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AKB x MSN: pop culture curiosities further validated via real news
May, 2014: Two young members of Japanese idol group AKB48 were assaulted by a misguided young man wielding a folding saw during a meet-&-greet publicity appearance. Unsurprisingly, the incident made headline news in Japan…
overused misused abused: sutoikku (stoic)
Urbane Japanese use English words such as stoic in a very socially self-conscious manner, a linguistic affectation conveying an appearance of being well-read or well-traveled; fancy vocabulary as a badge of intelligence or…
you already speak much more Japanese than you realize
A modern derivation of Japanese language exhibiting English influence. Its origins trace to the beginnings of Japanese contact with Western civilization which led to the country’s 1854 “opening” from isolation. Forms of…