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Month: April 2021

Japanese Essay Tokyo Tower

A Japanese essay read in Japanese and English. The essay by, Inazo Inamoto, uses Tokyo Tower to examine the difference between seeing from a far and getting up close, and argues that getting up close wins.
In today’s age of information gluts, and gluttony, where to “know” something is to say that you once googled it and scanned the the top 3 search result headlines, the essay argues the case for deeper experiential learning.
日本語と英語で読まれた日本のエッセイ。

Jun Togawa Suki Suki Daisuki

https://youtu.be/IPGNOKLMOIEVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Jun Togawa Suki Suki Daisuki English Version & Background 戸川純の好き好き大好きの英語版と解説 (https://youtu.be/IPGNOKLMOIE) 戸川純 好き好き大好きTogawa Jun Suki Suki Daisuki Who is Jun Togawa? Jun Togawa was once asked in an interview whether she was an “Idol” or an “artist”. She replied, “would it be bad if I said I …

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Japanese Storage

From my earliest years of going to Japan as a teenager, I was struck by the way that Japanese people used space. Showers & bath units squeezed efficiently into the space of a broom closet, Oshiere storage spaces that are deep yet unobtrusive, multi layered shoe racks. When you’ve got less space to work with …

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Lone Wolf And Cub Author Koike Kazuo Tweets On Life, Death & Sickness Translated

https://youtu.be/GWt2ck0hnKMVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Lone Wolf And Cub Author Koike Kazuo Tweets On Life, Death & Sickness Translated 小池一夫ツイート英訳 (https://youtu.be/GWt2ck0hnKM) Today we’ve translated a series of Tweets by Koike Kazuo – author of various manga and other work including Lone Wolf And Cub/Crying Freeman/Lady Snowblood. The translated Tweets talk about sickness, …

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