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Keep making efforts of growing up with ambition

The soccer coach for Japan's national team, Alberto Zaccheroni says 「Keeping the status quo is the beginning of the decline. If you a...
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Apr 28th 2013 01:47

Similar sayings in Japanese and English

一石二鳥(Ittusekinicyou) is Japanese saying , whose meaning is to gain two advantages by one act. The meaning of the kanji of this saying is ...
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Mar 24th 2013 03:20

Chubu area

Chubu area(中部地方) is located on the midst of Japanese islands, and the area is sandwitched between The Pacific Ocean in south and The Japa...
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Feb 10th 2013 00:54 Japan area mountain Fuji

Unity of writing styli in Japanese

I think it is better that writing style in Japanese is unified in a journal. Japanese writing style has two kinds . One is normal sentenc...
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Jan 13th 2013 00:46 Japanese writing style unity

Japanese year-end and New Year start

I write about Japanese year-end and New Year start. 31th December is called "Oomisoka" 「大晦日(おおみそか)」 in Japan. Japanese eat soba...
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Dec 23rd 2012 01:12 year-end new year food

This year was an election year after all

I wrote on my journal in lang-8 at brginning of this year that this year is an election year. This is because elections would be hold in ...
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Nov 25th 2012 00:28 election world leader president

Memory trick of kanji

Kanji is used on Japanese language. Kanji is important for studying Japanese language but kanji may be a little difficult. So I talk abou...
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Oct 14th 2012 00:59 Japanese learner memory trick

Japanese language has three different forms of writting

Japanese language has three different forms of writting. These are kanji, hiragana and katakana. You may feel Japanese language is diffic...
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Sep 16th 2012 00:34 Japanese forms writting kanji

Most Japanese like soybeans

Most Japanese like soybeans. Japanese typical seasonings, Syouyu(しょう油)and Miso(味噌) are made from soybeans. Popular Japanese foods, Toufu(...
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Aug 11th 2012 23:53 Japanese food soybean like

Do you like green tea with some sugar ?

I read an article recentry. There was written that Japanese famous canned green tea 「お~いお茶」 is popular in Silicon Valley in America. They...
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Jul 15th 2012 00:27 Japanese green tea drink

A Unique Auxiliary verb 「そうだ」

Do you know the difference of the next two Japanese sentence's meaning? The sentences are「雨が降りそうだ。」 and 「雨が降るそうだ。」. 「雨が降りそうだ。」 is ...
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Jun 30th 2012 23:17 Japanese auxiliary verb そうだ

One of the greatest movie director, Kurosawa Akira

If you watch Japanese movies, I recommend movies of Kurosawa Akira. He is the most greatest movie director in Japan and one of them in th...
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Jun 10th 2012 00:18 Japanese movie director great

How important eating foods is !

Recently the inside of my mouth was injured, so I couldn't eat foods for three days. I had passed hard three days because I had never...
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May 20th 2012 00:12 eating foods important thank

Which country's cooking do you like most ?

The Korean goverment office which deals with foods did a search to know the rating about world's cooking because they want to know ...
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Apr 29th 2012 00:28 Japan cooking food world

Japanese unique foods

I will introduce some Japanese unique foods. Those are Umeboshi(梅干), Natto(納豆) and Wasabi(わさび).Umeboshi is a food which the Japanese pick...
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Apr 15th 2012 00:38 Japanese food unique taste

One story of someone's rescue by a tweet from London

I will introduce one story of someone's rescue in big earthquake which occurred in Japan on March 11th of last year. It was made by o...
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Mar 31st 2012 23:26 Japan rescue story tweet

Today is a year later day after a big earthquak which damaged Touhoku(東北) area in Japan

A year ago at 2:56 p.m. this afternoon, a big earthquake of which the epicenter is the coast on Miyagi(宮城) prefecture occured. Its Magnit...
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Mar 11th 2012 01:23 Japan Japanese earthquake Touhoku

Famous Japanese foods

I will introduce some famous Japanese foods. I introduced sushi previous entry, so this time is tenpura (てんぷら)、soba (そば) , sashimi (刺身)、o...
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Feb 26th 2012 00:35 Japanese Japan famous foods

Japanese food, sushi(寿司)

I will introduce Japanese foods. First of all, Sushi. Sushi is a representative Japanese food and most famous Japanese food in the world....
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Feb 12th 2012 00:34 Japan food sushi 寿司

Kantou (関東) area and Japan's capital Tokyo

There are six prefectures and a capital in Kantou(関東) area. The prefectures are Ibaragi(茨城), Tochigi(栃木), Gunma(群馬), Saitama(埼玉), Chiba(千...
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Jan 29th 2012 01:01 Japan Kantou area capital
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