Again, sing it! You'll understand these #Japanese words don't sound anything like each other. "×" = often devoiced (whispered). Standard Tokyo Japanese.

Make fun of our L’s and R’s after you master these 5 standard Tokyo #Japanese words that don’t sound anything like each other 😎♩

because I keep seeing this in official comms, I encourage folks to not use Anglo pluralization for Japanese loanwords we do this for all kinds of words! "samurais", "animes", "otakus", etc. should read to you with the same discomfort as "childs", "womans", "leafs", or "foots"

Food in Japan is great except processed meat and cheese so I make my own sausages yes I do! Here’s my home-made 🇬🇧 bangers, 🇮🇪 bangers and mash

Why only Japan has 40 Kit Kat flavors according to this report: - Nestlé's "Think globally, act locally" policy - Popularity of seasonally/locally limited products - Conbinis' quick product replacement cycles - Not pandering to foreign tourists itmedia.co.jp/business/artic…

Whoa for real? マジか

Sunao Tsuboi _ the man Hidankyo says they want to honor in receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. My 2021 The Associated Press Obit, and I did the 2013 interview cited in there, too, but I can't seem to find that online: apnews.com/article/japan-…

The Japanese at the bottom of this sign in Kyoto says, “Those who can read Japanese, please enter.” If they are legit okay with visibly foreign people like JLPT 2 or better Japanese entering, it’s actually not a bad system IMO. If they wrote it in English, they’d get

“You should get married while you’re young! Once you become decently sensible you no longer can.” — Kiki Kirin, Japanese actress (1943-2018)

𝕳𝖆𝖕𝖕𝖞 𝕳𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖔𝖜𝖊𝖊𝖓🎃🕸️🕷️ I love carving pumpkins and these are some of my jack-o’-lanterns from this year and the past

Loving the 🇺🇸 Southern food in Atlanta’s Marietta Diner and Flying Biscuits I think I gained a few pounds 日本戻ったら痩せる🏋️

Terumi Tanaka, representative of 2024 peace laureate Nihon Hidankyo, gave a powerful speech today at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo. With stirring detail he recounted the events he witnessed on 9 August 1945 as a 13-year-old boy living 3 kilometers from the hypocenter of

*Yawn* 金 has been the kanji of the year 4 times already in 2000, 2012, 2016, 2021. All were Olympic years🥇

マクドナルドね🤔

What about when a Japanese user goes uber-polite to ChatGPT with お忙しいところ大変恐縮ですが、よろしくご検討のほどお願い申し上げます。 'I deeply apologize for the inconvenience, but we would greatly appreciate your careful consideration of this matter.' futurism.com/altman-please-…

このインスタアカウント何とかしてくれマジで笑

Nikkei: “Crime rate in Japan is increasing because of foreigners” “Foreigners are abusing our welfare system” are social media-amplified perception, not what the data say nikkei.com/article/DGXZQO…

Bon (odori) Jovi but the choreography comes from legit tradition👘🏮

Muse in Yokohama