Last month, on April Fool's Day to be exact, I revealed some terms and expressions appearing in the forthcoming Japanese government publication, "The Dictionary of All-Too-True Japanese Words and Phrases." Actually, there is far more than meets the eye in this groundbreaking, earthy volume.
Some have called the Japanese language dishearteningly mysterious, deeply unfathomable and tantalizingly vague. Actually, there is some truth to these allegations made against an otherwise perfectly innocent tongue. But now that the Japanese government is on the brink of publishing "The Dictionary of All-Too-True Japanese Words and Phrases," the smoke screen of ambiguity will be blown away and this exotic vernacular, hitherto considered beyond foreign comprehension, will be accessible to anyone who has the odd 15 years free to master it.
Here are some additional all-too-true words and phrases for your Edo-fication.