satoshi's entry (8)
I heard there was no pirate copies of the latest 涼宮ハルヒ.
According to today’s Nikkei, the copyright holders of the novel “Haruhi Suzumiya” have not yet discovered pirate editions in Chinese of t...
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Do Kansai people speak fast?
Many people in Japan think that people in Osaka and other Kansai areas speak fast. Experts, however, say that is not true. According to t...
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Taiwan and Japan Alliance against Korea
A reporter wrote on Nikkei about Terry Gou (郭台銘), the founder and CEO of Hon Hai (鴻海), the manufacture of iPad, etc. According to the rep...
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If you use ら抜き言葉, the Establishment will see you as useless members of society.
Today, an agency of the Japanese government released an annual survey report about the Japanese language. NHK news had a young linguist s...
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Did they intend to play a prank?
According to the press, there were three students at the University of Tokyo who this month replaced saddles of bicycles parked in the ca...
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植村花菜 (Uemura Kana) in Nashville
NHK aired a program this night in which 植村花菜 (Uemura Kana), who wrote and sang “Toilet no Kamisama” (トイレの神様), went to Nashville and sang ...
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Have you watched language programs on NHK?
NHK is airing quite a lot of learning programs on various languages (basically for Japanese people), though I don’t think the number of t...
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I came across an interesting ad in today’s papers.
I came across an interesting ad in several of today’s newspapers in Japan. (I attached one. They are the same.)
The man is General of ...
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