Interesting Etymologies and Origins of Japanese Words (Part 10): (e.g., sori ga awanai, mekoboshi, anagachi)
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The press conference announcing the marriage of Princess Mako and Kei Komuro was a farce of one-sided self-assertion. It has caused a sharp decline in affection for the Imperial family.
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What is “trickle-down economics”? What is its relationship to “Abenomics”?
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Edo period jokes and scary stories (Part 1). Is “foot washing” more important than hand washing?
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What is “economic security”? This is “economic warfare,” and it is an urgent issue facing Japan today!
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How did Prime Minister Kishida attempt to break through the “100 million yen barrier”? We’ll explain it in an easy-to-understand way.
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There are four historical kana spellings for the kanji that are pronounced “chō” using the on’yomi reading: “tefu, teu, chau, and chō”!
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Is the reason there’s no Nobel Prize in mathematics because Nobel’s romantic rival was a mathematician?! Did he lose a fortune to a love letter?
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The Japanese pronunciation of words like “crops” and “agricultural products” is difficult! The difficulty lies in both Romanization and kana notation.
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Interesting seasonal words such as “kotatsu neko” (cat under a heated table), “mogaribue” (a whistle that scares away tigers), “kozokotoshi” (last year and this year), and “uchiiri no hi” (the day of the raid).
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