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Japan’s Lost Generation
Slain English Teacher This has been all over the news here in Japan. A British girl teaching English in Japan was found murdered in an apartment, buried in sand. According to reports, the teacher,...
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Food Dump
Natto A rather damning article on Japanese gullibility, vis-a-vis the natto diet fiasco from earlier this year. I recall that the whole incident arose when a tv show proclaimed that a twice-daily...
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A Little History
Japan stands by 1993 apology over WW2 sexual slavery Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso reassured Korean Foreign Minister Song Min-soon that Japan stood by its 1993 apology (made by then-Chief Cabinet...
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Japanese Underscore
Urgh. This Japanese keyboard on the MacBook Pro. Urgh. Took me ages to locate the dang underscore. Turns out to be just to the left of the shift key hidden at the bottom of the dotted box above the...
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Kushinobo
Went to this interesting skewer restaurant tonight. Everything was on skewers and we did the degustion menu which was like 10 sticks o’stuff and was surprisingly nice and filling. Fascinating what...
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Lernin' the Speak
I’ve been researching places to study Japanese and decided upon AJALT (Association for Japanese-Language Teaching) located near Kamiyacho station on the Hibiya line. They are the ones that publish the...
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First Japanese Class
So, I’m going to AjALT ((ajaruto) – the school that made the Japanese for Busy People series of books) and started yesterday for their ‘Beginner Foundation’ course. It’s MWF with a specific teacher for...
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iKnow!
Some folks are asking what this whole iknow thing is about as I apparently set it up to link with Facebook/Twitter when I created my account, so I thought I’d put a a thingy about it here. iKnow! (or...
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Doggies
The cutest most telling thing about people happened on the way to the station yesterday … picture Japanese every 5-6 feet in front and behind you … maybe 7 of them in each direction … on the left hand...
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Learning Japanese via ‘manga’
Check out a new site to help you understand/learn that pesky Japanese slang! Japanese in Anime & Manga. “Manga” comic books and “anime” films are building up interest around the world in learning...
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