Archive for the ‘Japan’ Category
How to Butter Up Your Spouse
August 9, 2009
Practice Reading Japanese: Hiragana Times
August 4, 2009
Read online or subscribe by email to stories about Japanese culture written in kanji, hiragana, and English text with Japanese audio. Some of the stories are quite interesting and contain facts not very well covered in English, such as this one about Kido Shunzo and Kyugun I reported earlier.
Japanese General Election 2009
August 1, 2009
General election will be held on August 30. Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has ruled Japan almost continuously for the past 50 years.
Nobuyuki Tsujii (Pianist)
July 26, 2009
“When I was a kid, I once said, ‘I’m blind,’ and my parents went quiet. So I quickly added, ‘But I’m all right because I play the piano,’ to try and console them. It’s my true feeling,” Tsujii said.
Nobel Prize in Literature: Japanese vs Korean Language
July 26, 2009“You all know that Japan is an inferior country.”
