classmates brought their gifts and cards. So it's really good tradition. I mean that practices, and at the same time now I feel that it is because of the, it's really sometimes affected, I mean influenced by the US culture. For example, the PTA, the Parents Teacher Association, due to the increase of the work appearance, it is that culture of the PTA is shrinking nowadays in Japan. But when I was little, a child, yeah, PTA is really powerful and they do everything and sometimes they have really, yeah, the PTA was too powerful. Kind of scared. So scary. So I think originally the PTA was influenced by the US after the World War ii, right?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=1121.0,1214.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: It comes","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=1214.0,1214.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: From the US.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=1214.0,1215.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: It comes from the US. When you were growing up in the nineties, that was a strong influence in children upbringing there. Yes. So now here you had your daughter and your son birthday recently. And what are the expectations that you didn't have in Japan, but you encountered here to organize a birthday party? What way? Expectations. You are organizing a birthday party, but you have not organized a birthday party as such in Japan. So, what did you find difficult and how did you feel that obligation, if you will, of doing certain things for the birthday party? Was it stressful? And at the end, was it fine? And yeah, how do you feel with finishing the stories?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=1215.0,1275.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: I feel some pleasure. Yes. Because at my school, my kids’ school, we usually send out to all the classmates. So, we have to invite 17 kids or 20 kids. And it is really big to us. And also serves as the art studio. But yeah, it is really sometimes, to be honest, it's really costly. I mean expensive. So I think some people really love it, but I think some people feel, so it is kind of obligatory, but it is really big burden financially, I think. And also the, I dunno, but sometimes unconsciously we tend to compare the each kid's birthday party, I don't know.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=1275.0,1338.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: Unconsciously.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=1338.0,1339.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Unconsciously. So I think as a parent, I think I feel pleasure to succeed. The birthday party, it should be more fantastic or great moments and a fun time. Yeah, but stressful nonetheless. Yes, sometimes yes. So I just enjoyed it because I think it is kind of adapted to western culture. And also my mother did it well when I was a child. Yeah. So that's why I think it's really good stress. I mean, in a good sense, it's stress as a parents, it's kind the really kind of training to be a great parents, yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=1339.0,1393.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: But I think it is, yeah, a fact that or reality that some people, I think it's really expensive. It is really costly. Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=1393.0,1408.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: So do you have been with your family here trying to adapt your children, trying to adapt to school and you using English in your everyday life? You had a career in Japan, you continue working now, but not full-time, is that right? So oh, I don't work now. You don't work. You don't work","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=1408.0,1430.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Now because of actually for the visa, I think two years ago, yes, we are allowed to, you have spa also that allowed to do it. I think it started around two years ago.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=1430.0,1446.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: So what did you do in Japan? You mentioned it briefly, but what was your professional life there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=1446.0,1457.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Yes, initially. Initially my assignment, initial assignment was a forklift during domestic sales. But yeah, since I stayed in California as an exchange student, I just want to do involved in the global business. So I moved to the HR as a headquarter. So for years, firstly, I was engaged in the overseeing or supporting the Asia, I mean the SEM market. So there are so many local, the HR and so talking. And also because we set the standard Nissans variation systems and also the compensation systems. So I oversee and also the sometimes support gives the support or some, and also it's kind of a LIA liaison, sometimes liaison, gather the so many data and explain it to the senior executives or something.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=1457.0,1536.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: Do you miss your job?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=1536.0,1541.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Yes, yes, yes, yes. Because I was so satisfied with the work. Yeah. Because of it is really huge company. So I mean, my work is really silo. So it is kind of the small sometimes and also the speed of the work is kind of slower than the small company. But I think impact, in terms of the impact, I think I just fulfilled, I mean the satisfied, everything,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=1541.0,1581.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Communicating fossil frequently with each regions local staffs. For example, the US in the Nashville or in the Mexico or sometimes in Yolo, because my R is kind of the, I transfer in the HR function. So many, for example, sometimes three years in Asia hr and the three years in the kind of field hr, I mean that it is really operational hr, I mean as a business partner. Okay. Yeah. Alright. And three years kind of the trust HR systems. Okay. And also the compensation. Yeah, there's so many I think. But because I am working in the headquarter, I think we are really close to the top management. And also we are really close to the many local representatives in the legion. So it is really good opportunity for me to do it because one of my dream is to do the business with many people all over the world.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=1581.0,1667.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: So you enjoy traveling and interacting with other people from different places, of course. So how do you feel about your life here in Jersey City With people from all over the world?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=1667.0,1682.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=1682.0,1684.