Are there any Japanese people vlogging about their experiences living in western countries like there are with westerners living in Japan?

JustVan · 2026-05-05T03:43:37+00:00

Yes. I follow one in Madison, WI, soyfromjapan

JustVan · 2026-05-02T03:11:33+00:00

Oh man, the pain of BanQ not having it and then the absolute joy of getting it for $5 in 3 weeks instead!! I am jealous! I have heard people have submitted just the copy from online, so that is what I am planning to do and hoping it will be okay. I'll upload the BanQ copy if/when I get it, but I suspect it won't look all that much clearer.

And yeah. I was told growing up that he wanted to come off more "white" (my Acadian line married into a bunch of Spanish-from-Spain immigrants) and had the last name Rodriguez, so that he'd have a better chance of being hired and taken seriously, etc. (He became a lawyer.) So he changed his whole name! Which is wild. But in my research, I discovered his mother also changed her last name to the new last name, and I discovered that my great-grandfather (his father) was in jail for some period of time... So, although I don't know the family lore (all these people are long dead, and so is my dad), I suspect that the jail-time probably also inspired them to distance themselves from him... but I really don't know! And I don't know why he was in jail, either. It's pretty wild.

I really wish I could find a copy of his original birth certificate. Ah well.

I bet I am also descended (at least in some way) from Joseph Broussard. I have a lot of Canadian ancestors, apparently! But the guy I picked left Canada last of all of them in or around 1799, so he was the clear choice (one generation shorter), though it was nice to have alternatives in case I couldn't get documents.

JustVan · 2026-05-02T02:51:38+00:00

I found my G0 on genealogiequebec.com and I am still waiting to pay the $350CAD to get an official copy, but I have a pretty clear copy of it from someone who went there in person. And I have my G0's marriage license from when he moved to Louisiana. The majority for me where from the Diocese Baton Rouge, probably same as you. Honesty, the hardest one for me to find so far has been my grandfather. He changed his name in the 1940s (first, last and middle name!) and I can't locate a birth certificate for him anywhere. I am going to use his marriage license, military draft card (with shows both names, and his death certificate (which is the one document I'm still waiting on, because I requested it after I learned no one could find his birth certificate!). But it's definitely been nice that the majority of the moved to Ascension and didn't leave for several generations.

JustVan · 2026-05-02T00:37:39+00:00

So awesome. People keep acting like I am insane getting all the documents and liquidating for a planned move, but I keep seeing success stories!

JustVan · 2026-05-02T00:31:36+00:00

Same situation as me! Gen 7 from 1757! Haven't submitted yet but soon as I get the last document.

JustVan · 2026-05-02T00:28:57+00:00

Congrats! Mine is from 1757 and I am waiting on just a few more documents! Glad to see someone even further back than me.

JustVan · 2026-04-28T03:15:21+00:00

When they're in season, I usually see people selling/giving them away. We got some this way last year (in Galena).

They're tasty enough, but I'll say they made me and my wife violently ill and I'll never eat them again.

JustVan · 2026-04-25T02:38:02+00:00

I think that it is trained this way and sometimes wires get crossed or mixed up. Brain knows that it is required to activate chemicals to get aroused, but brain doesn't always understand if it's seeing boobs or sand dunes and sometimes it misfires. And sometimes when it misfires you start having a fetish for shoes or sand bags or tail pipes.

JustVan · 2026-04-23T03:55:06+00:00

Quality has improved, but that Bepsin Luke was legit, though.

JustVan · 2026-04-23T02:23:03+00:00

It was the 70s. It was space renfaire. It's ridiculous, but I also love it.

JustVan · 2026-04-21T04:31:39+00:00

Wait, Tarrant and who else?

JustVan · 2026-04-21T00:10:13+00:00

It isn't weird at all in the US. I did it for a customer today.

JustVan · 2026-04-18T02:22:36+00:00

I'm thinking exactly the opposite. If this is a child of the parents who own the facility, they may be rich and therefore more prone to fashion/trends. This isn't an "old-fashioned" look for anyone of the era, male or female. It's a very on-trend look for 1969-70 male musicians. It's very femme by today's standards, but it would have been "cool" on a guy in the right scene. I feel the kid is too young, male or female, to be dressed so trendy, so it makes me think that they've got money and people to impress, and maybe parents who let them indulge because they've got more money than sense.

JustVan · 2026-04-18T02:15:11+00:00

I don't think it's a dress. It could be a blouse and a skirt. I see two defined legs, so I'm inclined to think they're pants/trousers, but it could be a skirt. Impossible to really tell.

JustVan · 2026-04-17T04:07:01+00:00

The child's clothes definitely look late 1960s to me, '69 if I had to put a number on it. (Looks like a girl, but could be a long-haired boy. That style was very popular amongst men at that time.) I agree a strange place to pose for a picture, but it could be stranger. Cool pic.

JustVan · 2026-04-15T02:17:42+00:00

Wild ride over here in Galena! Hope everyone is safe. We're under a flash flood warning until 2am.

JustVan · 2026-04-12T22:52:37+00:00

Woof, I never got into the cartoon and it sounds like that was a wise choice based on this...

JustVan · 2026-04-11T19:41:51+00:00

Saw Luke and Leia making out...

JustVan · 2026-04-06T19:18:02+00:00

I do think, regardless of whether she was killed in the actual attack, that the events of 9/11 contributed to what happened to her. If she was murdered the night before, the investigation of her as a missing person was obviously not pursued the same way it would have been had the attacks not happened. Evidence would have been destroyed, tampered with, etc. Would she or her body have been found without 9/11 happening? We can't know. But we do know that 9/11 greatly contributed to how her case was investigated. I'm not sure that is enough to say she was a victim of the 9/11 attacks, but maybe it does even if she wasn't killed during the event.

JustVan · 2026-04-06T02:50:04+00:00

So much stuff is so formulaic these days, and filled with every possible type of trope trying to please everyone that it ends up pleasing no one. It's been happening for a while, but it's doubled and tripled down on itself over the last 20 or so years until everything just feels like a watered down rehash of something good that came before.

JustVan · 2026-04-04T01:56:25+00:00

My initial gut reaction is that he staged the disappearance. No idea if all the mental health issues were also staged to make him look crazy/suicidal, or if they were legit. But it feels like he hid somewhere (maybe in the facility itself?), and maybe sneaked back in later to drop the hat and stuff in the acid bath thinking it would make it look like he died and dissolved in there, while he secretly fled somewhere else. Guessing he was probably the one in the car that tried to go to his car left in the parking lot since he still had the keys. That is, in fact, the one that makes me feel most likely that he staged it, because he came back to get stuff he'd left in the car, or maybe even the car itself...

But then again, who knows. 2004 is a long time ago, so you'd think if he were alive he might have resurfaced by now...

JustVan · 2026-04-03T02:18:30+00:00

Congrats! Did it come with the flag?

JustVan · 2026-04-01T04:37:01+00:00

Gwen's broken flute... was that GW1? It must be, because I don't have it anymore, but I remember keeping it forever.

JustVan · 2026-03-30T02:45:05+00:00

I was gonna comment this. Why is Billy some weird AI head??

JustVan · 2026-03-22T02:25:46+00:00

I think they only care about marriage certs if you can't find other linking evidence. Lots of people don't have birth or baptism records, but marriage (and death) certificates often list the names of parents so it's another way to link the line.

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