Reserved Japanese VS very hot Taiwanese ~ OMIJIKA adventures skate desperately

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In the Journey to the West, Tang Sanzang and his party went to the West to learn from the scriptures. The future of this adventure is uncertain and dangerous. For Kono Endo, Mayo Ikeda and Hisumi Kono from Japan, Journey to the West is the best metaphor for them to come to Taiwan to learn lessons. "after stinky tofu, you still have to pinch your nose. You have to adapt to the taste in order to become a real Taiwanese." Taiwanese are very hot. They will be very enthusiastic to help you. However, it is also terrible to be angry all my life. "A lack of language does make life inconvenient, but I have been able to understand Chinese after living in Taiwan for a year." The adventure has not yet reached its end, and the trio continue to travel westward.

Kangzheng Endo (Photography / Liu Yixin)

Japan has strong organizational norms, while Taiwan's grassroots are strong.

The visit to Ilan also left a deep impression on Endo's wife, Mayo Ikeda. "Japan is relatively an organized society, such as promoting organic agriculture, and it is also regulated by the government one by one, who it can sell to, and how good the price is." it's a kind of top-down normative agriculture. " However, when I went to Shengou Village in Ilan at that time, I found that Taiwan's friendly and organic agriculture was very interesting. although the Taiwan government also had regulations, "in addition to following the laws and regulations, farmers scattered everywhere will also do a lot of ideas. Everyone wants to do more, and their spontaneity is very high. This kind of grass-roots approach to land is much different from Japan's top-down approach, and is greatly stimulated."

Taiwan has a deep history with Japan. Among them, the Ilan Prefecture History Museum even recorded that Kijiro Nishixiang, a former director of Ilan, whose father was Japan's famous hero during the Meiji Restoration, Nishiro, who came to live in Suao in Ilan to visit military intelligence, and even lived with local women and left an illegitimate son, Kono said. "when I came to Taiwan, I found a lot of Japan that I didn't know about. I found it from the starting point of domestic history." It turns out that there are some things not recorded in history textbooks, and it turns out that our ancestors did these things! Because these historical stories make me feel a little closer to the feelings of Taiwan. "

Taiwan has a strong human touch and a unique color.

"to me, going to Taiwan is not like going abroad. It's like going to a place next to Miyazaki. It's very emotional," Kono laughs. "Taiwanese and local people are very 'hot'. Taiwanese are usually very enthusiastic, and when they need help, they will help you feel at a loss and unexplainable friendliness. This will never happen in Japan, but it is also very scary to be angry."

And Meiyang Ikeda, who used to work in the design and fashion industry, also said that Taiwan has unique colors and human feelings. "I used to go to Tokyo, Paris, New York and so on. People in these places are more or less the same in color, expression and atmosphere. But Taiwan has unique characteristics, not only close to nature, but even a unique warm atmosphere. These are Taiwan's own colors, especially Taiwan's human touch. Help is super helpful, angry is also super angry. Japan has lost or never had such human feelings, and it is worth learning from Taiwan to make life warmer and richer. "

OMIJIKA, a studio for three, continues to promote Taiwanese culture.

This unique human touch of Taiwan melts Japan's formal style, and the studio OMIJIKA of the trio continues to promote Taiwan culture. Chen Yang Ikeda said that at the end of the one-year Taiwan school program, many participants felt that it was a pity that the activity was gone. These people formed a Taiwan gang, hoping to continue the Taiwan school and increase the momentum of civil society exchanges, so that there was a Taiwan cultural festival. As the first step in exchanges. Kono Kono also said, "in the process of participating in the Taiwan school, I came into contact with a lot of friends. In the past, I did not come into contact with so many interesting people at work. Through the process of communication, I gained confidence, and the connection between people produced an additional multiplication effect. It seems that nothing is impossible."

The power of heart-to-heart exchange also made the trio decide to continue to promote the Taiwan Cultural Festival 2.0 and 3.0. Kono Kono said, "although the plan is very tiring, the task has not yet been completed, and there are many things that cannot be put in this Taiwan cultural festival, so I hope it will continue." Chen Yang Ikeda said that this Taiwan cultural festival is still biased towards the Taipei show, which is what can be seen in Taipei, but the many enthusiastic people and the special taste of the countryside that we have seen in Taoyuan and Ilan in the past cannot be put in this time. I hope to show the characteristics outside Taipei next time.

Taiwan's inclusive heterogeneous culture stirs up different sparks.

"Culture actually means expanding the space of your imagination and seeing different worlds. Different cultures are not opposites and conflicts, but can be combined with each other to become a more complete culture." Endo points out that Japan has a reorganized history and single cultural integration, but on an island as small as Taiwan, there are Minnan, Hakka, aborigines, and mainlanders who retain their own diet, culture, religion, customs, and so on. Taiwan also has a corresponding positive response to actively promote these different cultures, "Japan tends to be the same as everyone else, not to show its characteristics."

As for the inclusiveness of different cultures, Ikeda also said, "these differences stimulate each other, creating diversity and inclusiveness, which is the greatest significance of culture and can stimulate you to appreciate different things." Kono said, "there will be a lot of unexpected chemical reactions between culture and culture shock, which is very anticipated."

Skate desperately on the adventure.

"the adventure ship has already left Hong Kong, and now we are skating desperately, probably in a mess. after moving to Taiwan, it is more like being in the center of the whirlpool, but where are we going to go?" Mayo Ikeda can't help but be confused, and as president Yasuhiro Endo sees this adventure as a journey to the West. "Taiwan is the West we must explore, connecting the two sides through exchanges to bring Taiwan's treasures back to Japan for exchange. Such a journey of excitement, adventure, and exchange is what I really want to do."

Are the couple of Kangzheng Endo and Mayo Ikeda in the center of the whirlpool still adapted to the life of emigration to Taiwan? "if you don't like stinky tofu, you must work hard. If you don't have to pinch your nose one day, you will be a real Taiwanese." Chen Yang Ikeda says with a smile that after emigrating to Taiwan, most of them encounter well-intentioned and positive things, and because Taiwanese are enthusiastic and friendly, they can quickly integrate into society, "except that people here don't obey traffic rules so much. I often feel my life is threatened." Endo Yashiro also said, "there is no particular inadaptability. In terms of language, although it is difficult to express in Chinese, listening has gradually improved."

After the interview, Kangzheng Endo hurriedly stuffed paper and pen into the big backpack, put on the young-style cap, picked up the backpack, went out to Chinese classes like ordinary students, and kept walking on the road of learning from the classics.

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