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: What has been your impression about the diversity in the population here?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=1684.0,1690.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: I think it's really quite good because I think, well, especially in my kids' Catholic school, at my Catholic school is ethnically, it is quite diverse. I mean 25% white, Caucasian, 25% Asian, Asian, 25% black or yeah, it is really equally diverse. So I think diversified, so categories. So I think it is really good. I mean it, I think, I'm not sure, but if there's some ethnicity dominant in this class, I think it feels something different, we feel. But I think it is equally diversified. I mean, yeah. So I think we don't have any brewing or because the people were really respectful to the different culture because of when they were five or four years old. So I think they can just, diverse culture is really, I guess a foundation for their lives. Well put. That's well put. So by That's really great. Early. Yeah, when I was stayed in California, Hispanic and also the Caucasian are dominant. So the dominant, yeah. Yeah. So majority. So I think I enjoy it, but I think it's really quite different from, but I think I enjoy and also the respect for them. But I think I feel some minority in a good sense. I don't feel the negative feeling, but I feel some distance. But yeah, here I am included. You","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=1690.0,1831.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: Feel included? Yeah. All right. So how do you feel about people's attitudes towards you and your family in general? You come from Japan, are people curious about Japan when they see you or they treat you like anybody else and they don't have a lot of curiosity, are they nice or are they just normal? How do you feel about that? I think they're so quite","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=1831.0,1856.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Normal. Yeah, in good sense. Because Japanese thought the special or not. Yeah. There are so many Japanese or Asian people and I think they consider Japanese, oh, you are Japanese, oh, that's great. Sushi or CI cetera. But I think it's really quite normal to accept the Japanese. So I think in Jersey City, the people are so, how do you say? Yeah, they usually used to just accept all the different cultures. So I think it's really good. Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=1856.0,1902.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: So you feel among the people, it's really unique. I It's unique. Yes, it is. People are used to spending time with people from all over the world. It's not anything that people are really rejecting or very much excited about it. They're just normal interactions.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=1902.0,1923.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Yeah, I think it is really quite different from, for example, the Nashville.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=1923.0,1930.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: Nashville, you mentioned Nashville.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=1930.0,1932.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Yeah, I went on the bus trip to Nashville. And Nashville are totally different. It's totally different. That's, and also city, it's totally different. Yes. Yeah. But I think the people also good, but I think easier kind of standout. Yes. But I think here I am so included.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=1932.0,1958.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: Yes. That's wonderful. So","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=1958.0,1960.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: They don't sta at me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=1960.0,1962.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: It's really, and you appreciate that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=1962.0,1965.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Yes, yes. That's right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=1965.0,1967.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: Yes. And do you think that's beneficial for your children to adapt better to English?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=1967.0,1972.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Yes. Definitely not feel, definitely,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=1972.0,1977.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=1977.0,1979.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Are so many classmates who speak, who are bilingual, I mean speak Spanish and English, or sometimes they, the Hindu language and also the English, that's really quite normal. So I think the kids also just accept it and also, yeah, embrace it. Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=1979.0,2004.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: I like when you said it becomes a foundation in","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2004.0,2006.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Your","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2006.0,2007.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: Life. Yes, that's right. To see that diversity, that was well put. Absolutely. So it is a very diverse place. Are you still, or have you been involved with the Japanese community? Is there a Japanese community? Could you tell us about how the Japanese American or the Japanese expats live here in Hudson County or in New Jersey? Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2007.0,2031.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Well, actually due to the increase of the land, the number of the people living in Jersey is increasing, I think. Yes. Yes, it is. Because of In terms of the experts also? Yeah, in general, I think because the Jersey city is developing at the same time the other New York City's rent is rising and sometimes it's too high and it is beyond the budget, the company's budget. So we usually, and also it's sometimes kind of safety or yes, some elements. For some elements. People are still moving on Jersey Sea. But I think tendency, usually people living here is the parents who have the kids under 10 years old, under the age of the 10. It is because the Japanese people really passionate about the education and Jersey City. In terms of the education, it is really quiet kind of the now developing. But still there are so many good elementary school. But for the junior high school or high school, sometimes they move to the northern part of the New Jersey.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2031.0,2137.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: It is because of the education, right? Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2137.0,2139.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Also because in the northern part of the Jersey City, Japanese, the really big Japanese school is there. And also, yeah, also they can build a house, a bigger house.