Asahi praised an Italian reporter, PIO D'EMILIA.
The Asahi newspaper picked up PIO D'EMILIA, who has stayed in Japan and is still reporting affairs after 3.11, even though many forei...
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Why “あなたのコップは事故で割られました。” is wrong?
あなたのコップは事故で割れました。(a)
あなたのコップは事故で割られました。(b) (The only difference is ら after 割.)
I think many learners know the difference and which is c...
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NHK reported that the Chinese Navy had shot to a Filipino ship.
According to NHK Evening News, the Chinese Navy this February fired a warning shot against a Filipino fishing boat; however, the Philippi...
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Mr. Kewpie Doll Replaced
According to the press, the spokesperson of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency of Japan, Nishiyama, whom you have been seeing on TV...
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Is the drama おひさま offensive to Americans?
The drama おひさま, now airing on NHK, is a program that shows the current generation about wars. 井上真央 (Inoue Mao) is the leading actress. Al...
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The Chinese government is a notch above the Japanese government.
The Japanese government recently protested China because a ship from the Chinese government did an oceanic survey in Japan’s Exclusive Ec...
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A Nikkei’s news flash surprised me.
A special, single news flash came to my smart phone from Nikkei. I thought what again happened in the Fukushima Plant. However, it said t...
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Tsunami Games
According to the press, children who were exposed to the tsunami during the time of the Great Earthquake now often play a tsunami game*, ...
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Mental Arithmetic 125×56
Although I am not sure how it will be useful in the future, this kind of training is popular among the top schoolchildren in Japan. They ...
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Beijing is very similar to North Korea.
According to Japanese press, a bulletin of the Chinese Forces, 解放軍報, recently wrote that Vietnam and the Philippines are greedy and 分不相応....
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Evernote for Win more improved.
This morning, Evernote for Windows had a minor updated. It has been improved, and it moves more quickly. Whenever you turn it into the fo...
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Another Lesson of the Postposition は and が (ほとんどスイカを食べません)
This is an example of using the postpositions は or が to make the structure of the sentence, though both virtually have the same meaning.
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“The main enemy” and “the most dangerous country” are very different.
According to today’s Nikkei, one third of the high and junior school students in South Korea consider that the main enemy (主敵) of (South)...
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You need to be careful of snatching, but not mugging, perhaps.
I learned people outside Japan are unlikely to use “purse snatching” and “mugging” differently. In Japan, street mugging is extremely rar...
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It will return home after 72 years’ absence.
According to Nikkei’s front page today, it is expected that a futures market for rice will open in Japan for the first time in 72 years. ...
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“Safety-First” in a Factory during WWII
People very often see a slogan, “Safety-First” (安全第一) in factories. It seems that the factory where human torpedoes were produced during ...
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Will the Chinese government accuse the Japanese government of lying?
According to the Japanese press, today, a ship from the Chinese government did an oceanic survey in Japan’s Exclusive Economic Zone off I...
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An electricity forecast was wrong.
Today was hot and is still hot. (今日は暑かったし，まだ暑い) “An electricity forecast” (denkiyoho), which shows how tight the demand and supply of ele...
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A Lesson of が and は (ビールは美味しかった)
I know many learners of Japanese are worried about how to use は and が properly. I do not have a special trick, but I can give you some st...
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Were sixty-nine spies working at the Fukushima Plant?
According to the press, TEPCO, the operator of the Fukushima Plant, are worried that it cannot find out who was working in the plant for ...
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