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Why does "Sumimasen" mean "thank you"?

"Sumimasen (すみません）" in Japanese has two meanings: "I'm sorry" and "thank you" in English. It meant &q...
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Feb 26th 2011 12:17
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I Moved to Tokyo

I moved to Tokyo this Tuesday. I had lived in Kyoto just for a year. Kyoto is a beautiful city and a nice place to live in, but I got...
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Feb 24th 2011 11:20
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The posion of Tennō

I wrote some customs about the Tennō in my previous entry. Although "Tennō" is often translated as "Emperor of Japan&qu...
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Feb 19th 2011 12:13
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How to call Tennō

In Japan, it sometimes becomes ideological to talk about Tennō (the Emperor of Japan. But I don't think that "Emperor" is ...
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Feb 17th 2011 11:20
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What is Shibui

In my previous entry, I translated some sentences into English, but one word is difficult to translate. It is "渋い（shibui)" in ...
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Feb 15th 2011 12:04
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Enthusiasts' psychology

Enthusiasts' psychology is hard to understand fully for other persons who have no interest in the genre. I found this page yesterd...
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Feb 12th 2011 13:03
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Eureka!

I wrote about the episode of Newton's apple in my previous entry. But I like Archimedes' episode in which he discovered Archimed...
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Feb 10th 2011 11:22
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Isaac Newton and an Apple

Isaac Newton found the law of universal gravitation when he watched an apple falling. This episode is well-known but is said to be a m...
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Feb 08th 2011 10:42
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Ruins Clocks

This page has collected lots of photos of clocks in ruins. Although many of them has already stopped, they still show time (Japan time) ...
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Feb 01st 2011 11:07