Japanese about Russia and Russian

• The Japanese have about Russia and Russian

"My Planet" continues the project "The Russian and Russian". We asked the residents of Denmark and the United Kingdom, India and Thailand, Italy and Greenland and many other countries about what they think about Russia. At this time, we talk with the residents of the rising sun.

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- Matryoshka, a vast territory, field cap. Cap we have seen in some film - remembered form. A matryoshka is very cute! (Takako and Ayumi, waitress in a coffee shop)

Japanese about Russia and Russian

- It's cold. Vodka. Beautiful girls. In general, I never specifically Russia was not interested in it first comes to mind almost anyone. (Musida Yoshino, flower shop owner)

Japanese about Russia and Russian

- Caviar, mammoths, permafrost. Why mammoths? Did not the mammoths from Russia? (Yoshio Asano, the bus driver)

Japanese about Russia and Russian

- Cheburashka! Yuri Norstein. Ilya Kabakov. Besides Kabakov in contemporary Russian art, I know of very few people. Another Petrov, oil on glass animation, very time-consuming. Somehow, it seemed that the only Russian capable of such perseverance. (Murakami Hiroshi, media artist)

Japanese about Russia and Russian

- Matryoshka, Gorbachev ... something third? Nothing really comes to mind. Russian, maybe? BUT! Borscht! (Sasagawa Minoki, housewife)

Japanese about Russia and Russian

- The film "Doctor Zhivago" - revised, very good film several times. Tolstoy, the Kremlin. (Ryuichi Kawamura, the owner cafe)

Japanese about Russia and Russian

- blonde, tall people and tango, of course! In Russia we should be fine to dance tango - you have it all so high! (Chihiro and Haruka dancer)

Japanese about Russia and Russian

- Pies, Moscow, the Kuril Islands. - Have you been in Moscow? - No, it was not, but Moscow immediately comes to mind. And pies in general we all know, although almost no one tried. (Yamada Keyske artist manga)

Japanese about Russia and Russian

- Borscht! Nadia Comaneci. - She's Romanian. - Yes? And I thought, Russian. And Shevchenko, football player? - Ukrainian. - Then I dont know. Dolls, that's what! (Ivasi Dzyunchi, the seller butcher)

Japanese about Russia and Russian

- Putin, Gorbachev ... it's what I remember from the newspapers and television. What else? Potatoes! You have, it seems to me all the time to eat potatoes as we Fig. (Takao Shimizu, the owner of the mobile Yakisoba-shop)

Japanese about Russia and Russian

- Rachmaninov - I love him very much. Figure skating. Olympics. At the Winter Olympics in Sochi, you do a lot of medals took - we looked. We, too, figure skating is becoming popular. (Sengoku Koyama, an assistant in a Buddhist temple)

Japanese about Russia and Russian

- the USSR, vodka, Russian Roulette. I worked as a bartender for a long time, from about the Russian roulette learned, I do not remember. But impressed. (Katsuro Hosono, sommeliers)

Japanese about Russia and Russian

- A huge country! The size of your territory for me simply inconceivable - because Japan is quite small in comparison with Russia. Nesting dolls and soup! Nesting dolls are very cute, a bit like our dolls kokesi. A veritable soup I did not eat, we are hard to find it. (Nabetani Mika, student)

Japanese about Russia and Russian

- Russian flag. Vodka. Coldly. I know about Russia is very small - but the most common things do not come to mind. (Matsuo Sato works in the shop masu - traditional Japanese wooden cups of sake)

Japanese about Russia and Russian

- Russian-Japanese War, translators. Translators have been around a lot. In general, I do not remember, I was 93 years so many things have been ... (Nohara Funchyu, retired)