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2139.0,2159.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: So that's North Bergen County.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2159.0,2164.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Yeah, Para, para","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2164.0,2167.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: Edgewater, Bergen County, Paramus? Yes, yes. That's where there is a larger Japanese Community.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2167.0,2174.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Yeah. But yeah, as you said, the number of the community, the number of the Japanese parents are increasing because it is really because of the access to the Manhattan and also the comfortability. 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The sanitary, you come from a big city","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2202.0,2206.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: From","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2206.0,2206.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: Tokyo. Tokyo,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2206.0,2207.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2207.0,2208.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: Now you are living in Jersey City and by extension in the New York City metropolitan area. So, what are the differences living in Tokyo and living here in terms of accessibility to public transportation or having things to do for the kids, museums, things like that? How do you feel about living here and yeah, first of all, public transportation?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2208.0,2232.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: It's really well organized. So I think 80% quite safe. Yeah. When I was in Japan, I didn't own car and I usually take a bus and also the public transportation train. And also my kids also go to some classes by train. In terms of the public, transportation is more or less same? Yes. Strictly speaking, I think that subway is better. In Japan it is, because sometimes we have to work three minutes, the one station to one station, even though the name of the station name is 14th Street. But sometimes we have to walk.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2232.0,2292.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: Yes, you have to with the whole block underground.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2292.0,2297.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Yes. Sometimes it is really confusing for the tourists or the strangers sometimes. Yeah. But more, less, yeah, the same. Yeah. But I mean, yeah, but education, yeah, the same education is the same. Yeah. Oh, what is the question about it? Sorry.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2297.0,2327.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: No, that was a good answer.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2327.0,2330.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: And also, the lifestyle, quite same because of the globalization, my lifestyle, even Japan's lifestyle, also due to the globalization, I think that it is kind of the westernized. Yes. And also, yeah, also when we get to the shopping mall, the majority of the shopping mall, the tenant, I mean the shops are really familiar with me, right? Yeah. For example, the dollar or H on them, uni or some The shoes. Yeah, shoes, for example. The shoes shops, the name is different, but the variety of the shoes are so the same. So the difference is only","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2330.0,2386.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: The price? So, you mentioned globalization. How do you feel about that growing up in Japan? Have you seen changes that were struck in? Of course. Of course.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2386.0,2400.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Due to the Ali [Ali Express] of the fast fashion trend shops. So how do you feel about that? Yeah, it is in Japan. Yeah, we see the, yeah, when I was a kid, even in Tokyo, every small metropolitan, I mean that small town I so different","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2400.0,2427.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And it because of the, in compliance of the different small individual shops. But now it is dominated by the really chain stores. And because of the global competitions. Yeah, many, many falling little stores entering the Japan market and dominant, really dominant. For example, the McDonald's. Yeah, yeah. McDonald's was really, yeah, 10 years ago, MacDonough had a really big trouble in Japan in terms of the food safety, but now recover so well. And yeah, my kids really love it. And well, in terms of the McDonald's Happy Meal, the to the same. Yeah. Well actually the toy is a Tor same still. My kids love that happy meal here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2427.0,2497.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: I've spoken with somebody else about McDonald's in different countries, a McDonald's in Japan and a McDonald's here in the United States are different menus. What is different? 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I think","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2510.0,2536.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: Now it's something","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2536.0,2537.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Like that change we can customize or something. So a salad bar. Salad bar, yes. So I think yeah, happen in Japan too. Of course. That's more healthy eating habits than here. Yeah, I think for example, the Indonesia. Indonesia, the McDonald. Yeah, I went, my kids really love it, but I think it has some rice menu or something. It is really quite distinctive. Different from the other. How interesting. Yeah, Japan, it's really interesting. But in Japan we don't have any, so it's really quite the same.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2537.0,2578.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: Oh, well thank you for telling me about,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2578.0,2581.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: I had to ask you. Yes. But I think Japan's really get used to the hamburger culture and due to the Happy Meal, my kids really into the Happy Meal. I think in terms of the toys, I think in terms of the toys, I think the toy is better in Japan than the here, because usually McDonald's have a collaboration with many famous toy maker, toy manufacturer, like to, or sound characters, or dry so many characters. So they launched so many, the ladies, so many good toys. So my kids love it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2581.0,2634.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: You mentioned Sanrio, I don't know how to pronounce it correctly.