……ので，見つけました。 The Cause and Effect Relationship
日記にどんなことを書こうか困っていたので、こんな話題を見つけました。(a)
This is an interesting mistake. Moreover, many natives somehow passed over it. The writer may ha...
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Yamaha has an advantage that others do not have in China.
The top story in today’s Nikkei evening edition was that Yamaha and other Japanese companies are finding a new market in the education in...
“South China Sea is the core benefit of China”, the same as Taiwan and Tibet.
Although I do not know the real value of the news, today’s Asahi contained a remark by the top executives of the Chinese Forces, who said...
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The Chinese government requested the Vietnamese government.
Yesterday (the 5th), people against China marched in Vietnam. According to the press, the Chinese government in advance requested the Vie...
The Fukushima 50 carry the Japan’s national flag given from the US.
TEPCO released pictures of the headquarters at the Fukushima Daiichi Plant.
http://sankei.jp.msn.com/affairs/photos/110605/dst1106052019...
NHK News everyday brings out a kindergarten child.
A beautiful woman appears ont the NHK Evening News towards the end of the program. She is a weather girl. No...she is a certificated weat...
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[tips] みんな (みんなで温泉卵を食べた)
I went to Shirahama with my friends. We ate 温泉卵.
友達と白浜に行った。私たちは温泉卵を食べた。
It would be improved as follows.
友達と白浜に行った。みんなで温泉卵を食べた。
Thi...
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What is the difference of “a president of a company” and “a company president”?
When I wanted to talk about a particular but imaginary person, who is a president of a company and I began to write “A president of a com...
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Does 思うと思う make you confused?
If you hear that somebody says 「そう思うと思う。」(this is a full sentence.), are you confused? This is usually very clear for Japanese speakers, ...
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発電ロボ in Downtown Tokyo
Almost all Japanese people would wonder what is “発電ロボ” (power generation robots) if they hear of it. Tokyo Police are said to begin to us...
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[tips] 書かなかった／書いていない／まだ書いていない
If you have not yet replied to letters to you and you say you are sorry but you have properly read them:
返事を○○けど，ちゃんと読んでいます。
書かなかった...
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If “to be killed in a war” were an intransitive verb:
In Japanese, “killed in action” is 戦死 and “to be killed in a war” is “戦死する”, which is an intransitive verb. Would it* sound to English sp...
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Here is a good translation of Putin’s remark.
According to CNN, Putin said, “We can’t poison our people for the sake of some spirit.” Asahi translated it (maybe) from Russian into:
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People can predict something for fall of next year, but can't for one month hence.
According to Nikkei (online), next year's meeting of the General Assembly Meeting of IMF will be held in Tokyo, which is the first ti...
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A design flaw seemed to cause the explosion at the Fukushima Daiichi Plant.
According to the Asahi newspaper (today's top story on the front page), the explosion at the Fukushima Daiichi Plant was highly proba...
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[tips] 分かる vs. 理解する
Well, divisortheory gave me the best explanation. See comments at the lower part. Non-native speakers are always the best teachers of nat...
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蚊帳の外 The Case of One President
If a company president says that he is not responsible for certain important decisions because the chairperson made those decisions witho...
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村から縄付きを出す Futaba city give up accepting contributions.
I just heard of strange news about the earthquake and the incident of the Fukushima Daiichi Plant. The government of Futaba-cho is said t...
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Sports clubs are getting older.
According to today’s Nikkei, sports clubs are getting older, as are public gardens. In the 1980’s, 70% of the members were said to be in ...
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He clearly refused to resign, but ...
Yesterday at noon I was surprised when PM Kan refused to resign ― I was watching his live speech on TV. He refused, but NHK made a quick ...
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