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お盆休みIt's O-Bon season in Japan. This is the time of year when souls of the dead are said to return to the family home, and, traditionally, people return to the family home to pray for those souls' repose.
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The Inaccuracy of Online Translation Sites
Have you ever tried translating a foreign language site using something like babelfish or the Google translator? Well if you had tried using them then I am sure you have already noticed the complete inaccuracy of these ...
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Who exactly is ripping off whom?
Ran across some strange happenings in webdom the other day, something that really has us scratching our heads over here at the International JAPUNDIT Media Complex.
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An infuriated South Korea: Is this how to conduct diplomacy with neighbors?
WE'VE ALL KNOWN people who just can't get along with anybody. They always seem to be embroiled in an overblown feud over some petty issue with a neighbor or coworker. They tend to have frequent misunderstandings...
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Louisiana School Board Considers English-Only Grad Speeches
Vietnamese students provoke potential policy nIn Louisiana's Terrebonne Parish, Ellender Memorial High School co-valedictorians and cousins Hue and Cindy Vo delivered graduation speeches on May 19, unaware that...
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Citing low viewership, cable operator Comcast has pulled the plug on iaTV, formerly ImaginAsian TV, in San Francisco as of July 22.nThe Asian American network will still be carried on cable systems across the U.S....
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Animation Runner Kuromi (a J!-ENT Anime DVD Review)
"An enjoyable parody of the anime industry, 'Animation Runner Kuromi' is an enjoyable OAV featured with a lot of laughs plus a lot of special features to make this OAV definitely worth owning!"
Talkman Travel Helps PSP Owners Pick Up Foreigners This Thursday
Japanese gamers have had access to the Talkman translation software on their PSPs for close to three years now. Even the Euros got their fix of Talkman! North Americans are finally getting it this ....
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Establishing Trust with the Chinese
Longtime Washington and US government China policy analysts Richard C. Bush and Jeff Bader are out with an all-too Establishment piece that seems to live in its own dreamworld on US-China relations, calling on Obama and ....
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Japanese For Japanese Language
It's useful when learning any language to know the words that describe the grammar and make-up of the target language. Teachers of other languages to Japanese students may benefit from knowing certain linguistic....
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Book collector Yuan Shang enjoys accumulating foreign language dictionaries. "By reading dictionaries," he says, "we can see how western ideas were accepted by the Chinese people."
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How does China Define Terrorism?
When I read about the bus explosions in Kuming on this past Monday I was a little surprised that the local police weren't call it terrorism. I don't believe that it was done by anyone with a political agenda.
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More on the Busan - Takeshima paradigm
HERE ARE THE Joongang Daily's headlines for today's lead story on its Internet edition:nU.S. agency joins fray over DokdonChanging its designation of islets indicates sovereignty is in dispute...
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Japanese and South Korean editorials on Takeshima: A comparison
ONE POINT I often try to make here is that the Japanese media is not as biased in a nationalistic sense as some people claim. Bias, as with beauty, is in the (biased) eye of the beholder, but I think the tone of the ...
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In a recent manga review by Cristoph Mark for the Daily Yomiuri, Mark wrote, "Every year, thousands of English-speakers flock to Japan to teach their native language, many of them on the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program.
The popularity of a certain loan word might be a sign that many people aren't living very relaxing lives....
Japan is a great country, with a lot to offer both short-term visitors and tourists as well as people like me, who like the place so much we put down permanent roots. But still, Japan is far from perfect, and there are ...
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Bullshit: Made-Up Japanese Sex Stories
The good news: Everything you ever read about the sexual perversities of the Japanese may still by true. The bad: If you read it in the "WaiWai" column of the Mainichi Daily News, it probably isn't.
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