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2634.0,2638.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Hello Kitty.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2638.0,2639.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2639.0,2640.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: How do you feel as a Japanese person that influenced that Japanese characters and Japanese aesthetics have had in American society? What's your view? And we all love these characters and are so into this TV shows, manga and all kinds of things. Japanese. I think that's great. That's great. That's great.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2640.0,2665.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: I think I'm really proud of it. Your character. Yes, of course. But it's funny that in Japan, kind of fluffy one is popular. I mean, the funny story is that do you know the Disney character called the Duffy? Yes. The Duck Duffy? No, I don't. Duffy is a bear.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2665.0,2694.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: A bear. Okay. And it was really, really popular. And there's so many mania. Mania. I mean,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2694.0,2704.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: So many who are obsessed with Duffy mania. Yeah, Duffy mania. Yes. Okay. Yeah. But here in the United States, I went to the Disney World, but there is no Duffy, because Duffy is not popular here. So I think So the tendency that people prefer are different. That's really interesting. Because I think in Japan is a really cute culture. So I think they prefer so fluffy and so past color. So yeah, childish one, they really love him. But here, I think it's kind of different, even when it comes to the Hello Kitty","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2704.0,2764.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: Different. Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2764.0,2766.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: I mean, it's westernized. So, I think it's really, really quite interesting.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2766.0,2773.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: That's","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2773.0,2773.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Interesting. Yeah, because I think due to the Kawai culture, people in Japan really loves that Daffy. And also the, I dunno, the Ola Mill, my daughter is love them. Well, I've never seen them, right? It comes from, I look them up. Disney. These are Disney names. And I think Launch it is really famous in Japan. Yeah, very interesting. Every kids know that that Daffy is because I think, yeah, it is a symbol of the Disney Sea. Disney Sea. That is one of the theme park. The Disney Sea.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2773.0,2821.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: Disney Sea, okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2821.0,2822.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Yeah. The symbol of the Disney. And there's so many because, oh, that's five or six","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2822.0,2831.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: Of these characters.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2831.0,2832.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Characters,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2832.0,2832.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2832.0,2834.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: It is quite Kawai culture. Yes,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2834.0,2837.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: It is.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2837.0,2838.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: So, what is Kawai? It's fluffy and it is really, how can you say it's like a pet? 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That really","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2849.0,2858.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: Sweetness.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2858.0,2859.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Yeah, sweetness.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2859.0,2860.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: Yes. Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2860.0,2861.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/132","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Yeah. But I think here, even the child, they tend to be really adult-like,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2861.0,2875.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/133","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: Yes,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2875.0,2875.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/134","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2875.0,2876.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: Oh, but very interesting. You think that,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2876.0,2879.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Yeah, for example, the two years old girl, yeah, they hear people walk here, but she works like a lady like that. But here in Japan, they really like to work as a just child. I mean the kids, right? Yeah. To be really like, to be felt like kids. Girl, childish.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2879.0,2911.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/137","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: So, childhood is precious, traditionally something very valued. And that they don't want to stop or to change for as long as you can. Oh, that's wonderful. In a childhood is precious. We are children for so little of our lives.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2911.0,2930.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: That's true.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2930.0,2930.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: That's true. That's wonderful. And so, with all of these changes and these contrast and all these wonderful things that you have shared, just getting back a little bit into English. So, a lot of things that get lost in translation, that you have a good English education. You mentioned that grammar was the focus, and eventually you speak, well, you are using English. Is there anything in the English language that you have found particularly difficult when speaking with Americans in a day-to-day interaction?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2930.0,2967.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Oh, yes. Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2967.0,2971.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/141","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2971.0,2972.