Category: Japanese news
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Japanese News: kanji of the year 北
You probably read or heard about it if you follow the news about Japan: the kanji of the year 今年の漢字 is officially 北・きた. Link to the NHK article on the subject. The 今年の漢字 is a kanji chosen at the end of each year by the Japanese kanji proficiency society 日本漢字能力検定協会 to represent the year that is […]
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Japanese News: Emperor Akihito will retire on April, 30th 2019
You may have heard that a date was finally set last week for the abdication of Emperor Akihito. I think it is time for me to try reading political articles, but I will start with a very short one. Link to the article. (😲😨😱 As I check this link again, I realise that they completely […]
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Japanese News: 「九十歳。何がめでたい」
I have found an interesting article this morning. Published on Asahi, the article’s title is 年間ベストセラー発表 １位は「九十歳。何がめでたい」. Link to the article The title would not have caught my attention if I hadn’t read recently an article about the “アラハン” (around hundred) phenomenon in Japan. I read about this in the magazine 일본어 저널, which is a […]
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Japanese News:
Today, I will study an article published on NHK News Web about the Zama 座間市 murder case in which Shiraishi Takahiro 白石隆浩 killed 9 people. In fact, I heard this report this morning, on the site NHK Radio News (report from the 24th November, 9:00 to 9:05). It appears that what the journalist said on the […]
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Japanese News: Tokyo Olympics countdown in Ginza
This is an article published on Asahi website yesterday evening about the Tokyo Olympics countdown clock. Link to the article I don’t know why the clock was unveiled yesterday, that is, 981 days before Tokyo Olympics. The article does not say whether this date was strategic or not. Anyway, let’s see what words I can […]
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Japanese News: Looking for suicide partner on Twitter
You probably have heard of Takahiro Shiraishi and the murder case that stroke Japan this week. Takahiro Shiraishi killed 9 people, among whom persons who were looking for a suicide partner on Twitter. Far from committing suicide with his victims, he killed them and hid their bodies in his apartment. Today’s news article is a […]
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Japanese News: Animal Crossing coming to mobile phone
In this post, I am studying the video where Nintendo announced and presented its new game Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp.
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Japanese news: 岩合光昭の世界ネコ歩きin theatres
Friday’s article news! Today, I am studying an article about the release of the film 「劇場版 世界ネコ歩き」.
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Japanese news: on natto, vitamin K and femur fractures
I found an intriguing article today on the Asahi website. The title of the article is : 中高年の骨折は「西高東低」 原因は不明、納豆が関係か. 骨折・こっせつ fracture of a bone The title says that concerning bone fractures of middle-aged and elderly persons, it is “high in the West and low in the East”. Even if the reason for this difference is […]
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Japanese news: カズオ・イシグロ received the ノーベル文学賞
For today’s news article, I have selected a short and easy one. I still don’t feel confident in reading long articles or articles about politics, I fear they might be discouraging… Anyway, there is a subject that interests me this week: the British writer Kazuo Ishiguro カズオ・イシグロ receiving the Nobel Prize ノーベル文学賞. Link to the […]
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