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You still need to know your ABCs if you're living in Japan
by Hannah Kunert
Written Japanese has three different scripts — hiragana, katakana and kanji — so you wouldn’t think there’d be room for any more. But you’d be wrong.
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Finding the best way to chill out with the verb 'ochitsuku'
by Akemi Tanahashi and Hitomi Tashiro
There are many ways to use the verb 落(お)ち着(つ)く, which means to calm down, relax and be comfortable.
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Japanese surnames: Among the usual suspects, you're bound to find some curveballs
by Peter Backhaus
How many Japanese surnames are there anyway? It's a tricky question, because the total depends on how you decide to count them.
Bilingual Apr 30, 2018
Using the internet to dig up some basics in Japanese
by Mark Schreiber
Once, many, many years ago, I found a rail pass someone left behind next to a public pay phone in Hamamatsucho Station in Tokyo's Minato Ward. Before handing in the pass into the stationmaster's office for deposit in the お忘れ物承り所 (o-wasuremono uketamawari-jo, lost-and-found department), I ...