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/142","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Well, actually Japanese, in Japanese, the sentence is formed even without the subject. Okay. Here, for example, I 20, for example, will my kids is I am eight years old and say, don't say I or just conversation is formed without the, I mean without the subject. Without the subject. And so I was really messed up with, sometime when we speak English, oh, my daughter or her daughter, I so miss up because in Japan, we don't have say he or she or we don't say, he never say that. For example, my son is blah, blah, blah, and we don't have to say she, he is or no, never say that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=2972.0,3045.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: How do you know you are talking about your son? You said my son or his name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=3045.0,3050.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Yeah. First of all, I usually say my son is, oh, you my son is blah, blah, blah. And then we don't say anything about the son because of the context. We can just, yeah, we know each other that well. It is about him. 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So usually the Japanese consist of the subject and the VE is the last thing. Yeah. Okay. So when we listen to the whole sentence, and I understand the tense. Okay. Yeah. But usually the, because of the contest, we can just, we can assume that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=3221.0,3262.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yeah, but I cannot, it's really quite difficult to catch Ed. I mean, is it past tense? For example, I bought a, if it is regular, when I was, yeah, the yesterday's party, I talked with my mother friends about the car. Do you have a car? Oh yes, I have a car. But no, usually we don't say the yes or no. I just ask that, oh, do you have a car? And no, but she talking about the past, she had a car and she used a car. And when she was in Chicago, she used a lot. And she went to, because of the, her husband office is afar, but she went to, so for example, that sentence, I was so messed up with all the, it is about the presence or the past tense. For example, the use, car use and used, I cannot catch it used or used.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=3262.0,3339.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/155","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: It's really confusing to me. Okay. So, it's that sound that will tell you that it's a regular verb,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=3339.0,3347.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/156","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: But the sound tof Ed on a regular verb will be confusing to hear and know that your friend of your son's mother, look at that. It was talking about the past.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=3347.0,3361.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/157","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Yeah. So, through the context, I realized, okay, okay, I understand. But usually it is really difficult to catch the past tense. Past tense, yes. Or presents. Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=3361.0,3374.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/158","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: Yeah. Yes. Well, so what do you hope for the future, for you and your family? Do you see yourselves being here for the long term? Or what are your hopes or your plans if you want to share with","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=3374.0,3393.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/159","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Us? 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And also, yeah, it is a full excitement. Yeah. Because of, we are living in cities, so the changing every day, the changes happen. So I think it's really quite good. But I think it depends on my husband's work and also the, my career, because I based, I was based in Japan. So yeah, it's really difficult to find a job because in terms of the HR, HR is so different. I'm engaged in the global by HR, but usually the global HR, have to be the headquarter, headquarter work. And I live in New York. We have New Jersey. New Jersey is the kind of the town of the financial market. Yes. Not the manufacturing.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=3394.0,3498.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/162","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: Yes. That's a,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=3498.0,3499.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/163","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Yeah, I am, from my background is HR in the manufacturing company. So, it's a totally different,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=3499.0,3507.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/164","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: Right?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=3507.0,3508.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/165","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Yeah. And also, for example, the company Global HR Compensation system is Okay, good. Yeah, I know. But yeah, for example, usually even the hr, we have to know about, we have to be familiar with the benefit or compensation system in US","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=3508.0,3537.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/166","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: Employment","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=3537.0,3538.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/167","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Are also totally different. So, I have to learn about study about the low, for example, state law or labor low or et cetera. So totally different.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=3538.0,3552.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/168","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: Yes. That would be almost a career change, looking into more training and Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=3552.0,3559.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/169","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Yeah. So it's really difficult to find the job. Yes. So I think the education wise, it's really great. Ideal place. But for my career, sometimes I feel like walking.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=3559.0,3579.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/170","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: Yes, yes. It's part of your identity","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=3579.0,3581.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/171","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: For a long time. Yes, that's right. That's right. That's right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=3581.0,3584.