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Japan Times
LIFE / Language / WELL SAID
Mar 20, 2017
Want the cat to lend a paw?: handy Japanese phrases with 'te'
Introduce some phrases and idioms using the noun u624b (u3066, hand).
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Mar 13, 2017
Toto rolls out droll toilet humor with a whiff of class
Sit back and relax as this week's Bilingual column splashes on the results of Toto's 2016 Toilet Senryu Contest.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / WELL SAID
Mar 13, 2017
Old, past it, over the hill: expressing aging and old stuff in Japanese
Introduce some Japanese words and phrases that translate to 'old' in English.
LIFE / Language / COMMUNICATION CUES
Mar 13, 2017
Polish woman becomes shogi queen
A Polish woman has become the first foreign female professional shogi player after a victory last month boosted her ranking.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Mar 6, 2017
In defense of the older Japanese man (because someone's got to do it)
Men over 35 — better known as 'ojisan' or the more derogatory 'ossan' — are lumped together in a cold, lonely place where they have little choice but to huddle together for warmth.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language
Mar 6, 2017
Belly nice — and nasty: the many uses of 'hara' in Japanese
Introduce a wide range of phrases using the noun u8179 (u306fu3089, belly).
Japan Times
LIFE / Language
Mar 6, 2017
Brussels' Manneken Pis gets his own museum
Sample newspaper article
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Feb 27, 2017
Folding and unfolding Japan's ubiquitous 'tatami words'
Japanese has this amazingly amazing capacity to form words through the simple process of repetition, or what linguists call reduplication.
LIFE / Language / WELL SAID
Feb 27, 2017
Falling in line and expressing change with 'shitagatte'
Introducing the phrase Xu306bu5f93(u3057u305fu304c)u3063u3066 (following/in line with X) and its related expressions.
LIFE / Language / COMMUNICATION CUES
Feb 27, 2017
Queen Elizabeth II marks record 65 years on throne
Queen Elizabeth II has become the first British monarch to reach the milestone of 65 years on the throne.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Feb 20, 2017
Investing big but wisely in Japanese study aids can reap dividends
An expensive dictionary, a big TV — and a wedding ring: just three of the big purchases that could give your Japanese a lift.
LIFE / Language / COMMUNICATION CUES
Feb 20, 2017
Divorcee marriages hit historic high
About 1 in 4 marriages in the nation involved a divorced person in 2015, the highest ratio since 1952, the earliest year for which data is available.
LIFE / Language / WELL SAID
Feb 20, 2017
Be careful not to mix up your 'hagemu' with your 'hageru'
Introducing some verbs that sound similar but have very different meanings.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Feb 13, 2017
The Japanese and love — more complicated than you think
The Japanese suck at this thing called love, and no amount of Valentine's Day chocolate is going to fix that.
LIFE / Language / WELL SAID
Feb 13, 2017
Adding 'ao,' the blue that can also be green, to your Japanese linguistic palette
Introducing the noun u9752 (u3042u304a), meaning blue, and its related expressions.
LIFE / Language / COMMUNICATION CUES
Feb 13, 2017
Kisenosato becomes Japan's 72nd yokozuna
Kisenosato has been officially promoted to the position of 72nd grand champion in sumo history.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Feb 6, 2017
Some fiendishly complex archaic kanji just won't die
Even in the 21st century, a whole bunch of difficult, nonstandard and archaic kanji don't appear to be in any danger of being phased out.
LIFE / Language / WELL SAID
Feb 6, 2017
Do the whole shebang and take it to the limit with 'kiru'
Introducing the verb u5207(u304d)u308b and its related expressions.
LIFE / Language / COMMUNICATION CUES
Feb 6, 2017
Eight men hold half of the world's wealth, Oxfam study says
Just eight superrich men own as much wealth as the 3.6 billion people who make up the poorest half of the world's population, according to an analysis by Oxfam.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Jan 30, 2017
A woman's lowly place in Japan, mirrored in its language
Given that so many demeaning and negative words related to women endure, is it any surprise that sexism is still rife in Japan?
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Longform

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