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New Post: You may think you know what that word means in Japanese because you heard it in English. But don't be so sure! We dive into the most common "false friends" you're liable to encounter in your Japanese studies.
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"This Shiba Inu starts off as a babysitter, but ends up as more of a younger brother"
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Late Xmas gift for y’all: General Affairs Vice Minister Sugita Mio resigned two days ago after months of controversy regarding her discriminatory statements towards LGBTQ people, indigenous people, Koreans, and…well, just about everyone except old powerful men.
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File under "next time, hire a damn translator": A Korean restaurant in Japan used Google Translate to render "irasshaimase" (welcome) into Korean. However, GT for some reason translated it into "please don't come", leading to accusations the business was anti-Korean 🙃
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Yeah, translucent-era tech was cool. What's even cooler is actually crediting @kazzykazycom for his highly-recognizable photography projects, especially when his profile literally says "▶︎Do not repost."
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This widely disseminated tweet is repeating the old saw that foreigners in Japan get a total of USD $900M in public assistance, so this is your regular reminder that this number is totally made up and no such official number is published by the Japanese government. twitter.com/martytaka777/s…
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“Maternity harassment” is rife among employers who use (abuse) Japan’s foreigner internship program. In October, a Filipino worker who became pregnant lost her shifts and was harassed to return to her country until she quit - a clear case of illegal discrimination.
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"Santa Claus drawn in ukiyo-e style.
The creation of Kawase Hasui, an ukiyo-e artist active during Taisho and Showa eras.
Can't get enough of the mismatched feeling of seeing Santa walking through a Japanese garden bearing presents."
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Annual reminder for those perhaps looking for a movie to watch this night that Kon Satoshi's Tokyo Godfathers is one of the best Christmas movies of all time.
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A mixed Brazilian-Japanese woman was told (very wrongly) by a city official in Anjo, Aichi Prefecture, that “public assistance isn’t available for foreigners”, she should “go back to her country “.
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While Japan boasts one of the highest adoption rates in the world, the majority of those don’t involve children at all, but rather adult men. As of 2017, a whopping 98% of all adoptions in Japan were of adult men. Japan makes it easy to adopt men, and not always for good reasons.
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A fairly understandable reaction to the deer in Nara.
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The walls of Shibuya’s “transparent toilet” are supposed to turn opaque when someone’s using it. But…they…don’t always do that. Apparently, a dip in temperature can harden the wall’s material and elongate transition time, leaving some doing their business in full public view.
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A most important secret hidden within the famed pirate symbol of mega-popular weekly manga magazine Shonen Jump: turn the pirate on his side, and he morphs into a young girl.
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"In the deep mountains, remote from anywhere, where not even the streetlights shine. Only this telephone box shone out; around it was only darkness."
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Another day, another relatively fact-free article claiming that young people in Japan are sick of jobs where the bosses are just! too! nice! They can’t flourish without discipline!! User @quzttro calls this “propaganda” to “make you think that shady companies are the norm.”
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At a press conference, former SDF soldier Gonoi Rina responded to five men from her unit being discharged for sexual harassment: “If I hadn’t spoken up under my real name, they’d have done it again. In my unit, sexual harassment was used as a form of communication.”
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Absolutely mental and creator-hostile. Wtaf. twitter.com/TwitterSupport…
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Voice actress Hirano Aya (Misa in DEATH NOTE) revealed that her work in anime has exposed her to death threats that required involving the cops. “I love helping make great works seen around the world. But it’s not healthy working in fear of my life due to a few fanatical fans.”
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A reason for the continued imagined association in Japan between tattooing culture and criminality are the long centuries of tattoos being used as brands for criminals. Below are tattoos used during the Edo-era to mark lawbreakers in various locales.
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Discount retailer Don Quixote says they’re changing their beloved character Donpen out for “Dohou-chan,” a faceless, soulless katakana “do” that has arms and legs for some reason. General reaction from users is, “why?” twitter.com/donki_donki/st…
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Architectural designer, model, & transgender woman Sari Kaede says she’s happy that more Japanese schools are allowing students to choose uniforms w/o gender restrictions - but says schools also need to create an environment where students can safely make such choices.
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Japanese nationalists are knicker-twisted lately that subway displays rotate languages, something that happens in virtually every country with immigrant populations. They’re more upset by Korean than English despite Japan having more Korean speakers, which is…telling.
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Akiyama Kiiro, the songwriter for My Hero Academia who was arrested for assaulting a woman in his home in Tokyo, will not face charges. Prosecutors declined to explain why.
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Shinkai Makoto’s new film SUZUME NO TOJIMARI depicts the amusement park Brazilian Park Washuzan Highland in Okayama Prefecture as abandoned - which doesn’t sit well w/ its operators. “Our park is bright & fun & a place of joy….No one who’s seen the movie has visited.”
The Japan you don’t learn about in anime. Staff account.