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/172","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=3584.0,3584.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/173","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Yeah. Because when I get married, actually, I always feel some anxiety, anxiety awkwardness about the career.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=3584.0,3604.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/174","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It is because my husband work late, so I have to take care of my kids. And also that I went through the fertility treatment for years. So yeah, there's so many things I have to do. So kind of my career is sacrificed. I mean that I have to be the compromise. I have to do it, so, so before the coming to us, I had a really big quarrel with my husband because I have to take a leave. And so it's always, yeah, life work and life balance is really big to me. Big. Yeah, still big. There are so many. And because of the number of the working parents and also the success in the female workers, there's so many friends. I have so many friends who become so senior positions and also that they can work life balance well. Yeah, they have a daughter and also become the senior manager, whereas, yeah, managers. But it is really hard for me to do it because I am now a leave. Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=3604.0,3703.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/175","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: Well, for women it's harder to have that with career.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=3703.0,3707.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/176","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Yeah. Because","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=3707.0,3709.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/177","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: The children,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=3709.0,3710.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/178","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Yes, because of the children. The children,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=3710.0,3712.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/179","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: Yes. But that's wonderful. Being a mother is a job, full-time job too. Yeah. But I think it's really, but I empathize with the career aspect of being on leave.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=3712.0,3728.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/180","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Absolutely,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=3728.0,3728.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/181","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=3728.0,3729.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/182","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Yeah. And also, that I got offer of, yeah, when I was a 31 or 32, I got offered of the following assignments to the Argentine or India. But at the time I was 31st for 1-year-old, and I feel some pleasure to have a baby.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=3729.0,3752.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/183","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: Okay. Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=3752.0,3755.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/184","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: So, I have to decline it. But I think I had, because soon after my daughter is born, I, so I wanted to second baby, but I couldn't. So that's why I had a treatment. And yeah, it was successful, but it is okay. But I think the cause is different. I don't know. I'm not sure about the cow because of the age or et cetera. So usually the mid-thirties, we feel some anxiety about the future or sometimes dissatisfaction with the present situation. Because lucky, yeah, I had a boy, but, well, actually because of the hypertension, he was born with a weight of the 872. So little, like one third of the usual average gram. He really grown up well. He had yesterday's birthday party. So yeah, it's really precious. So I don't regret the decrying, the offer, but yeah, if I get back, I think that another career or something. 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So I think if I get chance to find a job, I think I can probably say that, oh, my advice is that, but I am still struggling it. So I think that everyone who are from the other countries, I think they can have anxiety about the career or sometimes compromise about the career because of the language disadvantage and also the knowledge. For example, I am familiar with the Japanese culture. I'm familiar with the Japanese liberal, but I am not familiar with the US liberal also, for example. So there's so many things that I have to get over. And also the compromise. Yeah. But I think, yeah, we have to accept it. So yeah, to be really, yeah, I think to be, don't care about anything so small. So really optimistic. Having the optimistic sense is really important. Yeah. Because yeah, some people are so depressed when they come from Japan to us because there are so many. I think the language barrier is really big. Everything crucial because I use English when I was in Japan, so I think I have some advantage, but I think there's so many people who doesn't, any English, who didn't any English in Japan, it is really difficult for them to get used to the life in us.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=3881.0,4016.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/187","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: Thank you so much. Is there anything you'd like to share or that it's been wonderful","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=4016.0,4021.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/188","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AH: Oh yes. Contribution? Yeah. Oh, thank you. Well, so I think the mindset and the way of thinking is really important. So I think because I had a really big fight with my husband when I comes to the cure and I have to take leave, but when I came here, it's good. When I come here, always we face or encounter the different world. So I think, and also it is really stimulating, and I think the stimulating give us energy and also the, yeah, that is, I can say the curiosity. So it is really good.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960#t=4021.0,4087.0"},{"id":"https://jclibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3515/collection_resources/163048/file/296960/transcript/86645/annotation/189","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD: Yeah. Well, that's wonderful. Well, thank you so much, Arisa. 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