nyc and the japanese invasion
An interesting article in the Sunday NYT. Read it and you can bone up on cool, new phrases - “In the East Village on any given weekend night, throngs of such Japanese crowd the restaurants known as izakaya that have sprung up on and around St. Marks Place, in an enclave sometimes called Little Tokyo. With red paper lanterns and cacophonous dins, the restaurants serve delectables like raw liver sashimi and grilled rice balls, to tables of expatriates known in Japan as “freeters�? (a combination of free and the German word for worker, arbeiter), or “NEETs�? (Not in Education, Employment or Training).” That officially makes me a NEET.
