J-Word Play: April ’12
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This one may not translate into English so well, but it’s a great pun in Japanese. The question asks “How many yen does it cost to quit smoking?” Much like so many other riddles, to arrive at the correct answer you have to think outside the box. Another way to think of this question could be “What en do you get when you quit smoking?” The answer in that case would be ç¦ç…™ (ãã‚“ãˆã‚“), the word most commonly use for non-smoking, which you may have heard or used yourself at restaurants.
Last school year I heard my vice-principal half-whispering to my principal: “Oh, Amanda? She can do it.” “It” was teaching two out of three junior high school grades without a JTE.   We had gone from three JTEs to two because of students-to-staff proportional downsizing, and it was just too many classes for them to teach. …
It may be the year of the dragon, but Amy Chua, Tiger Mother, is still lingering in the spotlight. Last year, her bestselling book on Chinese parenting, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, created uproar after an excerpt was published in The Wall Street Journal, and angry parents railed against her controversial parenting style. Ms….
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Golden week is coming up. For many of us, that means travel – whether it be to places in Japan we haven’t been before, or to a new destination abroad – there seems to be no better time to travel than in the long, warm spring holiday. Despite the cost that is. As all of…
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So you’re going to take the driving test…
Depending on how many people you’ve talked to or how much of the internet you’ve read, you now fall somewhere between totally sanguine and scared shitless on the Akashi anxiety scale. We can help.