Over the years, the Japanese language has been called many things: inscrutably ambiguous, frustratingly vague and positively untranslatable.
But such pernicious accusations are about to be laid to rest once and for all.
The government of Japan, no less, is intent on demonstrating that just because some Japanese people don't mean what they mean, it doesn't mean they don't mean business, if you get my meaning.
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