J-Word Play: September ’11
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The riddle asks, “What creature has a lot of hair?” Ok, so we’re thinking about hair words here. What we were looking for was 狼 (ãŠãŠã‹ã¿), wolf. This is because ãŠãŠ can be the reading for 多 (a lot) and 髪 (ã‹ã¿) means hair. So “a lot of hair.”
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This had been the image of Japan in my dreams: a land that looked part cyberpunk and part geisha, a land with cities that rose up from the dark, grey sea in a swirl of neon blinking lights and giant steel buildings, labyrinthine in that each building led unto the next in a uniform fashion….
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This is an article published out of Nara by a JET trying to beat the very same heat that lies over all of Kansai. He’s given us permission to reprint his article in the hopes that his tips can help you too! For some of you, the coming of winter brings gloomy thoughts and a…
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